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Issue 147

Catch

Wake up like the wings of a moth
beating against its paper cage.
It is possible to run through set phrases
and feel satisfied. You could possess
a stronger self-reliance, believe
that something is new.
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Carolyn Nakagawa in
Issue 147

Dome

In the dream, Mae hangs from his right hand, her grip painfully tight, and he feels his left hand slipping from the lip of the dome. His fear of the height is paralyzing. There’s the horrifying moment of release, his grip on both Mae and the dome lost, their rushing down to the van or its rushing up to them, he can’t tell. Read more.

John Van Rys in
Issue 140

Not for the Faint-Hearted: Faith and Fiction at the Festival of Literary Diversity

Over the years our family has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to people taking advantage of my mother; the damage was taxing and persistent. The enormity of my gratitude and admiration for a stranger’s empathy could not be adequately expressed in a few sentences, so I sent gift cards for Starbucks Coffee. Five—enough for the entire staff. Read more.

Eufemia Fantetti in

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The Writer’s Corner

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
August 20, 2018

TNQ’s 2018 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist

Providing a home for poetry by both established and emerging poets has, from the start, been an important part of The New Quarterly’s (TNQ) mandate. The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest is sponsored by Kim Jernigan, and her family, in memory of her father Nick Blatchford, the man who sparked the family’s love of poetry. […]

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August 13, 2018

Writing Spaces: Evangeline Jones

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Evangeline Jones, author of “Echoes of the Voiceless” in Issue #147. While I find a desk essential to writing, I very rarely use it. It more often ends up being a depository for books, magazines, notebooks; various tools of creativity or […]

Evangeline Jones in
August 13, 2018

Writing Spaces: Stephanie Bolster

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Stephanie Bolster, author of the three poems “All,” “Here,” and “Cusp” in Issue #147. During the months before my second daughter’s birth, our garage door became a wall of windows. The four small existing windows, cobwebbed, with cracked red frames, transformed […]

Stephanie Bolster in
August 13, 2018

What You Love

TNQ Nonfiction Editor Susan Scott interviews writer and poet, Isabella Wang, the youngest contestant and Honourable Mention to grace the pages of the magazine.

Susan Scott with Isabella Wang in

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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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