The Schism Issue of The Ex-Puritan is Here!

A Memory of YouWe are thrilled to share the Schism Issue of The Ex-Puritan!

This issue is guest-edited by Puneet Dutt; read her introduction to the issue here!

The fiction section features "The Quiet Room" by Nikoletta Gjoni, "The Salesgirl" by Andleeb Shadani, "Dirty Fish" by Yukti Narang, "Duct Tape" by Manahil Bandukwala, and "The Garden" by Conyer Clayton.

In the hybrid section, check out "San Andreas Fault: A Collaboration" by Ashwini Bhat and Forrest Gander and "DEATH TO ALL DARLINGS" by Victoria Mbabazi.

Over in poetry, read: "The Mirror World" by Jose Hernandez Diaz, "ESCAPING THE BELLIPHONIC, OR WHAT TO SAY WHEN HE SHRIEKS, CURRY GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY" by Salma Hussain, "My Daughter Asks Me to Write an Honest Poem" and "What's New" by Todd Dillard,  "Off the Grid" by Mathieu Cailler, "ratchet up to reconsider" and "handle with care" by Ellen-Chang Richardson, "Ready-made Art" by Nnadi Samuel, "(In)divisible" by Ana Reisens, “My Children Draw a Line Down My Body” by Alice White, "Almost" by Bethany Jarmul, "James Snow Triptych" by Phillip Crymble, "How to Love a Monster" by Nancy Huggett, "Self-portrait as a Dissected Frog" by Ashish Kumar Singh, "Adventure / Ars Poetica" by Amorak Huey, “Four Teaspoons to One Quart” by Susan Robertson, "Episodic Tremor and Slip" by Lorne Daniel, "The Knight and the Page Debate their Life’s Work" by Frances Boyle, "SHORING" by Claire Farley, "road tolls" by Kerry Rawlinson, "THE BURY" by Kym Cunningham, "My meds alarm" by Ewen Glass, "Human Elegy" by Michael Akuchie, "Frozen Beach Eruptions" by EG Cunningham, "The Dark" by Adedayo Agarau, "In the morning / they wake me" and "I walk out / with my papers into the rain" by Jila Mossaed (translated by Nicola Vulpe), "A Memory of You" by Devon Neal, "Horde" by John McCullough, "Ray" by Marshall Bood, "Nostalgia" by Jane Zwart, "Marginalia" by Terry Trowbridge, "Making Allowances" by Laurie Koensgen, "Death" by Ann Chinnis, "Ways to not forget" by Jayant Kashyap, “life on the hyphen” by Daniel Suter, "The Death of Bands of Rain" by Raymond Sewell, "The Only Time I Get the Last Word is in My Poems" by Courtney Bates-Hardy, "Axolotls" by Pamela Mosher, and "Cut to Exist" by Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal.

In essays, read "Disability" by Mrityunjay Mohan, "Monsters" by Shantell Powell, “What in the World is Happening in Nigeria?: Adedayo Agarau on the Recent Explosion of Nigerian Poetry on the World Stage" by  Adedayo Agarau, "Lemons" by Allison Field Bell, "The Place Between the Stars" by CMarie Fuhrman, "Stories Within the Prayer" by Rye Orrange, "you may know me by my shell" by Mallory Miles, "Reconstructing the Deconstruction" by Marasha Love, and "A Veterinarian of Lines" by Dorothy Ellen Palmer.

The reviews section features a review of Yilin Wang's The Lantern and the Night Moths by Justin Ancheta.

The art section (a first for this mag!) includes "Trauma/No More Room" by Michele Anne-Marie Dickson and "Five Images" by Jin-me Yoon.

Thank you so much to Puneet Dutt and these talented contributors for this wonderful issue!