Author Archives: Kim

Smallies Rule!

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You can find this in TNQ Out & About, TNQ Writers in the News, The New Quarterly (our print mag) | Written by Kim

I was delighted on Friday night to see Elisabeth Hay’s “City as Redhead” win the National Magazine Award gold medal for Best Short Feature. There aren’t many upscale events in the life of a small magazine editor, but the National Magazine Awards, held at the swanky art deco era Carlu theatre in Toronto, is one [...]

Surrogate Selves

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You can find this in Lists Issue Countdown | Written by Kim

Writing my introduction to our upcoming Lists Issue got me reflecting on my own recent experience with the genre. My father died a year ago February, and I spent several weeks last summer cleaning out his home of 50 plus years. It was a big job as both my parents were savers. I brought home [...]

What makes an essay personal?

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You can find this in TNQ Insider's Guide, Writing | Written by Kim

The deadline for TNQ’s contests is coming up, and I’m told, with a month to go, we have a flood of occasional verse submissions and only a trickle of personal essays. In part, this was expected—most poets have an occasional verse or two, unpublished, kicking around in their drawer. Pull it out, provide a frame, [...]

Bingo!

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You can find this in TNQ Out & About | Written by Kim

I arrived in the TNQ office this morning to the following message from Phil Bast, former Arts Editor of our regional newspaper, The Record, now a videographer and a member of TNQ’s governing board: From today’s Facts & Arguments page in The Globe, with thanks to Janet [a local history librarian, also on our board] [...]

New Quarterly Road Trip

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You can find this in Writing | Written by Kim

While Melissa was enjoying the hot tub in wine country and learning about circ, I made the trip to Ottawa (28 below plus wind-chill factor) for the launch of our winter issue. I flew on Bearskin airlines, a small (16 seater?) prop plane with a ceiling so low you have to bend at the waist [...]

The Star in P.K. Page

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You can find this in TNQ Writers in the News, Writing | Written by Kim

It seems appropriate that I learned about the death of P.K. Page [The photo of her is by Barbara Pedrick, courtesy of Porcupine's Quill Press.] from Barbara Carter, TNQ’s chief poetry editor, whom I ran into when out to lunch—a rare outing for me—with poet Erin Noteboom. We were a trio for whom that death [...]

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