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Pushing Boundaries: In Conversation with Erika Thorkelson
By Susan Scott
Posted: 03/21/2013
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" To me, the personal essay is the pinnacle of the genre. It requires a writer to not only to have an experience but to understand it, to make connections that elucidate the human experience." Erica Thorkelson, runner up in the 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, sits down with Nonfiction Editor Susan Scott.
The Wrong Way: A Conversation with Sierra Skye Gemma
By Susan Scott
Posted: 02/25/2013
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Sierra Skye Gemma won our 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest for “The Wrong Way,” a trenchant critique of conventional grief theory using powerful family stories that enlighten and unnerve. This is Susan Scott's conversation with the author and her writing experience.
Frail Bark Boat: A Conversation with Mary-Lynn Murphy
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 02/06/2013
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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
Posted: 01/28/2013
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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 feeling that this poem had to be read out...
Rarities: An Interview with Jason Guriel
By Tristanne Connolly
Posted: 01/23/2013
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When Tristanne Connolly was treated to a sneak peek at poems from Jason Guriel’s upcoming collection, they seemed to come from a familiar world—where seemingly youthful pastimes hold a potential seriousness, maybe even a transcendent significance, but without becoming (God forbid!) poser-pretentious. If you want to see what Tristanne is talking about, you can look forward to Guriel’s...
He Knows What's Good and He Chooses It
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 12/11/2012
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Peter Hinchcliffe
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 Editor at The New Quarterly.
Quietus: A (Quiet) Conversation with Kate Timmers
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 11/16/2012
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TNQ Talks To..., Occasional Verse, Kate Timmers
This exchange with Kate Timmers, winner of the $500 second prize in our 2012 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, was conducted over e-mail by Carey Jernigan, a granddaughter of the man for whom the contest is named. Though she wasn’t able to join the family for this year’s adjudication, she was particularly drawn by Kate’s poem and volunteered to put a few questions.
Non Sequitur: A conversation with Anne Marie Todkill
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 11/16/2012
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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 as we prepared her poem for press and...
The Calm and the Storm
By Pamela Mulloy
Posted: 11/08/2012
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TNQ Out and About, Wild Writers Festival
There was a moment in the festival when I was sitting in on one of the panels amidst a roomful of people, many leaning forward as they listened to the writers, and I was overcome with the sense of being part of something vital, something that mattered, the reverence and seriousness in tone was striking. This was a crowd for whom literature made sense and I felt carried away and utterly...
Letters To and From Our Editors
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 10/11/2012
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