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Congratulations to Kim Jernigan

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Posted03/26/2012

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TNQ Writers in the News

Kim, TNQ's editor, spends a lot of time bragging about the many successes of TNQ writers. It's our turn to congratulate Kim.

Great Expectations

By Pamela Mulloy

Posted03/19/2012

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After a public lecture Joseph Boyden gave at Wilfrid Laurier University last week, he was asked some tough questions. As a matter of fact, his answer to many who came to the microphone (often beginning with a lengthy preface detailing their own experience), was “Tough question.”

Congratulations to Theresa Kishkan!

By Melissa Krone

Posted03/15/2012

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Essays, TNQ Writers in the News

Theresa Kishkan's essay, "Arbutus menziesii," won TNQ's first annual Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest in 2010. The essay was subsequently republished in a memoir/personal essay collection called Mnemonic: A Book of Trees, which has just been nominated for...

Signed, sealed, delivered I’m yours

By Pamela Mulloy

Posted03/09/2012

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My husband came back from an afternoon forage through a second hand book store and announced that he’d come across a book he’d donated to a local charity after a recent purge. The book was now listed as a UK first edition for twenty dollars. The book, by Henry Miller, was purchased in Guildford, England in 1991, which my husband duly noted in the...

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.