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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.” (fiction) – editors Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug (Issue 43.2)
3) Aloysius Blatt “Saint Dragàn of the Blessed Egg” (fiction) (Issue 43.3)
4) Stephanie Tamagi “Fur Hat” (fiction) – editor Randall Perry (Issue 43.2)
5) Catherine Graham Three poems (3 of 6; 3 being maximum allowed) – editor Ayesha Chatterjee (Issue 43.4)
6) Lisa Richter The Anna Margolin Suite (3 of 4) – editor Micheline Maylor (issue 43.2)
7) Patrick Lane Three Poems (from This Being Alive section) (Issue 43.3)
We wish you all best of luck – and we are very proud to have published your work in our pages.
From Katie Zdybel: “Wow! What wonderful news! Thank you Barry and Michael as well as Janet Somerville and the whole Exile team. It’s a real honour to be published by you and now this too. Thanks so much and a huge congratulations to all the other writers as well. Good luck to all!”
From Catherine Graham: “Thrilled to receive this news! Thank you for the submission. I’m honoured to have my poems published in EXILE Quarterly and to be included with everyone below. With gratitude to you and the EXILE team and my wonderful editor, Ayesha Chatterjee. Best wishes to all the nominees!”
From Stephanie Temagi: “It is a tremendous honour and thrill to be included in these submissions. I appreciate it more than I can say. And a thousand thanks to you, Randall, and the entire EXILE team for your essential work supporting artists, especially during this trying time.”
From Lisa Richter: “I’d like to echo the previous sentiments, I am absolutely thrilled to be on this list of brilliant writers and to be nominated for this award!!! Thank you so much to my amazing editor, Micheline Maylor, for choosing to profile my poetry in her Poet Laureate’s Pick in EXILE Quarterly issue 43.2, which is a stunningly beautiful issue. I am so grateful to have my work featured in this journal, and to be in such exceptional company! Thank you so much, publisher and creative director Michael Callaghan, for your care and attention, and your dedication to publishing both emerging and established writers. Congratulations, everyone!
From our 2019 publishing year, our authors who received an Honourable Mention:
Doyali Islam, A Fine Line (poetry) – editor Anne Michaels (Issue 42.2)
Gord Grisenthwaite, “How Mosquito Got His Name” (fiction) – editors Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith (Issue 43.1)
From our 2018 publishing year, our author who received an award:
Gold Medal Winner: Diana Svennes-Smith, “Stranger In Me” (fiction) – editor Seán Virgo (Issue 40.4)
