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The Ex-Puritan Canada's premier online literary magazine committed to publishing the best in new writing.

The Ex-Puritan began in 2007 as The Puritan Literary Magazine, an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays, and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario, and was sold in bookstores across the city. In its early years, The Puritan was Ottawa’s only quarterly prose journal. After a brief hiatus, the magazine returned to publishing, now in the form of an online magazine run fro

m Toronto. Since expanding its mandate to include poetry, reviews, and experimental work, The Ex-Puritan now seeks to publish the best in all forms of writing. If you’re interested in supporting the magazine, check out our Patreon and learn about the perks you can get as a supporter, including feedback on your work and free entry to the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. https://twitter.com/ex_puritan
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Animalia features new fiction from Cooper Skjeie, Ai Li Feng, and Conyer Clayton. You can read their work now: https://e...
16/10/2025

Animalia features new fiction from Cooper Skjeie, Ai Li Feng, and Conyer Clayton. You can read their work now: https://ex-puritan.ca/animalia

Anupa Mistry's essay "Eastbound", from our special issue Animalia, features animals across a backdrop of urban life. Rea...
15/10/2025

Anupa Mistry's essay "Eastbound", from our special issue Animalia, features animals across a backdrop of urban life. Read it now: https://ex-puritan.ca/eastbound

The poets of our Animalia special issue are here to drive you *wild*. This issue features poetry from Terrence Abrahams,...
14/10/2025

The poets of our Animalia special issue are here to drive you *wild*. This issue features poetry from Terrence Abrahams, Summer Farah, Javeria Hasnain, EJ Kneifel, Elizabeth Mudenyo, Bahar Orang, Jane Shi, and Sennah Yee. Read their work now: https://ex-puritan.ca/animalia

"Poets love birds." So says Sanna Wani's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue...
10/10/2025

"Poets love birds." So says Sanna Wani's editor's note ("Marginalia: Cento as Editor’s Note") for our 2025 special issue, Animalia. Did the poets (and the fiction writers and essayists) prove her right? Find out now— the issue is live: https://ex-puritan.ca/animalia

The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new poetry editor, Sanna Wani!Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and trans...
25/09/2025

The Ex-Puritan is proud to introduce our new poetry editor, Sanna Wani!

Sanna Wani is a Kashmiri writer, editor and translator based in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022), winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry. She is the creator and host of the podcast, Poet Talk; a member of the Daybreak Poets Collective; and the Publicity Manager at Between the Lines. She loves poetry, pottery, and her dog, Juniper.

Issue 70 features reviews from Jody Chan ("A Many-Layered Record: A Review of Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s Property Journal") and...
16/09/2025

Issue 70 features reviews from Jody Chan ("A Many-Layered Record: A Review of Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s Property Journal") and Dawn MacDonald ("Story as Elegy in Zane Koss’s Country Music"). You can read what they have to say here: https://ex-puritan.ca/issue-70-summer-2025

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions!This year's winners will be selected by Faith Arkorful (for poetry)...
25/08/2025

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions!

This year's winners will be selected by Faith Arkorful (for poetry) and Iryn Tushabe (for fiction).

In each category, the first place winner will receive $1000 and the runner-up will receive $200. The deadline to submit your work is October 24, 2025!

To learn more about the legacy of Austin Clarke and how to submit your work, visit our website: https://ex-puritan.ca/news/the-2025-austin-clarke-prize-in-literary-excellence-is-open

Iryn Tushabe is a Ugandan-Canadian writer and journalist. Most recently her nonfiction has appeared in The Walrus and in the trace press anthology river in an ocean: essays on translation. Her short fiction has been included in The Journey Prize Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Writers. She was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021, and a 2023 winner of the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Tushabe’s work won the City of Regina writing Award in 2020 and 2024. Everything is Fine Here (House of Anansi, 2025) is her debut novel.

Faith Arkorful's work has appeared in GUTS Magazine, Peach Mag, PRISM International, Brick, Hobart Pulp, Canthius Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and CV2, amongst other places. Her first collection of poetry, The Seventh Town of Ghosts, was nominated for the 2025 Trillium Prize. Faith was born in Toronto, where she still resides.

Announcing our Summer 2025 issue! These works pair well with a hammock, a patio, or the comfort of your air conditioning...
25/08/2025

Announcing our Summer 2025 issue! These works pair well with a hammock, a patio, or the comfort of your air conditioning. Watch this space for contributor features to come, but the full issue is live & ready for your enjoyment: https://ex-puritan.ca/issue-70-summer-2025

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