Online Exclusives
The 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlisted submissions to the 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. The longlisted poets and their poems are as follows: “Bones”; “Lazarus Saturday”; “Rim”; and “The Body’s Dues” by Mia Anderson “Reading Palms” by Susan J. Atkinson “Movie Review” by Murray Citron “Dam” and “Oil Spill at Wabamun” by […]
Finding the Form with Vivian Hansen
“This Twilight is Strangely Liminal” Poetry is almost always my creative medium of choice. I wrote this poem in pre-pandemic times, but as the twilight of all we are accustomed to drew near, I am growing closer to this poem. Let’s call it prophetic, as poetry seems always to hold a prophetic element. In my […]
Ryan Paterson’s Writing Spaces
I’ve never been able to write at home. Too many distractions. There’s the TV, the internet and its endless chess games, dishes that need to be done. The digital clock on the stove. That’s not to mention the greatest distraction of all: loved ones. For this reason, social isolation has presented a unique (though by […]
What is Jerri Jerreat Reading?
What am I reading? That is difficult. There are books piled beside my bed in various states of being read. I noticed the other day, picking up a Tamora Pierce YA fantasy novel downstairs and reading a good chunk in the middle, that it was echoing themes in Crow Winter, a beautiful, contemporary novel by […]
One in the Bow and One in the Stern: Robert Reid and Wesley W. Bates on Casting Their Collaboration
Robert Reid is a writer whose career in journalism spanned forty years. Wesley W. Bates is one of Canada’s best-known wood engravers (whose work appeared on the cover of The New Quarterly’s Issue 138). Both are avid fly fishers. Casting into Mystery, published by The Porcupine’s Quill in February 2020, tackles their love of angling […]
True Story: An Interview with Eufemia Fantetti
Award-winning writer, Humber Literary Review (HLR) editor and writing prof extraordinaire Eufemia Fantetti released My Father, Fortunetellers and Me: A Memoir to great acclaim in 2019—the Toronto launch a spectacular blend of Italian hospitality, riveting tarot readings, and Eufemia’s not-to-be-missed on-stage interview with her father. TNQ subscribers can read an excerpt from the book here. […]
Deborah Vail’s Writing Space
My office is an eclectic space, or as some have described it, a clutter. I found an antique oak desk on Craigslist for an empty bedroom. A few days later, my oldest son brought me a chaise lounge of the same vintage. From the basement I dragged up an old rug with black background and […]
Finding the Form with Kate Cayley
Doc took shape when I was listening to a lot of Townes Van Zandt and then looked him up. He was a brilliant wreck most of the time and at the end was looked after by his producer’s younger brother. There was a quote in which he said Van Zandt was his first child. Van […]
What is Kari Lund-Teigen Reading?
My to-read list is miles deep, the order haphazard, determined in large part by when my holds come in at the library. On March 13th, Aleksander Hemon’s My Parents/This Does Not Belong to You arrived for me at my branch. I was busy that day: stocking up on groceries, looking after a kid at home […]
Pearl Pirie’s Writing Space
My real writing room is between my ears, and on nearest piece or paper, or lately something digital since a broken wrist has wreaked havoc with my already iffy handwriting. I write wherever I can find my laptop or phone. I may have to lift a cat or dog to find them, or I may […]