Issue 44: Winter 2019 has arrived!

Dear Readers, Issue 44: Winter 2019 has finally arrived, and it brings with it an excellent array of fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews for your enjoyment. This issue’s fiction section features “The Upper North” by JR Boudreau and “Naquan” by Nasir Husain, as well as two short stories from the 2018 Thomas Morton Memorial Prize Shortlist: “Coven Covets Boy” by John Elizabeth Stintzi and “Earning Disapproval” by Shashi Bhat. In poetry, check out “I’m Always Here, Except When I’m Not” and “Hawk & Hare” by Ali Blythe, “Replacements” by Alycia Pirmohamed, “For my friends, who save me” by Lily Wang, “love letters to joan of arc” by Kristen Unrau, “After the Consulate” and “Faucet” by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, “Afterlight” and “Sati” by Lauren Peat, “SNOW COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN” by Jane Munro, “The Arctic Tern” by Mike Chaulk, “Raven Takes Wing” by Barbara Tran, “The Illness Factory” and “The Fifth in My Palm” by Nisa Malli, “Ni l’un ni l’autre” by Dominique Bernier-Cormier, “The Ring” by Archana Sridhar, and “ON NOT HAVING A BABY” by Paola Ferrante. In this season’s essays, Maria Eliades discusses the 2016 US presidential election, repatriation, and nostalgia in “There’s No Place Like Home?,” Aeman Ansari talks about arranged marriages, community, traditions, and relationships in “Beti, Are You Married?,” and Mandy Pipher investigates list-format news, social media, and the need for consuming media more meaningfully in  “Butler and the Nature of Resistance.” In the first interview of this issue, E Martin Nolan brings Klara du Plessis, Linzey Corridon, and Alexei Perry Cox together in a collaborative review of Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk.  In the second, Joshua Levy interviews six Canadian publishers to discuss the publication process, what they look for in a manuscript, their submission pet peeves, the role of the editor, and changes in the Canadian publishing industry in the last 20 years. Finally, this issue's reviews feature Erín Moure on Stephen Collis’s Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten  (including a previously unpublished poem by Phyllis Webb) and Kate Siklosi on Tess Liem's Obits. And so, without further ado, The Puritan presents its latest. We hope you enjoy this issue. All the best, The Editors