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The Puritan Magazine invites writers to submit their works. Each received and accepted submission are compensated with cash Prizes worth more than $25

Submit To Puritan Magazine | More Than $25 Per Submission

The Puritan Magazine invites writers to submit their works. Each received and accepted submission are compensated with cash Prizes worth more than $25. The cash prize also go as far as $250.

The Puritan literary magazine seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

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GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR THE PURITAN MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONS

Puritan magazine submission usually come in various sessions.

Submissions received between Dec. 26 and Mar. 25 are considered for the spring issue, published in early May. 

Those received between Mar. 26 and June 25 are considered for the summer issue, published in late early Aug. 

The Puritan magazine submissions received between June 26 and Sept. 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in Nov. Those received between Sept. 26 and Dec. 25 are considered for the winter issue, published in Feb.

Their publication rates as of Summer 2019 are:

$100 PER TRADITIONAL INTERVIEW, (ONE INTERVIEWER, ONE OR TWO INTERVIEWEES); 

$150 PER ROUNDTABLE INTERVIEW (ONE INTERVIEWER, THREE OR MORE INTERVIEWEES): $150 PER COLLABORATIVE PIECE (COLLABORATIVE REVIEWS, CREATIVE PIECES, ETC, $75 PER COLLABORATOR),

$200 PER ESSAY,

$100 PER REVIEW,

$150 PER WORK OF FICTION, AND

$25 PER POEM (OR PAGE, CAPPED AT $80 FOR POEMS RUNNING FOUR PAGES OR MORE).

Ensure you check back with the literary magazine regularly.

Note:  They can only issue payments using PayPal, Canadian bank e-transfer, or a cheque in the mail. They also pay in CAD. They can pay using Western Union if no other option is available.

Please be advised that due to changes to Western Union transfers made on December 8, 2020, they can no longer send Western Union transfers to Nigeria. 

According to them, this is beyond their control. Please keep this in mind before sending your work.

Regular Puritan magazine submissions are free of charge and should fall under one of five categories:

• Fiction
• essays
• poetry
• Interviews
• and reviews. 

Unless they are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).

 Only e-mail submissions through their online submissions manager are accepted (save those trees for maypoles, or theses).

Send all questions and messages to puritanmagazine@gmail.com

The Puritan Magazine prefers not to publish fiction or poetry by the same writer more than once a year. 

If you have been published in the Puritan literary magazine, please only submit again after a year has elapsed (this guideline does not apply to contests, or non-fiction).

Upon receiving your submission, they will respond with an e-mail confirmation within a few days. You may have to wait a few months to hear back from them on thier final verdict.

 This is standard procedure. Only inquire about your work if you haven’t heard back from us after four months.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please remember to inform them immediately if your work is picked up by another publication.

 Please only submit one story, one review, one interview, one essay, or up to four poems per issue reading period. Any additional work received will be deleted without acknowledgement.

The Puritan Magazine purchases first North American serial rights for published works, reverting back to the author upon publication. They would appreciate a statement of acknowledgement in any reprinted editions.

 The Puritan literary magazine grants permission to anthologists for printing contributors’ work if their whereabouts are unknown.

For all work other than poetry, please abide by the following rules.

•  Leave only one space after periods. Use three periods for an ellipsis … like so. Double-space your work
• Include your name
• Contact information on the first page
• Provide a clear title, and number your pages. Use a no-nonsense font (submissions in Comic Sans, Jokerman, and Papyrus will be cast off immediately). 
• Use proper EM dashes and try to abide by Canadian spelling (and spellcheck, proofread, obsess, etc.). 
• Be consistent in your formatting.

SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR THE PURITAN MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONS

Fiction

According to the Puritan Magazine:

As our mandate describes, feel encouraged to push boundaries. We have diverse tastes; try us out. 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). Stories of high quality and high word counts may be considered for serialization. Please read the fiction in our last two or three issues from our Archive in order to familiarize yourself with the work we’ve published. 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.

Essays

Please include a succinct essay pitch of no more than 250 words in the Cover Letter field. 

Pitches should compel them with daring ideas and urgent, captivating writing.

 If you’ve written the essay, attach your working draft as a Word doc. If you haven’t written it yet, attach a writing sample of published or unpublished non-fiction prose as a Word doc.

Please read recently published essays in their Archive (check their website for this) in order to familiarize yourself with the work they've published and to get a sense of the range of essay lengths and topics.

 Only submit one pitch per submission period.

Poetry

They require you to baffle them, tangle them up, or break their hearts. They’re looking for poems of any length (including sequences and long poems). 

Once again, please familiarize yourself with their last two issues. 

Send up to four poems at a time.

Interviews

They're looking for longer-form interviews that take deep dives in compelling literary questions that push the boundaries of literature and/or build bridges with non-literary art disciplines. 

As a literary magazine, their focus is on the literary arts, but then, they also want to see pieces that expand the literary conversation to engage with the larger dialogues happening in our societies. They seek to see the literary silos broken open.

They 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. 

Check their archives to have more ground knowledge about what they are looking for.

They are open to seeing finished pieces, or hearing ideas. 

To pitch a specific interview or conversation, please contact Interviews Editors E Martin Nolan and Cho Min at puritan.magazine.interviews@gmail.com.

Payment Information:

Traditional Interviews, Narrative Interviews, etc. (one interviewer, one or two interviewees): $100

Roundtable interviews (one interviewer, 3 or more interviewees): $150

Collaborative Pieces (collaborative reviews, creative pieces, etc): $75 per collaborator

Reviews

The reviews section focuses on all genres of CanLit, especially books by marginalized authors, debuts, and those published by small presses. 

Puritan literary magazine are looking for pitches clearly outlining the importance of the book and how you plan to approach the review. 

Typical reviews are 1500-5000 words; we also consider experimental forms. If possible, attach a writing sample and/or links to your work.

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