Town Crier Goes on Vacation

It’s a sweltering summer and your faithful Toronto literary arts blog is going on vacation. After this post, we’ll be taking August off to recharge our batteries and come back at it with gusto in September. You can check back here for updates on our Publicity Agent program and our writing contest, but for the most part, you can expect us to be quiet until the start of September.This also marks the day we say goodbye to our tireless associate editor, Kirstie Turco. After proofreading, uploading, and editing hundreds of blog posts since October 2016, she’s moving on to become The Ex-Puritan’s new managing editor. I can’t thank her enough for her commitment to The Town Crier and always bringing a cool head to a crisis. Through countless late-night proofing sessions and uploads, it’s Kirstie who has been responsible for keeping the Crier on time for nearly two years.

We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer while we’re away. In the meantime, we’ll be busy working on our summer issue, guest edited by Eduardo C. Corral and Naben Ruthnum, so get ready for a big issue with great poetry and fiction.

 Don’t forget that the deadline for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence is only two months away! The judges this year are Zoe Whittall (fiction) and Kaveh Akbar (poetry), and the entry fee is only $20. We’ll see you in September!