The 2024 Wild Writers Festival Reading List

We can’t wait to see you at the 2024 Wild Writers Festival! In the meantime, check out the festival reading list to get ready for our programming. All books are available for purchase through our partner, Words Worth Books.  Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke In this stunning debut story collection set largely in Nigeria, […]

Finding the Form with Adrian Markle

I feel like I’ve been writing this story forever. Not as long as Mark Anthony Jarman’s forty years, but still.  In 2011, I came to the UK for a Master’s degree after leaving UVic, planning to write a collection of short fiction. My MA supervisors dissuaded me from this, though, and told me to write […]

What’s Marco Melfi Reading?

On a recent trip to Toronto, I picked up Catriona Wright’s latest poetry collection Continuity Errors (Coach House Books). There was a fitting continuity to that, as I had bought Wright’s first book Table Manners (Signal Editions) from the same Queen Books shop years before. As for errors, I spilled coffee all over that copy. […]

What’s Nadja Lubiw-Hazard Reading?

One of my summer projects this year was to take a course on nature journalling, something I’ve always wanted to do, because of my life-long love of nature and animals. I just finished the final lesson in Nature Journaling and Field Sketching, delivered online through Cornell Lab Bird Academy, a day or two ago. It […]

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The 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Contest Winners

The New Quarterly is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award! Winner “The Dead Mothers”by Candice May Runners-up “Lost Girls”by Amber Fenik “Beyond Beauty and Death”by Michele Wong Honourable Mentions “Twin Talk”by Courtney Bill “Nat in New York”by James Dunnigan “Solstice”by Kathleen Keenan “A Sensitive Man Drinks Yellow Flowers”by Curtis McRae […]

Tam Eastley’s Writing Space

In order to write, I need a playlist, a timer, and my desk. I write best in the mornings before work. By the evening I’m normally too braindead. Two friends recently told me that they can write until 2am and I wish I could do that, it sounds so cool, so magical, but I’m definitely […]

The 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist

The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. After thorough consideration, we are excited to announce this year’s longlisted writers and their phenomenal stories.

What’s Natalie Hryciuk Reading?

I’ve always enjoyed reading a blend of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. A few years ago, I began reading a series of non-fiction books about the history of Ukraine, where my family originates. I wanted to know more about the political and historical events that have shaped Ukraine, and how these forces shaped my parents and, […]

Finding the Form with Glenn Clifton

I tinkered with “Soil Samples” story for years, mainly making cuts—my favourite part of the revision process is cutting and tightening. The story was close to its current form before the pandemic, before anti-vaxxers seemed to be so close to the centre of public debate. The story originated from an abstract insight: that if someone […]

Finding the Form with Molly McCarron

My stories often start from an initial image of characters. They’re already busy somewhere, doing something, and I follow them to see where they’ll take me. This time, it was the couple on the bus tour I saw first. I knew the couple was only understanding part of what was going on around them: a […]