Issue 33: Spring 2016 Is Sprouting Up Everywhere!

Dear Friends, We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Issue 33: Spring 2016—a fragrant blast of brand-new fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews, and supplementary features that will invigorate even the most allergic readers. But this is no ordinary issue! Number 33 also sees the launch of our revamped, renewed website, making navigating and enjoying the work found here all the more enjoyable—and user friendly. As usual, we start with fiction: sound new short stories by writers Natalie Morrill, Ellie Sawatzky, Adrian McKerracher, and Mark Paterson. We’ve then got a fabulous selection of poetry: all-new work by Matthew Tierney, Lisa Grove, Julie Eliopoulos, Anna Yin, Paul Vermeersch, Bardia Sinaee, Tanis MacDonald, JC Bouchard, Klara du Plessis, Lisa Richter, Trina Burke, David Alexander, Kelle Groom, Sue Chenette, JM Francheteau, Jeremy Valentine Freeman Ganem, Stephen Brockwell, and Christine Minnery. Next, we’ve got Brent van Staalduinen’s great essay, “Washed (Or, the Cleanest I Might Ever Be).” The Spring Issue features three sterling interviews with writers both established and still forging their careers. Be sure to read E Martin Nolan’s in-depth discussion with Rosemary Sullivan and Jeff Parker, Eileen Wennekers’s fascinating talk with Liz Howard, and Myra Bloom’s insightful conversation with Guillaume Morissette. The issue’s capped off with four commendable works of criticism. Please explore John Nyman’s look at the “exaggerated privilege” of Andy McGuire’s Country Club (Coach House), John Stintzi’s examination of Eric Jarosinski’s Twitter-feed-turned-book Nein. A Manifesto (House of Anansi), Jennifer Quist’s turn at the “elegant convergence” of Rhonda Douglas’s Welcome to the Circus (Freehand Press), and Laura Ritland’s three-part exploration of Rachel Rose’s “fierce and musical” Marry & Burn (Harbour Publishing). Here, the standard issue ends—and our sixth Supplementary Feature begins! Phoebe Wang’s “Inheritances” Supplement explores, via short story, poem, drama, graphic art, essay, and interview, the various ways writers sustain complicated relationships with their literary inheritances. The Spring 2016 Supplement features short stories by Nicole Chin, Napatsi Folger, and Cora Siré, new poetry by Chuqiao Yang, Emily Izsak, Doyali Islam, Annick MacAskill, and Sugar le Fae, a work of literary criticism by Terrence Abrahams, a sequence of graphic art by Laura Kenins (the first to be featured in an issue of The Puritan), an extended dramatic dialogue by Aurora Stewart de Peña, and two great interviews: Joanne Leow’s talk with Madeleine Thien and Denise Chong, and Eliot Gilbert’s conversation with Chad Campbell. That’s it for Issue 33: Spring 2016 and the “Inheritances” Supplement. We hope you enjoy both the work found within, as well as the new digs. It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally done our spring-cleaning, you might say—and the results are gorgeous.