The Town Crier
The Town Crier operated as a hub for criticism and commentary, connecting a community of writers, readers, and commentators through social media, and focusing on the interplay of literary opinion in and around the city of Toronto until its closure in February 2021.
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Fiery but from Afar:
Jason Guriel talks to The Puritan's Jess Taylor about community and poetry readership -
“We The North”
How the Raptors "We The North" campaign boasts Toronto in a new light -
Author Notes: Victoria Hetherington
Victoria Hetherington I Have To Tell You Megan Fox Edie Sedgwick Andy Warhol Factory Lou Reed Velvet Underground -
Musicality, Movement, Punch, and Writing as Wrestling
One Question Each for Puritan authors Aisha Sasha John, Nancy Jo Cullen, Angela Hibbs, and David James Brock on their writing. -
Author Notes: philip gordon
Philip Gordon on the poetic properties of Slurpees -
Two Cents More on Trigger Warnings
Nicole Grimaldi discusses trigger warnings in literature as a general courtesy or a form of censorship -
Gilded Pages & Golden Thread:
A discussion and survey of fashion in literature and other trans-media, by Tracy Kyncl -
Author Notes: Andrew Forbes
Andrew Forbes on his story "Jamboree" from The Puritan issue 25, the influence of Ontario's Highway 7 and its small town locales -
“A Book to Defy Authority”
Scholar and poet Ana Luísa Amaral on the effort to return the Three Marias’ daring mixed-genre work to its rightful place in the Portuguese canon. -
HIJ Reading Series: “An Interesting Place in the Middle”
Jay and Hazel Millar on their HIJ reading series in Toronto and its "interesting place in the middle". -
Hugh Garner's Waste No Tears
Hugh Garner's Toronto noir novel Waste No Tears is being reprinted by Ricochet Books -
Pages on Fire
Jaclyn Qua-Hiansen explores how Pages on Fire helps writers fight racism, oppression, and support diversity in Canadian literature Walter Dean Myers
