Membership

The House of Exile
The Excelsis Group
The Friends of Exile
A Community of Support

Membership has its Excelsis advantages!   We are a member-based community… become a Friend of Exile by signing up for our newsletter to receive special deals, gifts, and more – and to keep informed about all we do.

In 1972, the first issue of Exile, A Literary Quarterly appeared, and this set the stage for a truly unique Canadian publishing – and cultural – experience! In the years that followed, more than 2,000 contributions have appeared in our pages, and, over the decades we have evolved to meet the challenges of the times. And times, they certainly have changed!

One significant difference is that print publishing is not what it once was. But what has not changed – in fact what has become more important because of today’s multiple media options that can titillate yet all too often obfuscate – is that a community experience is like nothing else!

And so The Excelsis Group developed a new membership approach that would allow the Exile community to be sustained, and most importantly, to grow.

We came to realize there were individuals who believed in the importance of print publications which served not only as reading pleasure, but that acted as educational tools – and that such a resource should not be kept from anyone who wanted access.

Exile Quarterly is at the heart of our educational initiatives:
• it is free to those who cannot afford a subscription;
• it is provided at no charge to students;
• it is a starting point for mentoring emerging writers;
• it inspires writers by way of our literary competitions;
• it is the robust resource for our social media experience;
• it is the basis for our collaborations with post-secondary institutions.

Generous support from members of our community help continue the publishing legacy, and is what enables The Excelsis Group’s public engagements and events, all of which sustain our forums for smart, thoughtful, intelligent conversation on matters vital to Canadians.

Your contribution makes a huge difference. Every dollar has an impact, and your gift demonstrates your commitment to Canadian arts and culture, and to the creative people who represent our multicultural and multiracial makeup. You make what we publish possible. And for that, all of us at The Excelsis Group are truly grateful.

To support the Excelsis programs, please consider a donation amount that is right for you: Donate…

Thanks to you, The Excelsis Group delivers stories about culture – narratives about issues that inspire us, spark discussion, and educate Canadians from coast to coast to coast.

Thanks to you, we introduce Canadians to international literary and visual talent – so very important to our appreciation that we are not an insular country, welcoming new and different ways of thinking.

Thanks to you, stories are shared with new audiences and developed in different ways through curated events, digital projects, and innovative partnerships with corporations and non-profit organizations.

Thanks to you, there is much to celebrate and much to look forward to!

In 2022 we will celebrate 50 years of publishing EXILE Quarterly, and in our pages leading writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and works in translation by authors and artists (now well-known – although most weren’t when they first appeared) include Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke, Marshall McLuhan, Sorel Etrog, Charles Pachter, Tomas Tranströmer, Tomi Ungerer, Joe Rosenblatt, Andrei Voznesensky, Sara Angelucci, Rita Leistner, Pierre Gauvreau, Claire Wilks, Ljubodrag Andric, Brian Brett, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Priscila Uppal, Kenneth J. Harvey, Margaret Avison, Roch Carrier, Seamus Heaney, Susan Musgrave, Nicole Brossard, Irving Layton, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Joy Kogawa, Ray Robertson, Zoe Whittall, along with the emerging talents who are always following in their steps.

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