Runner Up: City Boy
The urge to piss had made its way to the very edge of Ryan’s body.
Issue 43: Fall 2018
Fiction Prize
Winner: Summer
At first, the wood on the doorframe was cool against Jael’s ear.
Poetry Prize
Winner: Losing Sanction
Even masterpieces have their moments.
Runner Up: Folderol
It’s fitting—this remedy’s alias sounds like a brand of prescription drug.
Fiction
The Dementia Games
The Dementia Games is what we called it, or what I called it at least, once, in a text I sent to Michael a few days before we converged in our hometown for an annual reunion with our father and extended family.
Excerpt From I can't get you out of my mind: A book of lies, sex, love, and Artificial Intelligence
Read an excerpt from Marianne Apostolides's forthcoming novel I can't get you out of my mind in Issue 43: Fall 2018 of The Puritan.
The Roads We Choose: A Social Media Mystery in Four Acts
Read Mark Budman's short story "The Roads We Choose: A Social Media Mystery in Four Acts" in Issue 43: Fall 2018 of The Puritan.
Poetry
Wilderness//Kingdom
God didn't make me a painter so much as a lover / of them, the ache to possess what lies / within the frame
Essays
A Focus on Facts: The Value of Nonfiction Conferences for Literary Nonfiction Writers
Someplace around Leominster, Mass., my fellow drivers began to acquire the characteristics for which the state is known.
Pine and Sparkle in the Moonlight: On Rhythm and Grace in Miriam Toews
Of all that makes the prose of Miriam Toews intoxicating, I’d argue the basic building block of her talent is in her rhythm
Two Truths and a Lie
In my first undergraduate fiction workshop, our professor had us play Two Truths and a Lie
Interviews
“To Find Our Place”: In Conversation with Négar Djavadi
Read Lisa Mullenneaux's interview with Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover, in Issue 43: Fall 2018 of The Puritan. Then, check out our writing contest!
Reviews
A Human Is Not a Remora: A Review of Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success
Hedge-fund managers are like remoras—those fish that attach themselves to whales and hitch a ride
Getting Off on the Sludge: A Review of Catherine Fatima’s Sludge Utopia
Read Margeaux Feldman's review of Catherine Fatiman's Sludge Utopia in Issue 43: Fall 2018 of The Puritan and then check out our short story contest.
Slipstream Poetics: A Review of Jeff Latosik's Dreampad
Read Mark Grenon's review of Jeff Latosik's Dreampad in Issue 43: Fall 2018 of The Puritan and then check out our poetry contest.
