FRESH FROM THE PRINTER 🌸 Join us on Sunday, April 26 at 8pm at the Ship Pub (265 Duckworth St., St. John’s, NL) for the issue launch of our BRAND NEW Paragon 11! Get ready for a fabulous night of readings from featured readers from the issue! This event is FREE to attend!

LAUNCH READERS! Mercy Alberta is a poet, artist, & folklorist from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her 2025 folklore MA @memorialu.bsky.social thesis featured a poetry collection: She Carries Curses. She has work in NZ-based literary magazine A Fine Line. Mercy is a co-founder of Low Tide poetry collective.

LAUNCH READERS! Hannah Jenkins is an NL author, artist, & library worker. She was 2022/2023 writer-in-residence at the Corner Brook Public Library. She is author of The Birds Come Back in the Spring (Engen 2022) & The Naiads. She has work in @riddlefence.bsky.social @prisminternational.bsky.social.

LAUNCH READERS! Michelle K. Woodfine (she/they) is a St. Johns born writer whose work has won the Arts and Letters 2024 poetry prize and has been previously published in the literary magazine, Horseshoe Journal.

LAUNCH READERS! Kristina Yurchenko is a poet with an English & History BA @stthomasu.bsky.social & an English MA @memorialu.bsky.social. She received the 2024 Robert Clayton Casto Prize for poetry. Kristina is drawn to writing about complex relationships & life in Newfoundland.

LAUNCH READERS! Aaron Tucker is author of Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social) & a forthcoming academic monograph, Flexible Faces (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social). He's Assistant Professor in English @memorialu.bsky.social & Program Director of the Creative Writing Diploma.

LAUNCH READERS! @susieisnothere.bsky.social is a queer writer & @riddlefence.bsky.social editor in Harbour Grace, NL, with work in @geistmag.bsky.social @prisminternational.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social. Vigil won 2025 Winterset & Alistair MacLeod & was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall award.

LAUNCH READERS! Jean-Luc Matte is a lover of history, the outdoors, & the human condition. He works as a Heritage Interpreter in Bonavista Bay. He spends his time browsing boggy brambles and growing out his antlers best he can. He is currently working on a creative writing diploma.

LAUNCH READERS! Amanda Marie Hull lives in CBS, NL. She's an English PhD @memorialu.bsky.social. An imaginative eco-socialist, she loves Sunday brunch with friends & metaphorical rabbit holes. She's been published in Newfoundland & Labrador Studies & @riddlefence.bsky.social.

LAUNCH READERS! Emma Cole is a writer, producer, designer, & anarchist bookseller from St. John’s, NL. Her writing has won awards from Kiwanis, Arts & Letters, & Writers NL, & been featured by CBC, estuary Arts Magazine, @riddlefence.bsky.social, & @toothcutjournal.bsky.social. emmacharlottecole.com

LAUNCH READERS! Katherine Abbass (she/her) is a queer writer of Lebanese descent. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Room, Malahat Review, THIS, & Canthius. She won the 2021 @riddlefence.bsky.social Fiction Contest. She is pursuing her MA @memorialu.bsky.social

We’re THRILLED to share our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations 🧡 If you haven’t read these incredible pieces yet, check them out in our latest issue! #litmag #litmaglove #pushcart #pushcartprize

DID YOU KNOW? We’ve extended our comics deadline! Send us your short comics by September 15 to be considered for inclusion in our next issue! Submission guidelines: www.mun.ca/english/more... #comics #shortcomics #submission #submissionsopen #submissioncall #canlit #comix

We'll be tabling at the St. John's Comic Arts Fest this weekend!!! Don't miss this exciting new festival in town (and maybe grab a copy of the new issue of Paragon, and perhaps some heavily discounted back issues 👀)! www.stjohnscomics.com

Good news! WE’VE EXTENDED OUR SUBMISSION DEADLINE! If our summer deadline passed you by, there’s still time! Send your short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, visual art, & anything in between by our new deadline: September 9, 2025! Submission guidelines: www.mun.ca/english/more...

‼️ EXCITING NEWS ‼️ Our submissions are NOW OPEN from May 1 to August 31! Send us your best short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, & art for consideration in our next issue 🌼 For submission guidelines, please visit our website: www.mun.ca/english/more/place/paragon-press

‼️ EXCITING NEWS ‼️ Our submissions are NOW OPEN from May 1 to August 31! Send us your best short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, & art for consideration in our next issue 🌼 For submission guidelines, please visit our website: www.mun.ca/english/more/place/paragon-press

THE NEW ISSUE IS HERE!!! We can’t wait to celebrate the brilliant work inside! Come to our launch on April 28, 7pm at Peter Easton to hear readings by contributors & swing by the SPARKS Literary Festival on April 27 to check out the Paragon table & get your hands on a copy of the new issue early 👀

READER PROFILE Jennifer May Newhook writes poetry as well as short- & long-form fiction, receiving accolades & awards for her work in all genres. Her 1st poetry collection is Last Hours @riddlefence.bsky.social Debuts Press 2024. Jennifer lives in downtown St. John’s, NL (Ktaqmkuk).

READER PROFILE Burçak Aydinlik is a scholar & translator from Turkey. He currently pursues a PhD at Memorial University. Burçak loves the sea, video games, & the month of April. Still in love with Istanbul, Burçak lives in St. John’s, NL with his partner, Basak, & their two cats, Artemis & Obi.

READER PROFILE Cole Hayley is a writer from Elliston, Newfoundland & Labrador. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada & an alumnus of Memorial University. He won the 2023 Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award & two Arts and Letters awards.

READER PROFILE Nick Corcoran is a writer, musician, & theatre artist based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. He has 2 full-length plays in development, is working on the edits for his first volume of poetry, & his band Gallery is set to release a debut EP through Candlepin Records in May.

READER PROFILE Violet Drake is a trans, queer, & disabled artist & writer from the community of Lawn on the Burin Peninsula. Co-author of transVersing, her recent work can be found locally and nationally in Riddle Fence, St. John’s Storytelling, Understorey Magazine, & Canada’s Drag Race.

READER PROFILE Lily-Anne Longjohn is a writer with self-published works of fiction, scores of newspaper & editorial articles, & an in-progress collection of short stories. She is also a scientific writer as part of her day job. Lily-Anne Longjohn is a pseudonym, for writing purposes only.

READER PROFILE Beth Ryan’s novel, If We Caught Fire (@breakwaterbooks.bsky.social), was a contender for the Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries Must-Read Book. Her collection of short fiction, What Is Invisible (Killick), won the Margaret & John Savage First Book Award.

READER PROFILE Milan Parab has been published in the Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead, Lichen, Prairie Journal, & Paragon. He is a past recipient of the Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers 2008-2009. He adjudicated the Arts & Letters Awards Junior Division & the WCDR’s Dan Sullivan Poetry Contest.

READER PROFILE Kathryn D’Agostino is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, & researcher living with her daughters in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). Her work is an inward journey to explore identity within community, using visual themes of food, vessels, & nature.

READER PROFILE Andrew Loman is an associate professor in @memorialu.bsky.social Department of English. His articles & fiction have appeared in essay collections & journals. He’s editing an anthology of the E. J. Pratt Lectures to be published by Breakwater & Memorial University Press in Fall 2025.

COVER REVEAL! We’re so excited to feature visual art by Violet Drake in our latest issue. Don’t miss our Paragon issue 10 launch party at 7pm on April 28th at Peter Easton Pub (the day after Sparks)! @memorialu.bsky.social

Please join us for the launch of issue 10 of Paragon! Monday, April 28th at 7pm at Peter Easton Pub. Get ready for a fabulous night of readings from contributors to the new issue. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates! This event is FREE to attend! www.facebook.com/share/1C55wM...