Interviews - Summer 2026
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Thank you for considering The Ex-Puritan for your interview.
We are looking for long-form interviews that deeply engage our readers, examine literary works, ask compelling questions, and challenge the boundaries of literature. Our editorial focus is on contemporary literary work, but we are also interested in pieces that incorporate other disciplines and contemporary topics of conversation.
We especially want to feature interviews & conversations with traditionally underrepresented writers. These include emerging writers of all ages, folks who are traditionally marginalized, Indigenous, Black and racialized writers, 2SLGBTQQIPAA+ writers, non-binary & gender nonconforming writers, disabled & chronically ill writers and folks affected by structural inequality.
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. Please read our past issues to get a sense of what we publish—though we are always looking for new approaches. We are interested in unconventional, compelling ideas. Surprise us!
You are welcome to submit interviews, or pitches that are thoughtful, detailed and less than 250 words. If you are submitting a completed piece, please submit it titled, double-spaced in 12-point font, in the 3500-word range, including a short introduction and bios. Feel free to include links to previous interviews you have published. Please only send one interview/pitch at a time; note that it must be previously unpublished, and we will not publish the same author more than once per year.
We do our best to respond to all submissions within four months. If you have not received a response within that timeframe, we encourage you to follow up.
Let’s collaborate!
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Please Note: All Austin Clarke Prize for Literary Excellence entries must be accompanied by a payment of $20; however, this category is free of charge! You also have the option of giving The Ex-Puritan a tip of $3, should you wish to contribute to the overall costs of running the magazine. But thanks for your submission regardless!
If submissions have been disabled on this category, it's because we've reached our monthly limit. We can only accept a limited number of no-fee submissions each month. You can either submit to one of our fee submissions categories or wait until we reopen on the 1st of the next month. All of our submissions are considered equally.
Open until June 25