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The New Quarterly Secures Two Silvers
The New Quarterly won double silver in Poetry and Personal Journalism at this year’s 42nd National Magazine Awards, securing the best showing by a Canadian literary magazine and ninth best overall. The magazine’s success was announced on May 31, 2019 in Toronto after more than 185 Canadian print and digital magazines put forth submissions in […]
Finding the Form with Natalie Southworth
When I started “The Realtor” my hope was to write a story where the reader wouldn’t feel compelled to judge any one of the main characters for what happens. No one would be blamed for the break down of the family. It would be a true tragedy in that way. To do this, I started […]
Stephen Maude’s Writing Space
Saturday morning and here I am sitting alone at Mitzi’s Café. That’s the way my narrator, an anxious cinephile named Emily, begins her story in “Happy Enough”, which appears in TNQ150. And that’s the way the story began for me as well – sitting alone in a café. “Happy Enough” is the third of my […]
Launched: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Welcome to the latest instalment of Launched, the series with the scoop on new books by Canadian authors. Alicia Elliott’s first book, an essay collection called A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, was published by Penguin Random House Canada this spring. A Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River living in Brantford, […]
What’s Alex Mackay Reading?
I am not imaginative, unfortunately. Neither creative nor inventive. Begrudgingly infertile with ideas. I envy the writer who wastes ideas like the autumn maple wastes leaves. Perhaps ideas are like anything else; they take practice. But perhaps too, I am not willing to put in the effort. You see, what I read, what inspires me […]
Julie Paul’s Writing Space
My writing space changes from day to day, just like what I eat for breakfast: routine is not my default. When it’s nice outside, I often take my notebook and/or laptop out, even if it means squinting at the screen. The historical, parental voice in my head that tells me to “get outside and play” […]
What is Glenna Anne Turnbull Reading?
I don’t think my grandfather knew he was creating an addict when he plunked a copy of Anne of Green Gables into my seven-year-old hands, but by the time I’d sounded my way through the pages, one word at a time, I was hooked on literature. And now, like any good addict, I have stashes […]
What is Robby MacPhail Reading?
I usually have several books in progress at any given time. The result is a pile of half-finished paperbacks on my bedside table. My wife periodically removes this pile, places the books into a drawer. She hates clutter. Afterwards, I come behind her and take them back out. I also hate clutter, but we disagree on the word’s definition. She […]
In Conversation with 2018 Peter Hinchcliffe Award Winner Katie Zdybel
Katie Zdybel was the winner of the 2018 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award for her story “The Last Thunderstorm Swim of the Summer” a coming of age story where a teen struggles with her late-blooming sexuality, feeling the weight of the cozy and perhaps stifling upbringing by her single mum, an academic who was more concerned […]
Finding the Form with Marilo Nunez
Welcome to the latest installation of “Finding the Form.” In this new series, contributors share how they found and developed the creative form for their recent work in The New Quarterly. You can find Marilo Nunez’s “We All Want to Change the World” in Issue 150. I am a new short story writer. I am […]