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The Writer’s Corner

TNQ Mourns the Tragic Death of Longtime Board Chair, Alister Thomas

Alister was a bright beacon in the Canadian literary community and one of TNQ’s greatest champions, serving as Chair of the TNQ board from 2016-2024.

What’s Braedan Houtman Reading?

My reading is never habitual. I have moments of insatiability and others of fasting. Working at a bookshop last year, reading and completing were separate entities. I read widely: the first half of Millhauser’s Disruptions, fragments of Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, and nearly all of Tokarczuk’s Flights—the last of which I loved until I […]

Finding the Form with Candice May

I started writing this story a few years ago, immediately after I’d heard of a psychological term called ‘the dead mother complex.’ I was absolutely enthralled by this concept and knew I had to find a way to write about it. In psychology, a ‘dead mother complex’ describes an emotionally unavailable or absent mother, which […]