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Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.

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We're thrilled to share the fiction shortlist for the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence! These pieces were chosen by this year’s fiction judge, Iryn Tushabe.
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers, and stay tuned for the winner, whose poem will be published in our upcoming issue.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We're thrilled to share the poetry shortlist for the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence! These pieces were chosen by this year’s poetry judge, Faith Arkorful.
Congratulations to the shortlisted writers, and stay tuned for the winner, whose poem will be published in our upcoming issue.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"Poets love birds." So says @sannawani.bsky.social's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live: ex-puritan.ca/animalia
A cover image for The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, featuring brown, antique-looking text over vintage scientific drawings of animals.
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new Poetry Editor, Sanna Wani (@sannawani.bsky.social)!

Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry.
September 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...
The photo is an announcement for The Ex-Puritan's 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. The submission deadline is October 24, 2025. First prize: $1000, runner-up: $200. On the left is a photo of poetry judge Faith Arkorful against a purple background. On the right is a photo of fiction judge Iryn Tushabe against a blurred background.
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Announcing our Summer 2025 issue! These works pair well with a hammock, a patio, or the comfort of your air conditioning. Watch this space for contributor features to come, but the full issue is live & ready for your enjoyment: ex-puritan.ca/issue-70-sum...
The image announces publication of The Ex-Puritan's 70th issue, Summer 2025.
August 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We're buzzing to share our Spring issue (Issue 69) with you! Stay tuned for individual contributor features to come, and read all of the pieces on our website now: ex-puritan.ca/issue-69-spr...
Text on a bright green background reading "The Ex-Puritan Issue 69: Spring 2025".
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the new Managing Editor of The Ex-Puritan, Hannah Eiserman! You can learn more about Hannah on her website, hannaheiserman.ca. Please join us in welcoming Hannah to the masthead.
The background of the image is navy blue, and its text reads "Managing Editor Hannah Eiserman", along with The Ex-Puritan's logo. In a circle on the right is a photo of Hannah, who has curly hair and is wearing glasses, looking away from the camera.
April 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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In her essay "The Weight of Air", Caitlin Stall-Paquet contemplates the ways that illness reverberates. Live now in Issue 68: ex-puritan.ca/the-weight-o...
The photo shows Caitlin Stall-Paquet looking at the camera and wearing a cap that reads "Ducks Ltd.". Text in the foreground, from her essay "The Weight of Air", reads: "Suspicion of the invisible lodged itself deep in my tissues."
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Issue 68 features stephanie roberts in conversation with Olive Andrews, discussing stephanie's sophomore collection UNMET, published by Biblioasis. ex-puritan.ca/underpaintin...
The photo shows stephanie roberts, with braids and tortoiseshell glasses, facing toward the camera. stephanie's quote in the foreground, from Olive Andrews' interview with stephanie called "Underpainting the Poem", reads: "What we say is the story that makes us able to live with ourselves. It's clothing. You can take it off at night but desire is a tattoo, it's in your skin and it's undeniable, because the evidence of it is what you are doing, not what you say."
April 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Meryem Yildiz's poem "Creature Comforts" is live in the Ex-Puritan Issue 68. You can read it here: ex-puritan.ca/creature-com...
Pictured is Meryem Yildiz, wearing necklaces and with a middle part, looking toward the camera. In the foreground, text from her poem "Creature Comforts": "i keep falling in love, a little bit, with strangers in tango".
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Read the full text of Sophie Crocker's story "Fury" in Issue 68 of The Ex-Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/fury
The post shows a photo of Sophie Crocker, facing toward the camera, wearing pearls and eyeliner. Text from Sophie's story "Fury" in the foreground reads: “In my hand, a greasy garbage bag of entrails, some of them my own.”
April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Our Winter 2025 issue (Issue 68) is now live! ex-puritan.ca/issue-68-win...

#NewIssue #NewWriting #doubleissue #Masthead #writingcommunity #LiteraryMagazine #LitMagLove
Text reading "The Ex-Puritan Issue 68 Winter 2025" on a neutral background.
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We're reading submissions for our Spring 2025 issue! We welcome fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, interviews, and hybrid/experimental work. Anyone can submit, including emerging writers. Send us your work through Submittable: puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit
Call for submissions for The Ex-Puritan, Issue 69 (Spring 2025). "We want to read your work!" Deadline: April 1.
March 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Introducing our new Publicity Manager: Paula Turcotte (alternate caption: hi, it’s me behind the screen!)

Paula Turcotte loves her dog, your dog, and Raisin Bran. She's thrilled to join the masthead at The Ex-Puritan.
The Ex-Puritan's new Publicity Manager is Paula Turcotte. Paula has short brown hair. She wears a black baseball cap, a white long-sleeve, denim overalls, and she is standing in front of a white wall.
February 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM