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Another award for Alice Major!

By Melissa Krone

Posted: 06/20/2012

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Alice Major was unable to attend the National Magazine Awards gala at which she was awarded a Gold Medal for her essay, "The Ultraviolet Catastrophe," from The QuArc Issue. That's because she was nominated for another award on the other side of the country!

Congratulations to Theresa Kishkan!

By Melissa Krone

Posted: 03/15/2012

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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...

Best Canadian Essays

By Melissa Krone

Posted: 11/17/2011

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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.

The Ultraviolet Catastrophe by Alice Major

Posted: 07/19/2011

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Poet Alice Major explores physics and tragedy in this essay from The QuArc Issue, which won Gold in the Essay category at the 35th annual National Magazine Awards.

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