Online Exclusives
Kate Cayley’s Writing Space
I have a home office with a bed in it which doubles as a guest room twice a week (friends from out of town who have to be in Toronto one night a week for work, one working for the AGO, the other a farmer who sells at a market here). Of course, we don’t […]
Finding the Form with Jann Everard
It wasn’t until I was asked to consider writing this blog post that I appreciated the tortured history of “Watching Her Breath.” According to my records, my first version of a story set in the Marche region of Italy was drafted in the autumn of 2014, just after I’d returned from a two-week trip to […]
Kari Lund-Teigen’s Writing Space
This room sits just off the kitchen in my house. It faces south so on sunny days is full of light. Judging by its temperature in the winter, I think it used to be a porch. Tempting as it was, I did not tidy or alter the room before taking this picture. It captures so […]
Finding the Form with Fraser Calderwood
My story in TNQ, called “Raft,” started as a fragment in a journal. But the fragment itself never made it into the finished piece. I had been working on another piece, titled “Androids,” and I was really enjoying writing this character, the protagonist’s father, who was very much a caricature of my own dad. It […]
Finding the Form with Pearl Pirie
Since I write on computers, I don’t tend to have physical byproducts of process, but for one of the poems in this issue of TNQ, I have a photo of the moment I am describing. A terrible, grainy photo that even K.I.T.T. couldn’t enhance enough. The poem does the job though, I hope. At the […]
Amanda Jernigan’s Writing Space
These days I write from my Hiram-shack, which is to say, from my shack by the ramshackle sea. The reference is to the abode of Hiram, the banjo-playing protagonist of Richard Outram’s book Hiram and Jenny. I have a mouth organ rather than a banjo, but otherwise, same same. ‘Every work of art is a prophecy,’ […]
Finding the Form with Barbara Tran
I wrote the first draft of “Laws of Motion” at this desk, this desk which has followed me from Virginia to Vermont to Toronto to California and back to Toronto, where I look forward to rejoining it this August. For the time being, I am in California again. Outside the window, lavender trumpet vine dances […]
What is Kate Cayley Reading?
Right now (in the state of semi-isolation we’re all in), I tend to turn to writers who seem to view the world at a distance, who describe precisely without sentimentality, and who don’t lie, meaning who don’t indulge in emotional histrionics. Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, which I’ve never read even though I reread Mrs. […]
Jason Heroux’s Writing Space
A desk, a computer, a pen, and a couple of pads of paper – some scribbled, some blank, plus a cup of freshly ground French Roast coffee. A shy cat named Pablo behind the monitor. The window to the left lets in light, birdsong, and traffic-song, reminding me of the here-and-now, and on the wall […]
What is Theressa Slind Reading?
Concentrating during global pandemics is tricky, I’m learning, as is feeling a sense of control over one’s life. Who knew? The results: wall washing and fridge cleaning, reorganized book shelves, daughter’s bedroom painted a cheery Jamaican Aqua to replace the subfusc brown that came with the house over ten years ago (my brother tells me […]