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Miranda Hill in the news
When we saw and accepted Miranda Hill’s story “Rise: A Requiem” for the QuArc issue, I confess we were thinking Journey Prize winner. And so it was with mixed emotion that we heard she is short-listed for this year’s prize, our giddy excitement for the successes elsewhere of everyone we publish—but especially of those writers [...]
On Poetry & Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving this weekend past, my favorite holiday, because, in our family at least, it’s all about feasting and friends, feasting and friends and thankfulness, something of which there’s sometimes a shortage in our lives, squeezed out by the daily stresses (the issue is late, our bank balance is dwindling, wonderful Contest Catherine’s time with us [...]
The loss of a great spirit, Robert Kroetsch (1927-2011)
On Tuesday of last week Robert Kroetsch, the presiding spirit of Alberta letters, died of injuries received in a car accident. He was 83. (See The Edmonton Journal) The obituaries sang his praises as novelist and poet but also as teacher, mentor, friend. Colleagues and fellow writers described him as a generous and loving man, [...]
We’re all about good news!
It’s hard to keep up with the exploits of TNQ’s writers, artists, and editors. Most recently, we were thrilled to hear that two New Quarterly writers were among the eight Canadians—nine if you count, as you should, Clark Blaise, his book published by a Canadian press to boot—long-listed for the 2011 Frank O’Connor International Short [...]
E-readers—will they change how we read?
I was recently asked to respond to a series of questions from The Winnipeg Review, a new on-line journal, on e-books and e-publishing and their effect on traditional magazine publishing. These are the sort of crystal-ball questions that have been troubling the whole publishing infrastructure of late, and I’m not sure I was any better [...]
Spring Song
It’s well into April in southern Ontario and spring is taking its time. Last week, after what we thought was the last melt of the season, it started to snow, huge loonie-sized flakes that laid down 2 inches of the white stuff in no time and in the midst of which—BOOM!—thunder and lightning. I went [...]
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