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Issue 167

Peony

Ants like black hair in her mouth
moving and coiling and tangling. Read more.

Kelsey Andrews in
Issue 167

The Sad Men and Me

It was the unnamed sadnesses, the pretend bonhomie, that hollowed me out. It seemed so long since any of those men had touched a feeling. And they didn’t want to. Read more.

Ronna Bloom in
Issue 167

Lucky

In an iron skillet, Mama spun a white square of lard. These are the things I’ll miss when I run away, Bonifacia thought. She kept a tally of them in her mind. The smells, for example. The batter and the beer, the garlic on her fingers, the basil in the garden, her brother-in-laws’ cigarettes, the wine’s putrid sharpness, the musty basement, and the porcine wafts from the pan. Read more.

Matthew Fox in

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The Writer’s Corner

September 27, 2023

2023 Wild Writers Festival Reading List

LISA ALWARD – Cocktail  Cocktail by Lisa Alward is a collection of twelve pristine stories. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves. The writing is crisp and assured, and the characters are vividly drawn as they […]

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September 26, 2023

What’s Ronna Bloom Reading?

Usually I have a novel, a few poetry books, and some nonfiction around my bed. I like to move between them. The novel: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good. This is a novel about five Indigenous children who were sent to a residential school, what happens to them when they are little, and when they […]

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September 22, 2023

The 2023 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Winners

The New Quarterly is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award! Winner “Bruise and Shine”by Alex Kitt Runners-up “Prepper”by Meagan Callahan “Singing to the Gods”by Deepa Rajagopalan Honourable Mentions “Harold”by Daryl Bruce “Ms. P’s 5Ds”by Heather Debling “Soap”by Nedda Sarshar “Lemon Print Scarf”by Mina Sharif “Paulina”by Pamela Hensley “In the Western […]

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