Runner Up: American Standard of Perfection
When Jack built that first hutch, Laurie didn’t stop him.
Issue 39: Fall 2017
Fiction Prize
Winner: Hidden Fruit
Read the winner of this year's Morton Prize for Fiction, "Hidden Fruit" by Madhur Anand, then check out next year's writing contest!
Poetry Prize
Winner: Unpredictable Intervals
The Long Now Foundation’s ongoing art installation, a 10,000-year clock thrust into the limestone cliffs of Snake Range amidst bristlecone pines, testament to our experimental temporal rhythms.
Runner Up: This Little Girl Goes to Burning Man
A Leave No Trace Ethic is very simple: leave the place you visit the same as or better than you found it.
Fiction
Insta
Read Kelsey Robbins Lauder's story "Insta" from Issue 39: Fall 2017 of The Puritan, then check out our fantastic short fiction contest!
Poetry
Theo’s Father’s Flower Farm
Fragile nodes / elongated and slender
Essays
Biographical Details
If you go back a few pages on The Puritan's blog, The Town Crier, to what was published this summer, you’ll see several posts about the CanLit canon, post-truth politics, and post-identity literature.
Leaving Istanbul
When the coup attempt happened on July 15th, 2016, I was in Greece.
Interviews
“It’d Be Hard to be Friends with Anyone”: An Interview with Pasha Malla
Read Amy Oldfield's interview with Pasha Malla in Issue 39: Fall 2017 of The Puritan, then check out our fantastic poetry and short story contests!
“Readers will Feel Somewhat Torn”: An Interview with Martha Baillie
Martha Baillie’s most recent novel, If Clara, was published in Canada by Coach House Books in 2017, and will be published in France by Actes Sud in 2018. Her previous novel, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel (PedlarPress, Tin House, Leméac, and Actes Sud) was an Oprah Editors’ pick.
Reviews
Other Gates: A Review of Nick Mount's Arrival
Although not every reader will have the same experience reading Nick Mount’s Arrival: The Story of CanLit, anyone with an interest in the “CanLit Boom” is sure to find it an enjoyable read.
No Lack of Ghosts: A Review of Shane Rhodes’ Dead White Men
Settler Canadian literature has a long legacy of legitimizing the state’s colonial project by deploying various rhetorical strategies, including blatantly racist depictions of Indigenous people, indigenization of the settler through romanticized accounts of pioneer life, and erasure of Indigenous presence in revisionist fantasies of a bicultural (English and French) national heritage.
“The Terrible Bloom Of What We Planted”: Three Canadians Confront Israel/Palestine
Recently, there has been a spate of books published in Canada, both fiction and non-fiction, that take the communal mythos of Israel—whether it’s the kibbutz or the citizen’s army—as their subject matter.
