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More Good news: Danuta Gleed Award shortlist
The shortlist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award is out. The $10 000.00 prize is awarded for the best debut Canadian short-story collection (in English) of the previous year. This year, not only are 3/5 of the short-listed collections by TNQ writers, they also contain stories first published in our pages. The shortlist: • [...]
Indie Lit Night!
On May 15, several of Canada’s most acclaimed independent presses, BookThug, Coach House Books, ECW Press and House of Anansi will team up with local publisher Blaurock Press for a multi-author book launch at the Starlight Lounge (47 King Street North). The annual event, organized by Waterloo’s finest bookseller, Words Worth Books and The New [...]
Office Chatter March/April Edition
With Context Melissa, searching frantically for something in the office, while doing a bit of a dance: “Ugh. This is a sign that I should not make important decisions while I am trying not to pee myself.” (The bathroom is a very long outdoor walk away.) Pamela calls Humberto over to her desk for some [...]
TNQ shortlisted for Five National Magazine Awards!
I am very pleased to announce that TNQ has been shortlisted for 5 National Magazine Awards in 3 categories this year. Three of the nominations were for work found in the QuArc issue, while the other two nominations were for the winning poems from our Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest and the winning essay from [...]
Can you tell the difference between Canlit and made-for-tv movies?
CBC thinks that the plots of Canlit novels are akin to soap operas. I hadn’t really thought about it, given how many canonical Canadian novels are about coming-of-age or anxiety about the weather, so I permitted CBC’s quiz to prove it to me: they’ve mixed up the plot synopses of 10 “great Canadian novels” with [...]
Oh hey, didn’t see you there!
My name is Charlotte and I’m the new summer intern with The New Quarterly. Officially, I’m working as the Circulation Assistant and the Contest Manager, but unofficially, I hope the exposure to so much great writing will rub off on me and improve my craft. I hail from Halifax, where I have just completed my [...]
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