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Eleonore Schönmaier’s Writing Space
I work in a room with a garden view. I own neither room nor garden, but I have a key. From a dumpster I pulled out a small red-legged school table, and transported it by bicycle. I added a chair with a red seat. This is how my work in the room began. I’ve since found a […]
What’s Glenn Willmott Reading?
“I went cold all over when I saw who it was—Joel! He stood in the doorway, his big gentle eyes never wavering from my face, looking so thin and tired. He was so different from Jack, I saw in that first glance; Joel was part woman, but Jack was all man.” Trashy romance. Not “trashy […]
What’s Stephen J. Price Reading?
My 2025 goal is to read books I should have read by now. The first three installments are 100 Years of Solitude, The Woman in White and The Fifth Season (this one ended up on the list because I found it at a thrift store for $3.00 and I’ve always wanted to read it.) But before getting […]
Finding the Form with MJ Malleck
Penance took six years to reveal itself to me, and because it kept me at the drafting board, it also taught me about my personal writing process. I notice, now, my reflex tendencies, and can choose to follow or subvert them with each new piece. I began writing the story in 2018. I’d visited Getty […]
Celebration of Love: Reading Recommendations
To celebrate Valentine’s day, TNQ has collected a variety of works from our latest issues, 171, 172, and 173. The chosen stories focus on love and relationships in all of their varieties and complexities. These reads will be available, regardless of subscription status, until February 21 for our audience to enjoy! Poetry “Swan Dive” by […]
Christina Wells’ Writing Space
Writing space. Just saying these two words out loud gets me a little agitated. They bring up vague but strong feelings around securing space, fighting for space, sharing space, paying for space — hard work, guilt, scrambling, trying to settle. I like Mary Oliver’s gentle prodding in her book, “A Poetry Handbook.” She writes about […]
Braedan Houtman’s Writing Space
My desk is against a wall—actually, two walls. I used to have it against a window. That didn’t work well. I don’t understand how people can have desks against windows. My apartment is on the third floor and looks directly across at another (much nicer) building. There is a parking garage, a sidewalk, and an […]
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 […]
