THE PURITAN: FRONTIERS OF NEW ENGLISH
The Puritan is an online, quarterly publication based in Toronto, Ontario committed to publishing the best in new fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews.
The Puritan seeks, above all, a pioneering literature. Work featured here may push toward the symbolic frontier, challenging limitations and forging into previously unexplored aesthetic territory. But it may also revisit and revitalize traditional forms. The Puritan embraces work wherever it lands on the conceptual spectrum, so long as it is original, intelligent, and engaging.
So, pull up a chair, crack open the latest issue, and stay a while.
LITERARY CONTEST
The Puritan is proud to announce Canada's newest literary contest! The Inaugural Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence recognizes the best in fiction and poetry for 2012. The winner in each field will receive a generous prize package including monetary compensation as well as a collection of merchandise from some of Canada's most celebrated publishers. The winning entries will also appear in The Puritan's upcoming end-of-the-year Best-Of Print Anthology. Be the first to pin the longest literary prize title in Canada onto your list of accolades. Brave the frontier today!
Bounties
Fiction: $650/ Poetry: $350
Cost per submission: $10
Fiction up to 12,000 words / Poetry up to 3 pages
Multiple submissions accepted
Visit our submissions page for more information!
Issue 16, Winter, 2012 has arrived!
Never-before-seen poetry, fiction, reviews, and an interview, plus a fresh, new look. Check it out here! Click the corners or use the arrows to flip pages. Press the (i) key on your keyboard, or click the index button at the bottom right to jump to a story. If you see an audio icon in a story, click it to hear the author read a passage.
FINAL REMINDER!
Hurry up! The cutoff for Issue 17: Spring 2012 is March 15.
In typical fashion, we plan to release our next issue at the end of the season it claims to represent. So, we're opening our pod-bay doors to submissions of fiction, poetry, reviews, recipes, and interviews. Check out our submission guidelines for more information.
Also, we're open to the idea of considering your artwork for upcoming covers. Potential covers should reflect the general visual theme of our current issue's cover and our wonderful website.
New submission format
The Puritan has a new submission format. To make things more convenient for everyone, please submit all work directly through the website. Visit the submissions section for details. All submissions sent to our e-mail address will be ignored.
The Puritan: Something You Should Know About
Paul Vermeersch recently included The Puritan as one of his "Four Online Canadian Literary Journals You Should Know About" over at Open Book Toronto. With ditch, the poetry that matters, Joyland, a hub of short fiction, and Forget Magazine as the other three, it looks like we're in good company!
The Puritan is a mighty small mag!
At least, according to The Literary Type, the blog of The New Quarterly.
Check out the interview here.
Back issues don't buy themselves!
For the discerning connoisseur of literary fiction, or the collector of fine rarities - we're opening our archives to you. That's right - we're selling our back issues at rock bottom prices. E-mail us for more details at puritanmagazine [at] gmail [dot] com. Veteran and senior discounts available.
