Category Archives: TNQ Recommends

Another Mighty Small Mag: Bywords

Thanks to Amanda Earl for taking time out of (I imagine, thanks to the below!) an extraordinarily busy day to tell us all about Bywords.
What does a day at the Bywords look like?
Bywords.ca is a volunteer non profit organization with the volunteers working primarily on line from Australia, Toronto and Ottawa. There are a [...]

Who’s Reading What

As each new issue of TNQ rolls off the press, our intrepid Postscripts Editor Amy King writes its contributors to ask what they’re reading. With a few exceptions, it seems the contributors to our Winter issue, No. 113: Matters of the Heart, are reading some pretty sombre, but powerful, stuff. Check it out—especially if [...]

The magic of language

Last weekend, I joined roughly 130 people who came out on a Friday night to listen to poetry.  I was at the London Poetry Slam, which gathers on the third Friday of every month, in the cellar lounge of the London Music Club.  Something you should know about the cellar lounge is that it’s not [...]

Mighty Small Mag: The Puritan

And on the heels of the CPF announcement, I meet a new small mag, The Puritan, by way of Melissa.  I’d really like to showcase all of our fellow small arts and literaries here on the blog before “changing market conditions” force us out of print, or out of publishing altogether.  If you’ve got [...]

Mark Your Calendar

If you live in (or anywhere close to) the Waterloo region, you should know that St. Jerome’s University, home to TNQ, has an excellent reading series. Like most people, I’m always a little intimidated at the prospect of navigating a campus new to me. However, St. Jerome’s is more like the average high school (in [...]

Re-runs Versus Re-reads

So, as I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I love tv almost as much I love books. I realized recently that my tv habits are the exact inverse of my reading habits. When someone hands me a must-read, I don’t hesitate. Yet I exercise extreme caution in adding a new tv show to my viewing [...]