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We’ve extended our comics deadline!

Send us your short comics by September 15 to be considered for inclusion in our next issue!

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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 👀)!

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)!

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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!

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