CALL FOR CRITICISM
In its spirit of radical inquiry, The Puritan | Frontiers of New English is seeking essays, reviews, interviews and other non-fiction work. This past year has shown that literary criticism in Canada is in dire need of exploding its old boundaries. In fact, we want writing that treats those boundaries as though they were never drawn. We crave proposals, pitches, blog posts, article ideas, and finished pieces. To what degree they are invested, informed, inquisitive, theoretical, formal or personal is up to you.
While The Puritan’s primary focus is on independent, small press publications, featuring both Canadian and international writing, we are also open to investigations of more popular works of literature. In particular, we seek to promote and support the poets and fiction writers we’ve published in our past 24+ issues.
The Puritan now has two separate venues for literary criticism—the magazine proper, featuring longer and more in-depth works, and our blog (ideal for shorter takes and conversations), The Town Crier. Here are some suggestions of what The Puritan is looking for:
- independent or collaborative, co-authored reviews,
- multiple reviews by multiple authors on a single book,
- short “takes” and impressions of a book or of multiple books,
- reflections and personal responses to an author’s work or career,
- revisions and revisits to a previously published piece by yourself or another author,
- interviews with publishers, editors, book designers and writers,
- round-ups of the local literary scene in your town, community or city, and
- round-ups and responses to current literary controversies and discussions.
