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Non Sequitur: A conversation with Anne Marie Todkill
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 11/16/2012
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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...
Both Comfort and Millstone: A Conversation with Philip Huynh
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 04/10/2013
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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
Posted: 04/04/2013
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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...
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...
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...
Quietus: A (Quiet) Conversation with Kate Timmers
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 11/16/2012
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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...
Two bald men discuss very little about hats.
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 02/15/2012
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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...
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