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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
The 2020 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Winners
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest! Winner “The Medium of the Archive” by Elizabeth Dauphinee Runner-up “Terrorist Mythologies” by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt Honourable Mention “The Wounded Man” by Lisa Martin Notable Essays To appear in a later issue “Generation Congee” by Donna Seto “Human Touch” by Doley […]
Blaze Island by Catherine Bush: Q&A with Mahak Jain
Catherine Bush (www.catherinebush.com) is an award-winning, bestselling and New York Times Notable Book author of five novels. Her most recent novel, Blaze Island, is Shakespeare-inspired and tackles issues of climate change. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph and the coordinator of the Toronto-based creative writing MFA program. Below, she is in conversation with past student […]
What is Colette Maitland Reading?
I recently finished reading Death and the Seaside, by Alison Moore (Biblioasis, 2019). A spare book, just 179pp, Death and the Seaside certainly packs both literary and psychologically thrilling punches. The novel’s ‘action’ unfolds through the alternating points of view of three female characters. We begin with Susan, herself a character within a story that […]
The 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest! First Place ($1000) “Afterbirth” by Anne Marie Todkill Second Place ($500) “Rim” by Mia Anderson Third Place ($250 each) “Sword on the Road” by Pamela Mordecai “On Not Seeing Rocher Percé…” by Anne Swannell Honourable Mentions (to be published alongside […]
What is Laurie D. Graham Reading?
My job has always made the reading I do a little scrappy, a little piecemeal. Months of pandemic have exacerbated that: my time spent reading is modulating widely—for a while, all I do is read, then I can’t read at all—and I’ve been starting into more books than usual these past weeks. Maybe a disconcerting […]
On Isabella Wang
Isabella Wang was born in Shandong, China, and lived in Beijing until the age of seven when she immigrated with her parents to Vancouver, British Columbia. A lifelong reader and aspiring writer, she volunteered at Room Magazine for their 2018 Growing Room Literary Festival. While working as an intern, she curated and published an interview […]
The 2020 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist
The New Quarterly is proud to announce the longlisted submissions to the 2020 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award contest. The longlisted writers and their stories are as follows: “Hyacinth Girl” by Lisa Alward “Milting” by A. L. Bishop “Don’t Speak” by Megan Callahan “Count Your Blessings” by Heather Debling “Turo” by Ellie Ellias “The Oil Change” […]
Pacific Spirit: A Photo Essay
PACIFIC SPIRIT A Photo Essay By SUSAN OLDING Most days, I walk in Pacific Spirit Regional Park. The park surrounds the University Endowment Lands near Point Grey, Vancouver, and borders the Georgia Strait. Thirty years ago, when it opened, Pacific Spirit was praised as one of the largest urban parks in Canada. The xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) […]
The 2020 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest Longlist
The New Quarterly is proud to announce the longlisted submissions to the 2020 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. The longlisted writers and their essays are as follows: “Terrorist Mythologies” by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt “What We Know By Feeling” by Colin Brezicki “The Deer’s Cry” by Agnes Cserhati “The Medium of the Archive” by Elizabeth Dauphinee “In Pleasantville” […]