Category Archives: TNQ Recommends

Our Lists Issue Contribs Recommend

these books. Based on their refs, I plan to pick up The Winter Vault and Solar, just as soon as I finish the stack on my bedside table…so probably sometime around Thanksgiving. Notably, in addition to a handful of titles, contributor Ben Murray recommends Tintin for Prime Minister, as “infinitely more animated and ethical than [...]

Arc Poetry Mag wants you to judge their contest (already!)

Because Arc Poetry Mag has moved their contest from a summer to a winter deadline, they are already seeking your vote for their Readers’ Choice selection of their 2010 contest. If you’d like to voice your opinion, download their pdf booklet of shortlisted poems, and send your top three picks to vote@arcpoetry.ca by April 5, [...]

TWS Getting Published Guide

Writer Ayelet Tsabari, a graduate of SFU’s Writing Studio program, has written a detailed guide on how to submit your work to literary magazines: she covers everything, from what to put in your cover letter to what to do with your rejection letters, and in this managing editor’s humble opinion, totally nails it. Of course, [...]

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

Countdown to the Lists Issue: This is the first of a series of posts celebrating the ‘lure of lists’ from now until the day the Lists Issue of TNQ is mailed (hopefully, about six weeks from now!). My review of Generation X, book number 11 in my Great Canadian Book Challenge, in three lists: 3 [...]

New digs for Pickle Me This!

Congratulations to Kerry Clare and the team at Create Me This on her blog’s fabulously beautiful new home, Picklemethis.com. I found my way to Kerry’s blog over a year ago, and read it regularly.  One of the reasons I like it, and like to recommend it, is that she reads widely, far beyond the bestseller [...]

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 [...]