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Trashy Friday: Of women named after intoxicants

By Melissa Krone

Posted05/20/2011

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Trashy Fun Friday

Trashy fun Friday

By Melissa Krone

Posted05/13/2011

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Trashy Fun Friday

My friend Sean Henry, who teaches English at UVic, collects pulp paperback cover images. They are strange and absurd, they are shocking and cheesy, and they fill me with delight. So I'm going to start sharing them here.

E-readers—will they change how we read?

By Kim Jernigan

Posted05/10/2011

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I was recently asked to respond to a series of questions from The Winnipeg Review, a new on-line journal, on e-books and e-publishing and their effect on traditional magazine publishing. These are the sort of crystal-ball questions that have been troubling the whole publishing infrastructure of late, and I'm not sure I was any better equipped...

Mighty Small Mag: Dragnet

By Melissa Krone

Posted05/03/2011

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Small Magazine Matters

Dragnet greets “the uncertain future of publishing with swords brandished and hopes high.”

An award-winning journal with a sense of fun, The New Quarterly has been publishing the best of new Canadian writing for 31 years. We offer a lively mix of fiction, poetry, author interviews, and talk about writing. Each issue will introduce you to a new generation of Canadian writers, share our delight in the sound and sense of a story well-told, and take you inside great writing.

TNQ writers have been nominated for Giller prizes, Governor General’s Awards, Griffin Poetry Prizes, Writer’s Trust Notable Author awards, Journey prizes, Commonwealth prizes, National Magazine Awards, and more.