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Both Comfort and Millstone: A Conversation with Philip Huynh
By Kim Jernigan
Posted04/10/2013
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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...
Trial & Error: A Conversation with Zoey Leigh Peterson
By Kim Jernigan
Posted04/04/2013
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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...
Four New Quarterly poets in Best Canadian Poetry 2012
By Kim Jernigan
Posted03/06/2013
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This year’s Best Canadian Poetry in English is out, with a feisty introduction by guest editor Carmine Starnino about what he calls Canadian poetry’s new “steampunk” aesthetic, poems that are playful hybrids governed by “a set of rules that are self-devised, unique, complex and subject to instant change,” also (and for that reason) difficult to...
Frail Bark Boat: A Conversation with Mary-Lynn Murphy
By Kim Jernigan
Posted02/06/2013
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Mary-Lynn Murphy was one of the winners of TNQ’s 2012 Occasional Verse Contest for “Breathless,” a spare but touching poem about the death of her father. Through her interview with the author, Kim Jernigan gains insight into the artistic development and origins of the poem.
Storms, Forms, and Light Verse: A Conversation with Susan Olding
By Kim Jernigan
Posted01/28/2013
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Susan Olding’s poem “Lemoine Point” was one of four to end up in the winners’ circle in our Occasional Verse Contest. One of our judges, speaking for the group, said of this rollicking pantoum about the approach and aftermath of a summer storm: “I did not get far into my first reading of ‘Lemoine Point’ before I was overcome with the intense...
He Knows What's Good and He Chooses It
By Kim Jernigan
Posted12/11/2012
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Many of those in the TNQ community will have heard by now about the death of Peter Hinchcliffe last November, just the other side of his 76th birthday, after a difficult illness, borne, as his family said, with humour and fortitude. Peter, a professor of English and sometime Department Chair at St. Jerome’s University, was also a long-time Fiction...
Non Sequitur: A conversation with Anne Marie Todkill
By Kim Jernigan
Posted11/16/2012
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TNQ Talks To..., Occasional Verse, Anne Marie Todkill
One of the great delights of being a contest adjudicator at TNQ is the opportunity to converse on the page with our winners once they are chosen. Though my acquaintance with the writer Anne Marie Todkill, whose poem “Non sequitur” was the winner of our Occasional Verse Contest, remains virtual, her personality was revealed through our exchanges...
An Anti-Idyll
By Kim Jernigan
Posted09/25/2012
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If you follow TNQ's blog, you will have read about the idyllic day we spent celebrating Allan Casey's book Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country, Waterloo Region's 2012 One Book, One Community read. An account of Canada's largest inland lakes, Casey's book is part paean to his own childhood lakeside, to the delights of...
Tips for New Writers
By Kim Jernigan
Posted07/03/2012
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Editor Kim Jernigan offers a few tips and tricks for submitting to literary magazines.
On Robyn Sarah's "My shoes are killing me"
By Kim Jernigan
Posted04/15/2012
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wanting the poem to reach its readers unmediated, Robyn was reluctant, at first, to tell us about the genesis of her poem and the effects she was after. But she acceded to our curiosity and shared some of the poem’s “back story.”
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