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The Puritan began in 2007 as an independently funded print journal dedicated to publishing fiction, essays, and interviews in Ottawa, Ontario. Since expanding its mandate to include poetry and reviews, The Puritan now seeks to publish the best in all forms of writing.
Vibe
Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 10000
Max pieces: 1
Length is up to you, but a story over 10,000 words will only be considered if it is of exceptional quality (and nothing over 12,000 words, please). Only send one story at a time, unless you are writing flash fiction (or stories under 500 words), in which case you can send up to three.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 3
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Please include a succinct description of no more than 250 words in the Cover Letter field, along with a full working draft of your essay as a Word doc. The essays should compel us with daring ideas and urgent, captivating writing. We are especially interested in work by LGBTQ2S+ writers, BIPOC writers, and writing from other marginalized folks.
Poetry
Max pieces: 4
Hybrid
The Puritan seeks ongoing submissions of hybrid, experimental, multi-form work for our new Hybrid section. This section will explore writing combined with practices including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, video and anything else you can think of!
Video
Max pieces: 1
For audio, video, or mixed-media submissions, send a viewable link to one file up to 5 minutes in length.
Game
No specific limitations
Art
Max pieces: 5
Audio
Max pieces: 1
For audio, video, or mixed-media submissions, send a viewable link to one file up to 5 minutes in length.
Photography
Max pieces: 5
Interview
We welcome a wide range of forms such as traditional one-on-one conversations, roundtable discussions, narrative thought-pieces, critical engagements with a text, creative exchanges (visual, literary, etc), and more. We’d like you to surprise us. If you look at our archives, you’ll get a sense of the range and depth we are looking for—though we are always looking for new and fresh approaches. We are open to seeing finished pieces, or hearing ideas. Get at us. To pitch a specific interview or conversation, please contact Interviews Editor Poonam Dhir at puritan.magazine.interviews@gmail.com.
Fiction
Max words: 10000
Max pieces: 1
Length is up to you, but a story over 10,000 words will only be considered if it is of exceptional quality (and nothing over 12,000 words, please). Only send one story at a time, unless you are writing flash fiction (or stories under 500 words), in which case you can send up to three.
Flash rules
Max words: 500
Max pieces: 3
Nonfiction
Max words: 5000
Max pieces: 1
Please include a succinct description of no more than 250 words in the Cover Letter field, along with a full working draft of your essay as a Word doc. The essays should compel us with daring ideas and urgent, captivating writing. We are especially interested in work by LGBTQ2S+ writers, BIPOC writers, and writing from other marginalized folks.
Poetry
Max pieces: 4
Hybrid
The Puritan seeks ongoing submissions of hybrid, experimental, multi-form work for our new Hybrid section. This section will explore writing combined with practices including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, video and anything else you can think of!
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2006 | Canada
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Sanchari Sur
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
29
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
100 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/100 days
Fastest response time
1 days
Slowest response time
225 days
