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Issue 159

Three Poems

Sit any longer staring out the window like this you’ll probably catch them at it.
Budging up from the ground of their own half-moon bed (that fast!)
not even waiting to shuck off the last shawl of snow before Read more.

Mia Anderson in
Issue 159

Roadways

I was once stuffed with five others in the backseat of a heavily upholstered, navy blue Buick. We were seven to the car, all of us fourteen and fifteen and eighteen and invincible with windows down driving north in the night on the expressway out of Waterloo. Read more.

Geoff Martin in
Issue 159

Roncesvalles

The night sky out the kitchen window is cocktail-dress black and Louise feels the panic rising in her throat. The kids, in the middle of peas and pork cutlets and milk at the kitchen table, have a Christmas-season banter that excludes her completely, plans for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and for the sled that will surely come— Read more.

Jody Mason in

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The Writer’s Corner

September 23, 2021

The 2021 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Winners

The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award! Winner “Something Really Unbelievable” by Nicole Smith Runner-Up “Mushroom Girl” by Lizzie Derksen Shortlist (to be published) “The Last Time She Saw Charlie” by Carol Hay “Florence” by Hilary Ball “(In)Auspicious” by Alana Rigby Look for the winners’ mentions […]

September 16, 2021

The 2021 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist

The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlisted submissions to the 2021 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. The longlisted writers and their stories are as follows: “The silence between footsteps” by Kimberley Aslett “Florence” by Hilary Ball “Fire Sign” by Megan Callahan “Mushroom Girl” by Lizzie Derksen “Élodie” by Rachel Deutsch “The Last Time She […]

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September 14, 2021

Finding the Form with Wayne Yetman

The Story Behind Poor Little Thing TNQ has asked how I chose the form and structure for this story. I never think of such things. The starting point was a news report in the mid-1990s of a man perishing in an almost impossible accident in Toronto. I simply followed my nose from there. I wrote […]

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