Issue 31: Fall 2015 Is Online!

Readers, Writers, Friends! Just as the temperature really begins to drop, we’re back with Issue 31: Fall 2015: an issue packed with hours of reading to see us through another (American) Thanksgiving and to the end of 2015. Before we highlight the fantastic works found here, rest assured that the two winning pieces from our Annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence—judged by Ian Williams and Miriam Toews—will be added to the issue on Saturday, November 28, and announced this Friday, November 27 at our annual year-in-review celebration, Black Friday. That reminds us—are you coming? We’re featuring ten stellar readers (all Puritan authors from the past year!), an amazing raffle draw to some of the country's best lit journals, and some special treats. You can read all about Black Friday here. Now, on to the fall issue: a truly bountiful spread. Feast your eyes on brand new fiction by Teresa Milbrodt and Helen Polychronakos. The dig in to poems by Stephanie Warner, David Ishaya Osu, Concetta Principe, Kayla Czaga, Canisia Lubrin, Adèle Barclay, Cassidy McFadzean, dalton derkson, Carolye Kuchta, John Wall Barger, Angela Hibbs, Ariel Gordon, Stacey Gruver, Noah Burton, Lisa Bellamy, Jennifer Houle, Brenda Schmidt, Claire Kelly, Dan Rosenberg, Ali Sohail, and Elana Wolff. But make sure you save room for our top-notch non-fiction: Add a helping of Cian Cruise’s essay “John Grisham, Moral Revolutionary,” then loosen your belts: E Martin Nolan interviews poet Erina Harris in “And Always: Surprise,” and Jason Freure talks shop with fiction writer Kevin Hardcastle in “Simcoe County Noir.” As a finishing touch, savour Neil Surkan’s review of The Exiles’ Gallery by the late Elise Partridge, and Jeremy Hanson-Finger’s (very personal) review of What You Need by Andrew Forbes. Issue 31—along with our imminent Black Friday celebration, and its big reveal of our 2015 Morton winners—brings another year of publishing to a close. If we include our hiatus from 2008 to 2009, we’re now on our ninth year of publishing. This fact astounds no one more than us. But this past year has certainly been one of our very best, and for that we have all our amazing writers, readers, editors, agents, and associates to thank: we couldn’t make The Puritan happen without the help of dozens of staff, many hundred writers, and thousands of readers. For that, we’re truly thankful.