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The 2021 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlisted submissions to the 2021 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. The longlisted poets and their poems are as follows: Frances Boyle, “Ultramarine” Kieran Egan, “Latin class” Susanne Fletcher, “Airing Evora’s Laundry” Marilyn Gear Pilling, “The Day (Long Tall Sally)” Cornelia Hoogland, “Obit for Touch” and “The Leonids follow […]
What is Jody Mason Reading?
I just finished reading Kaie Kellough’s collection Dominoes at the Crossroads (Véhicule, 2020), published in 2021 by Boréal as Petits Marronages. I read Kellough’s Griffin Prize-winning Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart, 2019) earlier this year. I was first drawn to Kellough’s work because of its uniqueness: much of the black diasporic writing from Quebec (where […]
My Super Hero
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. My Super Hero by Cynara Li The story I am about to tell happened in the biggest train station of Beijing, China. In the middle of the central hall, I was sitting on top of some newspapers that I found beside a garbage […]
The Christmas Goat
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Christmas Goat by Scilla Owusu-Amoah I am nine years old. It’s Christmas time in Accra, Ghana and as kids we all know what that means—Daddy comes alive at Christmas time. Today he is playing Boney M loudly on the speakers inside and does […]
A Bouquet of Flowers from God
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. A Bouquet of Flowers from God by Zohreh I was 21 years old. I was a student in Mechanical Engineering in Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, the capital city of Iran and I was in love. Yes, I was 21 when I […]
Socks
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Socks by Wafa Agha I am there in the car with my dad and my sister, her name is Hadeel. A very beautiful sunny morning with a delicate breeze. I am six years old, in grade one. It’s the first day of school. […]
The Key Story
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Key Story by Margit This is the Key. I am standing in the front room of our cosy condominium in Budapest. It is a hot July day. The sharp sunshine is floating into the room from the window in front of me. […]
Little Things
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Little Things by Leman Koca For the past two months, I had been looking forward to the day I would move to this new house in Kitchener. While I wrapped glasses and plates and other items one by one, I was surprised at […]
Les Lunettes de Papa
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Les Lunettes de Papa by Laetitia Dongmo My dad is scary. Picture a man who wears a suit and a tie six days a week, is always on the phone, usually yelling at someone because they didn’t do what they were supposed to. […]
Labour Day
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Labour Day by Batoul Kharbutli I’m a pregnant woman expecting to deliver my twins next Monday. I had told my doctor I wanted my second baby to be a natural birth. My pregnancy is a result of an in-vitro process and because it […]
