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The 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Longlist
Thank you to all of our 2019 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest entrants. Your poetry sparked powerful discussion and profound deliberation. Your work was a privilege and a treat to read, and provided us with some of the toughest competition we’ve seen yet. After careful deliberation, we are proud to announce this year’s longlisted poets […]
What is Virginia Boudreau Reading?
You know that uncomfortable feeling of Deja vu that occasionally causes you to pause? It’s one that revisited when the esteemed editorial team at TNQ wondered what book was currently gracing my nightstand. Hmmmmm, I could tell the truth and ignore the nervous rash climbing like an unpruned rugosa up my neck or be unapologetically […]
Finding the Form with Virginia Boudreau
“I must admit, I suffered significant angst wondering if I stole too much ‘heart’ away in the sculpting process. Some passages, relegated to my cemetery of lost words, are committed to rising again some day.” Poetry has always been my preferred medium and, initially at least, my pieces start out with the intention of becoming […]
What is K.D. Miller Reading?
Right now I’m reading three books: New and Selected Poems Volume Two by Mary Oliver; Diary of a Dead Man On Leave, a novel by David Downing; and Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith. I start each morning with two or three of the poems, read a chapter of the non-fiction […]
Where I Write.
“My first published story was written on our dining room table with my sons playing noisy war games around my feet.” I am a peripatetic writer: I have no one special writing space where functional fixedness reduces distraction. Instead, I have several but they all resemble each other: all present a large surface—I’m an inveterate […]
What is Marilo Nuñez Reading?
“I seem to be reading a lot of books about craft and creation of work lately, which is always the case when I am in the middle of a writing project.” I’m currently reading a few things. I don’t think I have the time to just focus on one book at a time, nowadays! Signs […]
Virginia Boudreau’s Writing Space
“I’m grateful for this hallowed spot that has inspired and contained so many pleasurable hours of wordplay and growing into the writer I’ve always wanted to become.” I wish I had “a room of one’s own” but for now, my preferred writing space is a shared one. I have it all to myself first thing […]
What is David Waltner-Toews Reading?
Let me begin with what I’ve been reading in the last two months which, now that I look back, is typical. I am writing this on May 23rd, so from March 23 until today the books I’ve read were Moon of the Crusted Snow (Waybgeshig Rice), My Last Continent (Midge Raymond), Toronto the Wild: Field […]
Finding the Form with David Waltner-Toews
When I was younger, I always wrote poetry, usually for occasions such as birthdays. In college I aspired to write great novels, and finished a couple that ended up in a drawer or a box somewhere. I never properly trained myself in the skills of long-fiction. This was the sixties. Didn’t the skills just happen? […]
Jennifer Lynn Dunlop’s Writing Space
This is the place I set up to be my writing nook. I love the elegant secretary, its curves and secret compartments. But I will admit it, here is where I usually write, with my laptop on my lap. Being comfortable and writing with a tea beside me on my bedside table – that’s the best way. […]