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TNQ at the National Magazine Awards: We're kind of a big deal.
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 05/02/2013
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TNQ Writers in the News, Awards
Our newest volunteer recruit, Andy, was busy logging paypal transactions when Pamela suddenly started shouting. I had just returned with the mail, having spent the morning offline as I finished calculating a deposit. At first, neither one of us had any idea what the waving arms were about. "EIGHT! EIGHT!" she shouted. Eight National Magazine Awards nominations!
Both Comfort and Millstone: A Conversation with Philip Huynh
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 04/10/2013
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TNQ Talks To..., Philip Huynh, Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award
The top two stories in our inaugural (2012) Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Contest were both by West Coasters, like Peter himself. Novelist Claire Tacon talks with our runner up, Philip Huynh, about his story “Gulliver’s Wife,” a love triangle of sorts, in which language and love, past and present, learning and doing, the strange and the familiar jostle for place, and a hair cut may once...
Breakthrough on Retreat
By Susan Scott
Posted: 04/09/2013
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Trial & Error: A Conversation with Zoey Leigh Peterson
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 04/04/2013
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Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, TNQ Talks To...
There may have been a lot of trial, but there’s not much error in “Sleep World,” winner of the inaugural Peter Hinchcliffe Award for a story by a writer in the early stages. In fact, our judges’ said of it, “‘Sleep World’ is not the kind of story you expect to find in a competition for beginning writers. It’s the kind of story you expect to find in a collection of stories by a very fine...
Pushing Boundaries: In Conversation with Erika Thorkelson
By Susan Scott
Posted: 03/21/2013
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Personal Essay, TNQ Talks To..., Edna Staebler Personal Contest
" To me, the personal essay is the pinnacle of the genre. It requires a writer to not only to have an experience but to understand it, to make connections that elucidate the human experience." Erica Thorkelson, runner up in the 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, sits down with Nonfiction Editor Susan Scott.