Online Exclusives
Announcing the 2020 Wild Writers Literary Festival: Going Wild Online!
The New Quarterly is proud to announce the 2020 Wild Writers Literary Festival. The festival will take place online via Zoom and wildwriters.ca from November 1 to November 21, 2020. The Wild Writers Literary Festival is presented by The New Quarterly, Words Worth Books, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). By moving to […]
Deb Stark’s Writing Space
Once upon a time, I wrote in shared spaces – my local library, a couple of coffee shops and my favourite space of all, upstairs in the independent bookstore where writers were invited to congregate on Monday mornings for a silent, productive 120 minutes. (shout out to the BookShelf in Guelph) Of course, that was […]
Finding the Swamp with David Huebert
The news was wildfires. The news was “The Amazon is burning.” The news was Greta, Greta, Greta. Newsfeeds were shredding. The world was imploding, maybe it always had been. “Swamp Things” started as an attempt to reckon with a gasping world. Conceived and begun shortly after my second child was born and in the midst […]
What is Margaret Nowaczyk Reading?
The pandemic has done a number on my writing—I have not been able to concentrate at all, my motivation out the window. Thankfully, I have been able to read and read voraciously: classics I never had time for (Middlemarch dragged on like molasses, Moby Dick shocked me with its final image), classic I am rereading (The Magic Mountain, The […]
What is Scott Armstrong Reading?
American crime noir is a fascinating genre that has lost much of his reputation and popularity. The number of novels that some of these forgotten novelists have published is staggering. As was their mostly lasting poverty. The grit and uncertainty of this specific time period, and in many cases, the naivety of its young culture […]
Marilyn Gear Pilling’s Writing Space
Intense colour has been a primary pleasure of my life. When the children left home, I turned the dining room, which has doors, into a space for myself. One wall a pure darkish-blue, the opposite wall, tomato red. Above the plate rack, Mayan gold. A large vase of flowers that picks up those colours. An […]
What is Meg Todd Reading?
Just before book stores and the like closed due to Covid19, I paid $6.00 for The Sound and the Fury in the second-hand bookshop up the road. “Have fun with that,” the shopkeeper said. One is never sure which way to take her words. I once brought in four boxes of used books and she […]
Nicholas Bradley’s Writing Space
My desk is uncharacteristically tidy these days because my writing space has become my Zoom “studio.” Normally the stacks of books would be taller, the pile of papers overgrown, but this corner of the basement is now, in the time of the pandemic, my virtual teaching space. I’m fortunate to have it, and grateful. The […]
Finding the Form with Eva-Lynn Jagoe
When Vinh Nguyen asked me to write something for “Scatterings,” I felt so honoured because the writing in that series has been so amazing. In trying to find the form of a piece, I find that I tend to write with a particular reader in mind. For “The Finca,” I was thinking of Vinh, who […]
The 2020 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Winners
The New Quarterly is proud to announce the winners of the 2020 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award! Winner “Moon Sign” by Joshua Wales Runners-up “Count Your Blessings” by Heather Debling “The Place of Broken Glass” by Sarah Wishloff Honourable Mentions “Hyacinth Girl” by Lisa Alward “Till I’m Me Again” by Joshua Wales