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The Exile Writers Series ~ December 18, 2022

An afternoon of five authors reading. Free Admission. 1:00-4:00 (kitchen opens at 1:00) – come early to enjoy a bite and drink and friendly conversation…Readings begin 2:15. Supermarket Restaurant: 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto (in Kensington Market: half block south of College Street TTC). Kate Story launches her November collection of short fiction Ferry Back the Gifts. […]

Over $150,000 awarded to Canadian Writers! 

·  In November 2022 we will open to writers the new The Nona Heaslip $10,000 Short Fiction Competition and Award in memory of Morley Callaghan (this will keep a great tradition going after the end of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award in 2021). ·  Year Nine of The Ruth and David Lampe $3,000 […]

Download Issues of EXILE Quarterly, Volume 44

Download a 72dpi spread-page version of 2021 issues 44.1, 44.2, 44.3 and 44. (pdf.zip files) Issue 44.1 (33.1MB) Issue 44.2 (20.1 MB) Issue 44.3 (26.6MB) Issue 44.4 (25.1 MB) All content – no advertising. We are unlike any other literary and visual arts publication. “EXILE: One of the Great North American Magazines.” —Joyce Carol Oates […]

Exile’s nominations for 2020 National Magazine Awards (presented in 2021)

From our 2020 publishing year we are pleased to announce the seven authors and their handling editors who we have submitted to the National Magazine Awards (all issues can be purchased from our site): 1) Katie Zdybel “Honey Maiden” (fiction) – editor Barry Callaghan (Issue 43.4)2) Sheung-King “You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.” […]

Bawaajigan Book Launch

Bawaajigan: Stories of PowerSeven AuthorsThree mini-sets of Live MusicFree Admission        Join us for a Celebratory Book Launch at the Centre for Social Innovation720 Bathurst Street, Toronto (one block south of Bloor/from Bathurst station)* fully accessible / gender neutral bathrooms * Tuesday, December 3rd6:30–10:00Readings begin 7:15 Traditional Bannock from Pow Wow caféand Refreshments served after […]

Carter V Cooper (CVC) Short Fiction Competition – sponsored by Gloria Vanderbilt

Exile’s $15,000 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition. Year Nine submissions: March 15, 2019 to September 16, 2019 (postmarked).Download guidelines/form here: CVC9 Entry Form 2019 For details on this award, and our Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry competition: www.exilequarterly.com/poetry-and-fiction-competitions/

Sean Moreland: EXILE Quarterly 42.2 – “As Never Bird Sang Before” a reading

“The sirens outside like cries of a prehistoric predatory bird. Winter tensed, afraid they were coming here, for her mother, but the sirens soon passed, a hush hanging in their wake. “They had been closely side-by-side for countless hours now. Winter in the chair, leaning in a low brood, her mother in the bed, pressed […]

William John Wither: EXILE Quarterly 42.2 – “The Bulbous It With No Eyelids” a reading

“The glue on her alarm clock held as she turned it off; its spirit level pooled to one side as it passed the point of silence. As she leaned up, she leaned back so as to not fall into the distant corner of the room. The waxing angle left almost nothing shifted. Everything had been […]