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The 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Results
The New Quarterly is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest! Winner “Abecedarian with Sharpened Vision” by Dagne Forrest Runner-Up “Mondays with My Dad” by Linda Hatfield Second Runner-Up “Ah see it all wit’ mih own two eyes” Simon Peter Eggertsen Honourable Mentions “Year of the Tiger” by William Ross “The […]
Finding the Form with Alanna Marie Scott
Relevance snuck up on me. I wrote In the Bowers in 2018, sitting on a towel on my fourth floor balcony, looking out at a grid of parking lots and alleys, listening to Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevens on repeat. It was spring, and unseasonably warm. At the time I was interested in acute […]
Finding the Form with Susan Glickman
When I taught creative writing, I always said that poetry and prose are built of the same elements: the horizontal axis of narrative time, in which events succeed each other according to causality, and the vertical axis of lyric time, in which a single moment expands infinitely as one explores it. The difference between the […]
Bobbie Jean Huff’s Writing Space
I started my first novel when I lived in Canada, working on it in the Ottawa library. When I moved to the US I found myself with an extra room in the house, the perfect place for a study. Still, I wrote in the library, where I was one of a number of serious people […]
Richard Owen’s Writing Space
Where I do the writing, the putting of words on the white space, is unremarkable, a bedroom turned into an office in our sixties-era bungalow. But that’s not where the real work happens. I do that in Odell Park, 320 acres of woodland in the heart of Fredericton, on the great sloping side of the […]
Emma Hooper’s Writing Space
Some people don’t like a window where they work; they point their desks away from them. If I don’t have a window it’s kind of like not being able to breath. I point myself straight at mine and keep tabs on the birds. Sometimes I see groups of young teenagers too. We’re on some kind […]
The 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist
Thank you to all of our 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest entrants. After thorough consideration, we are excited to announce this year’s longlisted writers and their phenomenal poetry. The longlisted poets and their poems are as follows: Susan Atkinson, “Kiss Me Again Like The Second Time “ Lisa Borkovich, “The Love Song of Grindstone Marsh” […]
Finding the Form with Janeen Werner-King
“Migrations” was inspired after I witnessed a field full of trumpeter swans covered in snow beside the Courtney River in British Columbia. After returning to Calgary, I didn’t write about my experience for several months, and then, in a Wordsworth-like moment of tranquility, I recalled my excitement and amazement of seeing so many swans all […]
What is Kayal Vizhi Reading?
What initially led you to pick up the book, and what kept you hooked? I’m reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. I picked it up a few years ago and I put it away without finishing it. But the writer and poet Ocean Vuong talks about Moby Dick as one of the books he needed to […]
Joe Davies’ Writing Space
My writing space is a disaster – a happy disaster. My desk is home to all sorts of things. There are assorted piles of paper and various notes scribbled on envelopes. There are a couple of Hot Wheels and toy soldiers and a few small gifts people have given me, which include a ceramic nose […]