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I’ve long grown accustomed to objectifying models, both male and female. I imagine myself the dispassionate surgeon scrutinizing patients on an operating…
“For me writing is a human action, to insert oneself into the avalanche of time, to stand in the way of its movement. To record, to remember, and by recording, to alter.”
Each year, The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest celebrates poems shaped by moments of public and private significance. In On Occasion: Poems for…
TNQ Nonfiction Editor, Lamees Al Ethari, catches up with renowned Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke in this exclusive interview. She asks how the Poets Breaking…
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2026 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. “Ocean of Emptiness” by Karen Armstrong “Vanishing Point”…
Winner “God Made Butterflies”by Dami Adebajo Runner Up “What I’ve Left Under a Rock”by Lilita Tannis Honourable Mentions “Exchanges with Neighbours”by Carla Braidek “Thirteen Nights…
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop is a community arts initiative that connects women who are immigrants or refugees with artists who assist and mentor them in writing and performing their own stories.
WRITING ON THE LAND
A WILD WRITERS RETREAT | MAY 6 - MAY 10, 2026
Join Helen Humphreys, Pamela Mulloy, Susan Scott, and Andrew Westoll in this guided writing workshop for emerging and established writers.
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