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Overheard at TNQ: February 2012

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Posted02/29/2012

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True Confessions, Overheard

By Melissa Krone

Posted02/27/2012

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Poetry, TNQ Out and About, TNQ Writers in the News

Cornelia Hoogland (whose poetry we most recently published in TNQ #117) is celebrating the launch of her latest book of poetry, Crow.

The Juliet Stories

By Melissa Krone

Posted02/23/2012

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TNQ Out and About, TNQ Writers in the News

If you're fortunate enough to have issue 121 of TNQ, I'm sure that you are enamoured with Carrie Snyder's story, "Disruption."

Two bald men discuss very little about hats.

By Melissa Krone

Posted02/15/2012

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TNQ Talks To...

For this interview, we tried something a little different: we asked Graeme Lottering (whose postscript story, "Love is a Foreign Language," appeared in issue #120) to talk to Don Charlton about his essay, "The Bald Aesthetic." We met Graeme at our 30th "Birthday" party, and knew immediately that his sense of humour...

An old soul—Amanda Baker-Patterson

By Kim Jernigan

Posted02/08/2012

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TNQ Talks To..., Poetry

The judges of our Occasional Verse Contest said of Amanda-Baker Patterson’s 3rd place winner, “Happy Heart Day,” that it was the entry “most in the spirit of our contest’s namesake: light verse well done was Nick’s trademark—and his poems, like this one, often had a teasing edge to them.

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.