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Come “behave badly” with us tonight
Today is Humberto’s last day at TNQ HQ, as he’ll be back to classes for the summer term. So tonight’s issue launch party is not only a celebration of 4 fabulous writers we’ve published, an incredibly interesting and diverse issue of the magazine (there’s a short story within about a woman who has an affair [...]
Lakeland
The One Book One Community selection of the year has just been announced: this year, Waterloo region will be reading Lakeland by Allan Casey. Casey attended the unveiling virtually from Saskatoon, reading a selection from the book from atop a frozen Saskatchewan lake (where he had attempted, for some reason, to cut through the ice [...]
Congratulations are in order
The shortlist for the Alberta literary awards has been posted, and there is good news for many TNQ writers: Lisa Martin-deMoor [TNQ # 120], winner of last year’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest is nominated for the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction for her winning essay, “A Container of Light.” Alice Major [119] [...]
Friday the 13th is a great day for poetry
If you’re in the mood for a little something different to do on a Friday night, join me at the London Poetry Slam Finals this Friday, April 13, at the Palace Theatre, (one of the most beautiful venues in London, Ontario). Roughly 200 people will show up at the theatre to listen to poetry, as [...]
Shut up and write
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a class to which K. D. Miller [issue #116] was invited as a guest speaker. She talked a little about the title story from her 1994 collection, A Litany in Time of Plague. She speaks about her characters as if they were real people: Raymond [...]
Congratulations to Kim Jernigan
Kim, TNQ’s editor, spends a lot of time bragging about the many successes of TNQ writers. It’s our turn to congratulate Kim: she’ll be receiving the Women of Waterloo Arts Award this Wednesday, March 28 at the WOW awards banquet at the Waterloo Inn (tickets are $50). Kim’s not in the office today, but if [...]
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