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Poetry

Afterword

Sometime in the tail end of the last century—so long ago that I can only approximate the date by the house we hadn’t bought yet and the kids we hadn’t had—I picked up a translation of the rune poem, and I lost my mind. Read more.

Erin Noteboom in
Fiction

Moccasins Over Stones

“It only takes a time or two of feelin’ that way before you know you just can’t continue like that anymore,” she looked at me and mustered up a grin, “when there’s no laughin’ to see you through the tough paddlin’.” I tried to grin back to let her know I could handle what she was saying. Read more.

Laura Schwager in
Issue 144

A Different River

So, this much I know: for a few short years in the late twentieth century, Toronto was a place of pleasure and political awakening for a group of people who tried to open fresh channels to self-creation; then, a few years later, it was a place where that same group of people taught the rest of us how to die and how to live with courage, fury, and fierce joy. A place of passage, the Iroquois might say. Read more.

Susan Olding in

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The Writer’s Corner

April 12, 2018

TNQ is hiring!

TNQ is looking to welcome a new Managing Editor to join our team. The position description is below – if you love Canadian literature, have a penchant for nurturing new voices and for supporting local talent, this just may be the right fit for you! Managing Editor The New Quarterly Location: Waterloo, ON Job type: […]

April 9, 2018

Don’t Let Our Writers Cry Over Spilled Ink!

Don’t let our writers cry over spilled ink! A single or monthly donation to The New Quarterly supports not only the work we publish, but all the years of correspondence, encouragement, and growing confidence on the part of both the writer and editor that this work is good, that it’s worth reading, and reading again. […]

March 2, 2018

In Conversation with 2017 Peter Hinchcliffe Award Winner Shannon Blake

I need a lot of mental space and silence to write. I’d like to get over this, but unfortunately, I’m not over it yet. I don’t write at home. I prefer to write in a space with no windows, no other people visible, no noise, and no internet. I turn off my phone. I actually don’t like to talk to anyone at all before I start writing because that energy interferes with my thought process. I write in the morning; I’m dumber after 11 am.

Pamela Mulloy with Shannon Blake in
February 23, 2018

That Hair-Flipping Moment of Truth: On my Relationship with The New Quarterly

I remember the precise moment when I decided that I would be a writer when I grew up. I was still in high school, and I was standing outside my bedroom door in my family’s crowded house, waiting in line for the bathroom (in addition to having five children, my parents frequently hosted international students, […]

Carrie Snyder in
February 15, 2018

Evoking Place & Space, or Making Room for Curiosity: An Interview with Susan Olding

With this essay, I longed to move beyond the page. I wanted to map the stories against the buried rivers, to make it web-based and interactive. To create a kind of palimpsest of image and text and walk the reader through the sites, elaborating on some of the political and environmental issues that I could only touch on here.

Susan Scott with Susan Olding in
February 8, 2018

On Rejection

Rejections were barely whispered in our writing group. A few of us shared details at times in a text, an email, but never to the whole group and rarely face to face. Then in 2017 TNQ editors Pamela Mulloy and Susan Scott asked us to write about rejection collectively. At the time, we—Jagtar, Tamara, and […]

Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Lina Barkas, Leonarda Carranza, Hege Jakobsen Lepri, Tamara Jong, Emily McKibbon, Obim Okongwu, Laura Sky in

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Issue 146

IF ON THE WAY YOU WANDER: in which we come to terms with our daughter's sexuality, suffer a visit from our mother, wreak havoc on our child's toy, and get naked to spy on our neighbours.

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