Issue 72: Winter 2026 Winter 2026 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Issue 72 features fiction from Jowita Bydlowska, Lynne Sargent, and Cassidy Menard: ex-puritan.ca/issue-72-win...

The Boyfriend Experience: A Review of Curtis Garner’s Isaac Read Nirris Nagendrarajah's review of Curtis Garner's Isaac in Issue 72: Winter 2026 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

In our Winter 2026 issue, @nireliofidelio reviews Curtis Garner's novel Isaac. Find "The Boyfriend Experience" and the rest of the issue online now: ex-puritan.ca/the-boyfrien...

Issue 72: Winter 2026 Winter 2026 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Issue 72 features striking essays from Acadia Currah and Lys Granier. Find their work (and the rest of the issue) here: ex-puritan.ca/issue-72-win...

ON NO Explore Jessica Bebenek's multi-media writing project "ON NO" in Issue 72: Winter 2026 of The Ex-Puritan, Then Check out The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

Our Winter 2026 issue features an experimental live performance from Jessica Bebenek, showcased through text, photo, and video. Explore Jessica's work here: ex-puritan.ca/no

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Our Winter 2026 issue features poems from Emily Lu, Steven O. Young Jr., Twoey Gray, Eva Haas, David Anton Jr., and Suzannah Showler. You can read their work here: ex-puritan.ca#poetry

NOW HIRING: PUBLICITY MANAGER Want to manage publicity for a magazine? The Ex-Puritan is now hiring a new Publicity Manager to start in for our Spring 2025 issue. Apply by Wednesday, April 1, 2026.

NOW HIRING: Publicity Manager. Please visit our website to learn more details and how to apply: ex-puritan.ca/news/now-hir...

Our Winter 2026 issue is live! We'll be sharing more over the coming weeks, but you can read the entire issue now: ex-puritan.ca/issue-72-win...

The Ex-Puritan Submission Manager The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.Our current publication rates (as of Fall 2022) stand as: $100 PER INTERVIEW $200 PER ESSAY $100 PER REVIEW $150 PER…

We are seeking inquisitive, timely reviews on upcoming or recently published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, with a particular interest in debuts and books from independent publishers. Learn more & submit your work for our spring issue now: puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

In Issue 71, Casper Orr interviews Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and Sara Black McCulloch interviews Michael DeForge. ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

The hybrid/experimental section of our Fall 2025 issue features "Queer Dance", a performance by Charlie Petch (with ASL interpretation by Gaitrie Persaud/Phoenix The Fire), as well as "music to watch boys to", a narrative video collage by William Dao: ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Our fall 2025 issue features short fiction from Marcel Goh, Danila Botha, and Gary Barwin: ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Issue 71 features essays from Hannah Keziah Agustin and Adam Arca: ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...

"Don't scratch too deep or I'll bleed": Archiving with Austin Read Matthew Monrose's essay "'Don't scratch too deep or I'll bleed': Archiving with Austin" in Issue 71 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize…

In his introductory essay to the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize for Literary Excellence, Matthew Monrose excavates the contradictions of Austin Clarke and bears down on what we can learn from his refusal to "stop scratching." ex-puritan.ca/dont-scratch...

Autumn as a Lo-Fi YouTube Video Read Rhys Owain Williams's poem "Autumn as a Lo-Fi YouTube Video" in Issue 71: Fall 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

For anyone out there who’s still holding on to autumn despite the encroachment of our winter celebrations, I’ve got a new poem published in @ex-puritan.bsky.social’s Fall Issue. Diolch to editor Sanna Wani for choosing it! ex-puritan.ca/autumn-as-a-...

WINNER: "Thousands of Longings Like These" Read the 2025 winner of the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence in Fiction, "Thousands of Longings Like These" by Madeeha Hashmi in Issue 71: Fall 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the res...

"I imagine our faces shining, spreading luminous like the sun in that clearing until the light is all I can see—light that has been there all along..." I can't say enough how incredible this story by Madeeha Hashmi is. Make time for it today! @ex-puritan.bsky.social ex-puritan.ca/thousands-of...

“What We Lose is Synonymous with Death”: A Conversation with Farah Ghafoor Read Summer Farah's interview "'What We Lose is Synonymous with Death': A Conversation with Farah Ghafoor in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary...

for @ex-puritan.bsky.social, I spoke with @farahghafoor.bsky.social about her debut SHADOW PRICE! ex-puritan.ca/what-we-lose...

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

Issue 71 features poems from Yan Zhang, Maryam Ghafoor, @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social, E. M. Palitha Edirisooriya (translated by samodH Porawagamage & Kasun Pathirage), Drew McEwan, and Nicole Boyce. You can read their work at ex-puritan.ca/issue-71-fal...

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Our Fall 2025 issue features reviews of jaz papadopoulos' "i feel that way too" and Mikhail Iossel's "Sentence", written by Janet Pollock Millar and Pamela Hensley respectively: ex-puritan.ca#reviews

Adam Arca's poem "I had to get out" is the 2025 Poetry Runner-Up for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence: ex-puritan.ca/i-had-to-get...

kailash srinivasan's story "You, like" is the 2025 Fiction Runner-Up for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence: ex-puritan.ca/you-like

Hadiyyah Kuma's poem "WALTER" is the 2025 Poetry Winner of the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence: ex-puritan.ca/walter

Madeeha Hashmi's story "Thousands of Longings Like These" is the 2025 Fiction Winner of the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence: ex-puritan.ca/thousands-of...

Issue 71: Fall 2025 Issue 71: Fall 2025 has arrived! This edition​ features yet another incredible array of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction representing the best new and established Canadian writing.

We’re excited to release Issue 71: Fall 2025! Get cozy with vibrant new fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews, along with the winning pieces of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence:

One Way Out Read D.F. McCourt's short story "One Way Out" in Issue 64: Winter 2024 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

14/27... Also at the @ex-puritan.bsky.social is this short story by D.F. McCourt: ex-puritan.ca/one-way-out (It’s cool how many of the Best Canadian Stories writers are in The Ex-Puritan.) #AmReading 💙📚 #BookSky #fiction

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.

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.

Our new special issue, Animalia (guest edited by @sannawani), features fiction from Cooper Skjeie, Ai Li Feng, and Conyer Clayton. Read their work now: ex-puritan.ca/animalia#fic...

Eastbound Read Anupa Mistry's essay "Eastbound" in our special issue Animalia, then check out the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

"The city writhes with the contradictions of human rapacity." –Anupa Mistry's essay "Eastbound", from our Animalia special issue: ex-puritan.ca/eastbound

Our 2025 special issue, Animalia, features new poetry from Terrence Abrahams, @summ.bsky.social, Javeria Hasnain, EJ Kneifel, Elizabeth Mudenyo, Bahar Orang, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, and Sennah Yee. Their work, and the rest of the issue, is live now:

A cover image for The Ex-Puritan's special issue Animalia, featuring brown, antique-looking text over vintage scientific drawings of animals.

"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