Dear Puri-maniacs, After many long months considering our options, deliberating on the future of this journal, we regret to inform you that as of May 1st, 2009, The Puritan is officially out of commission. Various obstacles - including insurmountable financial debt, a dramatic change in location, and the current abysmal economy - have forced The Puritan into permanent hiatus. For those of you who have sent us work, either via e-mail or post - please accept our sincere apologies - we are unable to publish or your fiction. Please go ahead (if you haven't already done so) and submit your stuff elsewhere. For those who have stuck with The Puritan since its ill-timed conception, we thank you for your patience, support, and love. We wouldn't have been able to print our seven issues without you. To the city of Ottawa, its wonderful writers, its intrepid publishers, its passionate lovers of fiction, its brave retailers courteous enough to carry our journal, our copy-editors and co-editors and printers, the fantastic faculty of the University of Ottawa's English Department, the reporters and media who found the time to bother with us, the people across the world who threw in some dollars and bought an issue when we were really down and out, and of course, our amazing friends and supporters who came to our launches, fundraisers, Throwdowns, and other sundry events - THANK YOU forever and ever. Though our hiatus may very well be permanent, there is always the shred of hope that one day we will return, better and richer and more prepared for the tremendous task of maintaining a quarterly print journal. Thank you again, and again. Yours truly & sincerely, Spencer Gordon Tyler Willis (Who are still accepting generous donations to keep the TD Canada Trust goons away ... )

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