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Jay Ruzesky’s Writing Space

By Jay Ruzesky

This week we asked Jay Ruzesky, author of “The Narvarian Treaty” in Issue 133, to show us his writing space. Here’s what he decided to share!

“I can’t tell you where I write; let’s just say it’s a secret location on Vancouver Island and it’s just a little more discreet than the bat cave. If I showed it to you, you would have to ‘disappear into the witness protection program’. I can, however, show you the floor-to-ceiling, double-sided bookshelves that are the wall between my living room and my wife’s office. It’s not the shelves I couldn’t write without, but they hold the books I keep coming back to and which are food for my own work. I can’t do without a good pair of walking shoes – walking is thinking for me. And coffee, but that should go without saying.”

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The New Quarterly is based in Waterloo, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Neutral Peoples. We acknowledge that this land is part of the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations of the Grand River as part of the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784.

As a literary magazine devoted to storytelling, we recognize that stories have long been a way of knowing, preserving, and sharing in Indigenous cultures. We honour the generations of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples who have cared for these lands and continue to do so. We commit to listening, learning, and amplifying Indigenous voices, and to supporting pathways for truth and reconciliation through the stories we publish.

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