Online Exclusives
Finding the Form with Geoff Martin
“The Isabel Letters” found its form super late in the drafting process. Which made it feel exactly right—the sudden realization that each short section should begin with a salutation of some sort, should gesture to the exchanges I’d been having with the writer Isabel Huggan for several years and that she’s been having with far […]
Finding the Form with Laurie D. Graham
They arrive in two ways. Either suddenly present before me, there in full, kablammo, and I’m scrambling to get it all affixed before it disappears or dissipates or morphs or whatever it does by its nature, that nature being beautifully fleeting. Or via a glacial (though I don’t think that adjective means what we hold […]
Finding the Form with Kirsteen Macleod
I have a digressive brain. The tangential, undisciplined, and wandering-spirited in language attracts me. But my current poetry project is requiring a brevity that’s uncharacteristic for me. How to find new concision? I’ve been inspired in part by a martial artist-writer friend who strikes people in the gut with incredible force, using both Krav Maga […]
What’s Samantha Jade Macpherson Reading?
Over the past year, I’ve been working my way through Yoko Ogawa. I started with Hotel Iris, an uneasy read about an unsettling relationship, then moved onto The Memory Police, about an island where inhabitants slowly lose their memories under a fascist police government, and have just finished her collection Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales. I’ve […]
Finding the Form with Amber Fenik
I feel that for myself, being a writer is akin to madness – or, the closest I’ll ever get to a permanently altered state of mind. I’ll be on my way to get groceries and suddenly the image of a man in a blue coat running through the woods during a thunderstorm will flash into […]
What’s Jill Solnicki Reading?
I first “met” Virginia Woolf at the end of high school, just before I began university—those two transitional months of summer between the end of adolescence and the beginning of young adulthood. I can picture myself, lying in the garden on the chaise lounge that July, opening Mrs. Dalloway, a book about which I knew […]
What’s Kimberly Peterson Reading?
I keep poetry books on my bedside table so that I can begin my day with a teaspoon of quiet reflection. Hand Shadows (Wintergreen Studio Press, 2024) sits on top of my stack these days. It captured my attention by featuring two of my favourite passions: poetry and dance. Susan Wismer responds poetically to dancers Michele […]
Michele Wong’s Writing Space
I am not always aware of my space when an idea comes along. As long as I have my phone, I can write these snippets anywhere. But for that very elongated time period when editing requires a quiet space, I prefer somewhere away from too many people and near a kettle (to make tea) which […]
TNQers Favourite Books Read In 2024
At the end of the year, we asked our TNQ community to share their favourite books read in 2024. Here is what they recommended: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah This powerful dystopian novel lays bare the failures of the prison system and suggests a path forward to meaningful change. Becky Blake The Adventures of […]
What’s Kathy Stinson Reading?
I recently finished reading A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch. I was drawn to the book by its title, then a little put off by its textbook-ish appearance — but this history of the world and the role of women in it from prehistory to the present day was anything but […]
