Category Archives: TNQ Writers in the News
Cynthia Brouse Taught Me a Lot of Things
One afternoon two years ago at TNQ HQ, I was delighted to hear Kim mention Cynthia Brouse. Her piece “Doris and Me,” was in the issue then heading toward the printers, No 108: Assorted Pedestrians. I readily spilled all to Kim and Rosalynn about the memories I had of Cynthia as an instructor; hers was [...]
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 [...]
Katherine Govier’s Long Goodbye
Katherine Govier has been talking to ghosts. Well, a ghost: Oei, daughter of the Japanese print-maker Hokusai, the protagonist of her latest novel. Now, after five years of writing, research, and travel, the novel is out in bookstores—and so the author finds she has to say goodbye. Here, to my great delight, she talks about [...]
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 [...]
Wild Writers keep winning
Back in 2000, The New Quarterly put together a symposium of “Wild Writers We have Known,” to which we invited, well, wild writers (some established and some in the early stages of their careers), whose work we subsequently published in issue XXI numbers 2 & 3 (thank goodness we don’t use that numbering system any [...]
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