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A conversation with Kerry-Lee Powell, winner of The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
By Melissa Krone
Posted11/28/2011
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TNQ Talks To..., Poetry
At the “envelope, please” moment, after the judges of our Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest had debated the merits of the score or so of poems on their short list and chosen a winner and some runners up, they were astonished to discover that the same poet, Kerry-Lee Powell, had written both their winner, “The Lifeboat,” and “The Emperor,”...
Best Canadian Essays
By Melissa Krone
Posted11/17/2011
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Essays, TNQ Recommends, TNQ Writers in the News
The 2011 edition of Tightrope Books' Best Canadian Essays is now in bookstores. This year's edition features two fabulous essays originally published in TNQ.
Trashy Paperback Friday: tight skirts & loose morals (and a mysterious thigh implant)
By Melissa Krone
Posted11/11/2011
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Trashy Fun Friday
East and West: A Conversation with Sara Heinonen
By Pamela Mulloy
Posted11/10/2011
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TNQ Talks To..., Writing
Sara Heinonen’s wonderfully evocative story, ‘The Blue Dress’ (TNQ 120) is the tale of an expat couple in Hong Kong, he a successful businessman embracing the rapidly expanding money culture, she a teacher of English, who accompanies him.
I Stand Here Ironing
By Kim Jernigan
Posted11/09/2011
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The New Quarterly’s blog was named, designed, and carried for most of its first year by Rosalynn Tyo, for six years TNQ’s Managing Editor. Those who loved her wryly opinionated, idiosyncratically voiced pieces on all things literary will already have made their way over to her new blog, “Reading Like a Mother,” launched as her daughter Chelsea...
Trashy Paperback Friday: a delightful trip
By Melissa Krone
Posted11/04/2011
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Trashy Fun Friday
Go ahead, judge a book by its cover
By Madhulika Saxena
Posted11/03/2011
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