November, 2011-Pilot 8 is available now!

The guys who designed the cover, Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman are raising money to finish their animated film, Asphalt Watches. Check out the incentives they offer. Our favourite is the "ZEN Special".

Pilot 8 features: Misanthrope Specialty Co., Kris Bertin, Seripop, Patrick Kyle, Jamiyla Lowe, Karen Stephano, Craig Morrison, KG Shea, Bryan Belanger, Danny Sedore, Lee Sheppard, Reuben McLaughlin, Karen Justl, Mather Firth, Elahzar Rao, David Munro, Jim Nason, Christopher Martin, Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman.

October, 2010-Check out the Pilot Contest page to link to stories by our winners. Congratulations to our grand prize winner, Farida Samerkhanova.

October, 2010-The launch party for Pilot 7, featuring a performance by I Furiosi, is being held on Nov. 7 at Toronto's Tequila Bookworm.

September, 2010-Pilot 7, the baroque issue, is out and about to hit newsstands.It includes a Mini CD of music by I Furiosi. Only we couldn't fit all five songs onto that tiny disc, so we had to put the song and liner notes for All The Birds that I do Knowe up on this website. Download the files and enjoy the music of I Furiosi and the images of Amanda Nedham.

April, 2010-The last day to submit writing for The Pilot Project's Writing Contest is June 15, 2010. Keep the stories coming. They are wonderful!

We have also added an interview with ceramic artist Naomi Yasui to our Pilot Interviews page. It is the second of six interviews with artist concerning their "obsolete" work conducted by editor Lee Sheppard.

January, 2009-The Pilot Project's Pilot Contest is inspiring some great short short stories. Keep the submissions coming.

A regular contributor, illustrator Danny Christopher, has recommended that we dedicate our next issue to the hell pig. Maybe issue 8, Danny. Thanks for the suggestion.

January, 2009-Pilot is happy to announce our first writing contest. Go to our Pilot Contest page for details.

December, 2009-Pilot 6 is out! It contains images by and an interview with Fiona Smyth; work by artists Louis Alexandre-Beauregard, Michael DeForge, and Nik Dudukovic; and writing by Dipika Mukherjee, Christopher McKinnon and Kathleen Phillips, amongst others. Subscribers, expect it in the mail soon. Everyone else, run out to your local bookseller and pick up a copy for you and everyone you love, or even like just a little.

Go to our Pilot Interviews page to read about regular contributor Nik Dudukovic's obsolete work.

October, 2009-Check out our good friends, Seripop's new website. They are asking for photograph submissions for a little contest. There are five prize packs and five judges. One of the judges is our very own contributing editor, Lee Sheppard. The other guest judges are: Ben Pobjoy of Emporium Gallery in Montreal; Mike Treff of Sound Screen Design; Dan Seligman of Pop Montreal; and Pierre Richardson of Of Uncool. One of the prize packs includes all five of Seripop's images from 2008's Pilot Mail Art Project. You can see all of the images from the Mail Art Project here.

Seripop fans, if you haven't already, pick up a copy of Pilot 5, which includes a portfolio of Seripop's work and an feature article about Chloe and Yannick, "Bad Vibes: The Art of Seripop" by Sheppard.

September, 2009- Pilot is currently looking for submissions to Pilot 7, a baroque themed issue.

July, 2009- Pilot 5 is in bookstores across Canada now. Hope you enjoy it.

June, 2009- As mentioned in the Editors' note to Pilot 5, we printed a version of the end of Kathleen McFarlane's The Last Half of Last Year that was from an earlier draft. Here is a .pdf of the end of the story as it should have appeared.

May, 2009- Pilot has an exciting new subscription offer: with a two issue subscription you will receive your choice of signed print from our Mail Art series. Subscribe before June 1st, 2009 and receive two peices of Mail Art. Click here to see the offer.

January, 2009- Congratulations to Jesse Patrick Ferguson, contributor to Pilots 3 and 4, for his appearance in Harper's Magazine's January 2009 issue, Readings section. Check it out.