The Exiles

Emily Ruth Verona

Emily Ruth Verona received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies from The State University of New York at Purchase. She is the recipient of the 2014 Pinch Literary Award in Fiction and a 2014 Jane Austen Short Story Award Finalist. Previous publication credits include work featured in Read. Learn. Write., Fifty Word Stories, The Toast, and Popmatters. She lives in New Jersey.

Fall 2014 Issue

Winner of the James Patrick Prize in Fiction

Waiting to Let Go

Meet Our Authors

Although our authors live in different parts of the world, and walk various paths of life, they all share the general conviction that literature is a worth-while endeavor which unifies us as a community. And it is in such a community that literature is most ably produced. Read More

What is Literature?

The members of The Exiles share the conviction that literature is one of the modes of knowledge through which truth becomes accessible to man. The contemplation of a literary work of art is a vision of that deeper reality which we mean by the term Truth. Read More

Who are the Exiles?

The Exiles were formally established in June 2012 as a literary club in the tradition of the Inklings of Oxford and the Fugitives of Vanderbilt University. They meet regularly to share and critique each other’s writing and to discuss literary and aesthetic theory in general. Read More