Our new special issue, Animalia (guest edited by @sannawani), features fiction from Cooper Skjeie, Ai Li Feng, and Conyer Clayton. Read their work now:

"The city writhes with the contradictions of human rapacity." –Anupa Mistry's essay "Eastbound", from our Animalia special issue:

Our 2025 special issue, Animalia, features new poetry from Terrence Abrahams, @summabis, Javeria Hasnain, EJ Kneifel, Elizabeth Mudenyo, Bahar Orang, @pipagaopoetry, and Sennah Yee. Their work, and the rest of the issue, is live now:

"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://t.co/r8ViKyBdZQ

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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.

“When he looked in the mirror all he could see was the vague whiteness of her body beside him, her pale skin glowing a little in the dark.” –@Elliott_Gish, from "In Glass"

“Beyond the trees lay an ocean of rubble, as though a giant had sneezed and their small corner of the world had come tumbling down.” –Joyce Li, from "The Transmigration of Rabbits"

“There were five weeks left of camp, 35 sun-drenched days and moon-spilled nights, and we weren’t going to waste a single one of them.” –@aaronkreuter, from "Shimon's Trial":

Jody Chan reviews Amy Ching-Yan Lam's Property Journal in Issue 70 of The Ex-Puritan:

Dawn MacDonald reviews Zane Koss's Country Music in Issue 70 of The Ex-Puritan:

“I’ve been collecting multiplicities, chucking light into myself to see what catches fire” –from "Everyone is Sleeping", one of Ezra M. Serra's two poems in Issue 70:

“If there is no friction / the meteor is invisible” –Raoul Fernandes, from the poem "Strike Anywhere":

“Notes on contributor: lives with his wife in the traditional territory of white sheets and little apples, explores connection to land through beadwork, writing.” –Sadie McCarney, from "Alterbiographies":

“I live in a house of almost / that is not mine.” –Stella Wong, from the poem "Complex conjugates":

"This pregnancy, this nine-month prevention, teaches me that getting to the heart of anything is drifting there, when all time does is mimic itself and there is always something you are after." –Alexandra McKay, "Water Bird"

"I was heading towards Museum Station when I noticed that someone had spray painted an 'r' over the 'Welcome to Queen's Park' sign to read 'Welcome to Queer's Park.' Huh, I thought. Someone said the quiet part out loud."–Vivian Zhi, from "Queer's Park":

In Issue 70 of The Ex-Puritan, Katherine Abbass interviews Elise Levine about her newest collection, Big of You:

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: https://t.co/JNGDquJh1t

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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://t.co/IVz7HAH8Ui

“The poems question what it could look like to build a world worth living in.” -Amanda Proctor reviews Natalie Lim's Elegy for Opportunity: