Similarly, the previously prose-only literary magazine The Puritan has also undergone a recent shift in form AND content. Form-wise, they are now internet-based and have THE NICEST website; content-wise, they are now accepting poetry. In fact, they are on the hunt for submissions for their next issue.
In their latest issue, I must draw your attention to a young Canadian writer whose work never ceases to get under my hairline in a way that is both uncanny and exquisite. Rebecca Rosenblum writes stories about people who take an impulse and make it a decision. Her characters, on the search for human connections in a world of silent social taboos, choose, more often than not, to take the leap from thought to action. Rosenblum has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Before doing anything else today, you should read her short short story "If This" in The Puritan.
