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Issue 147

The Death of Me

I tried giving that experience to one fictional character after another. Prose was simply not its medium. Finally, I gave it a poem all its own. Like the rest of my poems, it is about death. For the hornets were removed. One day, there was just a smudged outline on the stone of where the nest had hung. Read more.

K.D. Miller in
Issue 147

Love Six Ways

Under a dull aluminum sky, in this cold
eleventh month of stinging rain,
rotting leaves, muck—I think of him today.
The way he sat me on his lap, offered
his twisted smile. The way his white hair
stood out like a cloud. His bony knees.
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Sandra Davies in
Issue 147

Lemons

Unlike Florence, who disliked making or serving meals, Edith was steadied by the preparation and look of food. Today, she concentrated on dividing each plate into quadrants, balancing shapes and colours, the dark green beans, orange carrots, the frilled leaves of the lettuce cradling the red tomato and devilled eggs garnished with capers. Read more.

Nancy Baele in

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The Writer’s Corner

August 31, 2018

2018 Contest Winners

TNQ’s 2018 Contest Winners — Fiction, Poetry, and Personal Essay The New Quarterly editors and contest judges faced difficult decisions to determine the winners of this year’s three writing contests. TNQ congratulates and applauds the 2018 contest winners. Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award First prize ($1,000) Katie Zdybel, “The Last Thunderstorm Swim of the Summer” Runner-up […]

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August 27, 2018

2018 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest: Our Apologies

The staff and volunteers at The New Quarterly would like to issue a public apology to those who were incorrectly notified they had been included on the longlist for the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse contest due to an administrative error. We have sent individual apologies to the affected poets and would like to assure contest entrants that we will do our best to ensure that this will not happen again. 

August 27, 2018

Writing Spaces: Tristan Tavis Marajh

The wide majority of my writing thus far I have done at a local hospital (not as a patient) and at various public libraries. At night, at the hospital; during the day, at the library.

Tristan Tavis Marajh in
August 27, 2018

Rejection: A Love Story

Sometimes writing can take us to scary places, investigating dark, poorly lit basements and scary cobweb-covered attics. A caring community is the well-lit, welcoming living room that assists while you find your way there and back—that figuratively has your back.

Leonarda Carranza with Eufemia Fantetti in
August 20, 2018

TNQ’s 2018 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist

The New Quarterly (TNQ) is committed to providing a space for both established and emerging writers, but the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award is designed specifically for new writers. The Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award is sponsored by the St. Jerome’s University English Department. The contest honours the distinguished St. Jerome’s professor, Peter Hinchcliffe, who […]

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August 20, 2018

TNQ’s 2018 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist

Edna Staebler was a pioneer in the field of literary journalism and a beloved figure in Waterloo Region. In 1981 she helped to found The New Quarterly  (TNQ) and in 2005 her generous bequest allowed us to establish this award, in her honour. “The 2018 longlist surprises, provokes, and heartens, as diverse voices across the […]

Kerri Hutchinson on behalf of The New Quarterly

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Issue 147

WHEN THE PAST IS PRESENT: in which we maneuver antlers on the bus, suffer grief through cooking, learn to write by washing dishes, and discover life by climbing mountains.

Falling in Love with Poetry

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