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The 2022 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2022 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. The longlisted writers and their stories are as follows: “Not the Star, but the Foil” by Rayne Weinstein “Derelict” by Jessica Sims “Bonnie” by Morgan Dick “Animals in Captivity” by K. R. Segriff “You Should Get a […]
The 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest! Winner “Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery Runner-Up “Fugue” by Callista Markotich Third Place (tie) “Agincourt, 1415” by Finley Mullally “The Body Translates an Old Story” by Grace Vermeer Honourable Mentions “Birth Crasher” by Leesa Dean “Testimony, […]
Review: If I Didn’t Love the River by Robert Priest
I don’t know why I was surprised to learn that Robert Priest is now as old as I am (71). I suppose it’s the fact that his poetry is still as energetic, audacious, and wild as it ever was, a fact reaffirmed by If I Didn’t Love the River, his most recent collection. Consulting his […]
What is Rebecca Papucaru Reading?
When I was a teaching assistant at the University of Nice, on exchange from the University of Toronto, my library was a small cabinet in the corner of the small office where my fellow teaching assistants, or lecteurs, left behind their books. That year I discovered the pleasure of restriction, of reading outside of algorithms. […]
Finding the Form with Robert Priest
I was introduced at an early age to formal poetry and wrote occasional verses throughout my childhood usually of the British children’s poem variety. I enjoyed this but the discovery of free verse in my teens was very liberating to my process. Fifty some odd years later most of my published work for adults (other […]
The 2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the 2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist! The longlisted writers and their essays are as follows: 2022 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist “Scenes from a Frenchip: my tongue is a home but they won’t let me stay” by sabrien amrov “Archival Record AN1940s” by Kate Bird “The Seventh Pillar” by […]
The 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest! The longlisted poets and their poems are as follows: 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist ♦ “January 27, 2022” by Denise Blinn ♦ “Birth Crasher” by Leesa Dean ♦ “Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery ♦ “Testimony, March 3 […]
Chris Kuriata’s Writing Space
My writing space is always changing locations, depending on where I am in my life. When I lived alone, in the basement apartment of a creepy building in Regina, Saskatchewan, I wrote at a round oak table, typing on a computer, usually while my cat, Manna, napped on the warm roof of the I-Mac. When […]
Between Two Houses
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Between Two Houses by Leila Safari It was a dark night in the middle of summer; we were visiting our family for a holiday in the north of Iran. We were staying at my uncle Ahmad’s house. But we had finished our games and […]
My Cake Lesson
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. My Cake Lesson by Tamara Cooper Once when I was 15, I went to my friend Jenny’s house after school to do our integrated science assignment, which was due the following day. Jenny, who didn’t like doing homework, decided to bake a cake instead […]
