When News Comes In…

From an FB Post:

Delighted to report — and I don’t write short stories — that a story by my alter ego, John Farrow — who does not write short stories, either, and if he did write one it would be a crime story — will be published in Exile (one of the next two issues/43.2 or 43.3), courtesy of Barry and Michael Callaghan, editors. So a short story by me is exceedingly rare and publishing a crime short story in the highest level of literary quarterly, by John Farrow, is more rare still. Tickled pretty damn pink. Did I mention that I don’t write short stories? —Trevor Ferguson

Between small presses Exile Quarterly and Exile Editions 12 submissions are eligible.

Exile Editions:

1. “Ghost Walk” by Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa (from Bawaajigan: Stories of Power)
2. “Melinda Irene and Madame Bouvé” by Yugcetun Anderson (from Bawaajigan: Stories of Power)
3. “Elevator Shoes” by Priscila Uppal (from Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, Book Eight)
4. “Your Failing Heart.” by Christine Miscione (from Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, Book Eight)
5. “The Light in the Closet” by Leanne Milech (from Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, Book Eight)
6. “My Uncle, My Barbecue Chicken Deliveryman” by Mark Paterson (from Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series, Book Eight)

Exile Quarterly:

1. Blue: Three Sonnets to Mary (after GMH) by Sue Sorensen (Poetry from Exile Quarterly 42.2)
2. “The Bulbous It With No Eyelids” by William John Wither (Short story from Exile Quarterly 42.2)
3. “Damned Little Dog” by Joyce Carol Oates (Short story from Exile Quarterly 42.4)
4. The Daybreakers by Michael Fraser (Poetry from Exile Quarterly 42.3)
5. “The Black Moleskins” by Rex Pickett (Novel excerpt from Exile Quarterly 43.1)
6. Seven Poems by Beth Goobie (Poetry from Exile Quarterly 43.1)

I just got my hard copy of EXILE Quarterly and need to say, what a BEAUTIFUL! magazine!!!

THANK YOU! so much for doing such a great job.

I wasn’t expecting a full page for each image. The magazine is also REALLY interesting.

I seem to be capitalizing EVERY THING like a crazy person but I couldn’t be more impressed!

Thanks again for  your work and attention and including my work in your Magazine.

—Wallace “Wally” Edwards (Issue 42.1: “The Journey of an Idea: Wallace Edwards on Wallace Edward” page 80)

We’re making up for time that unfortunately slipped by in 2018 as we made the transition to The Excelsis Group, and the new administration and production responsibilities that are required to bring you EXILE Quarterly (aka ELQ magazine).

Issues 41.4 and 42.1 have gone into circulation (the only two to be released in 2018). 42.2 is going to press at the time of this post. 42.3 (featuring David Cronenberg on the cover, with a section of intimate photos and prose inside) goes to press in about 6 weeks – these are the first of six issues planned for 2019. Come 2020, we’re back on track with quarterly publications.

Exile Editions has submitted five 2018 books for the prestigious Alcuin Society’s 37th Annual Excellence in Book Design Awards.

Claire Wilks: What the Hand Sees, edited by Barry Callaghan, in the Pictoral category. Photography (of artwork) by Mark Tearle, digital processing by Michael Callaghan. Designer Michael Callaghan.

We Left the Camp Singing: The Etty Hillesum Poems and Drawings, by Janice Kulyk Keefer, in the Poetry category. Claire Wilks, artwork. Photography (of artwork) by Mark Tearle, digital processing by Michael Callaghan. Preface by Diana Kuprel. Designer Michael Callaghan.

Infinite Gradation, by Anne Michaels, in the Poetry category. Designer Michael Callaghan.

Railtracks, by Anne Michaels and John Berger, in the Prose Fiction category. Photographs by Janice Johnson. Designer Michael Callaghan.

All the Lonely People: Collected Stories, by Barry Callaghan, in the Prose Fiction category. Designer Michael Callaghan.

Exile Quarterly (aka ELQ) has submitted five pieces for consideration in this year’s National Magazine Awards (in 2018, we were the recipient of a Gold Medal in Fiction, for Diana Svennes-Smith’s “The Stranger in Me.”).

“Queen Elizabeth II Visits the Elks Bingo Hall” by Karen Lee White, in the fiction category.

“The Yoshitoshi Selections” by Deirdre Dwyer, in the poetry category.

“Randonnées” by Adrienne Drobnies, in the poetry category.

“In God’s Headbone” by Barry Callaghan, in the Personal Journalism category.

“In God’s Headbone” by Barry Callaghan, with photography by Janice Johnson, in the One-of-a-Kind category.

The Excelsis Group, Exile Quarterly (aka ELQ) and Exile Editions have been working through a variety of editorial considerations, website presentations, a new social media strategy, and how we’ll provide you with the content that best describes and explores what we are doing.

Look for new posts and feeds in the coming days and weeks as we bring everything up to date.

We look forward to sharing and engaging!

(In this ongoing process, we’ve removed previous posts so that everything starts fresh – we may bring them back, re-enable them in an archive file, or simply move forward from here.)