Category Archives: TNQ Out & About
I’m on Desk Space!
Yes, really. Evie Christie temporarily took leave of her senses and asked me to be on her fabulous blog, Desk Space. It’s a Q&A-style blog on which she asks writers/literary ‘professionals’ of my ilk where they like to work, and why. It’s fascinating—even inspirational, especially if you’re the type of person who gets bored with [...]
One Book, One Best Laid Plan Bus Tour
In case you missed it, here’s Bruce Johnstone, our Tour organizer, with a recap: Well, we laid out our best plans for this year’s New Quarterly bus tour and, lo and behold, they worked! We were a small but engaged group of readers and political junkies who gathered on Saturday morning (19 June). The bus [...]
Smallies Rule!
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 [...]
Congratulations, Elisabeth Hay!
This year’s National Magazine Award nominees were announced today, and she’s The New Quarterly‘s one and only, for “City as Redhead” in the Best Short Feature category and “Last Poems” in the Personal Journalism category. Congratulations as well to all of our fellow nominees, but especially to our fellow smalls, notably Fiddlehead (5 noms!), Queen’s [...]
Good News for Poetry Lovers
The Southwestern Ontario Poetry Festival is on this weekend in London, ON. Catch a stellar pair of poets at London Music Club—2009 Spoken Word Canada Poets of Honour, in fact—Andrea Thompson and C.R. Avery tomorrow night. Doors open at 7:30; performance starts at 8. (Read their impressive bios here.) On Saturday, there is an impressive [...]
Missed Patricia Young’s reading? Hear it here!
This week Patricia Young graced the University of Waterloo with a poetry reading on her small southern Ontario tour. The Victoria, B.C., poet and fiction writer is the author of nine books – eight of poetry and one of short fiction. A two-time Governor General’s Award-nominee, Patricia has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the [...]
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