New Section: Hybrid/Experimental!

The Puritan is thrilled to announce we are expanding our publishing mandate and establishing a new Hybrid Section, edited and curated by multi-media artists William Dao and Rasiqra Revulva!

This section will feature experimental and multi-form work that explores writing in combination with disciplines including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, and video. The possibilities are endless! Submission guidelines can be found at http://puritan-magazine.com/submissions. We encourage submitters to contact Rasiqra and Will at [email protected] with inquiries, particularly if working in media we have not listed.

William Dao is a queer theatre artist, video artist and emerging filmmaker. He is the co-editor of the Hybrid Section at Puritan Magazine. He primarily works as a director and dramaturge but he sometimes performs and writes. He has worked with many theatres across Canada including Soulpepper Theatre, Outside the March, The Shakespeare Company, Buddies in Bad Times, Coal Mine Theatre, House + Body and Urban Ink. In 2021, he co-created a series of short videos titled Bathroom Break for Soulpepper’s Queer Youth Cabaret and also a film titled What Are You Supposed To Be? for the Toronto Fringe Festival. He has also written a short story titled music to watch boys to which was presented as a video art piece at a reading hosted by the Historic Joy Kogawa House and the ArQuives. His instagram is @iwannabewilldao.

Rasiqra Revulva is a disabled queer femme writer, multimedia artist, editor, musician, performer, and SciComm advocate. She is the Head of Publicity and a developer and co-editor of the Hybrid Section at Puritan Magazine. She is also an editor of the climate crisis anthology Watch Your Head: A Call to Action; and one half of the experimental electronic music and arts duo The Databats (Slice Records, Melbourne; Toronto), whose climate crisis-inspired collaboration “The Databats + Subterranea - My World Without You” is now available on Bandcamp. She has published two sold out chapbooks of black-and-white glitch-illustrated poetry titled Cephalopography (words(on)pages press, 2016), and If You Forget the Whipped Cream, You're No Good As A Woman (Gap Riot Press, 2018); and one chapbook of full-colour experimental visual haiku titled Sailor, C'est l'heure (The Blasted Tree, 2021), available in print and online. Cephalopography 2.0 (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) is her award-nominated debut collection. Learn more at @rasiqra_revulva and @thedatabats.