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Retreat! Retreat!
Ahh, the familiar battle cry of an army under siege, you say. Wrong. This is the battle cry of a writer under siege. A writer’s desperate plea for silence, no distractions, a time to step off the grid for days, a week, or longer. To think, write, and maybe get some sleep. Not long ago, [...]
Amanda Jernigan shortlisted for prestigious award
It’s bragging time again. One of our favourite things at TNQ is waving the banner for our writers or editors who have been nudged into the limelight. This time we’re waving it for TNQ contributing editor Amanda Jernigan, whose debut book of poetry Groundwork, has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award given to [...]
Wow! What a night
It isn’t often that we have the opportunity to come out from behind our desks, put on some swanky clothes and hobnob with the great and good of our community. But last week we did just that. We were bursting with excitement and pride as we stepped out to celebrate our own Kim Jernigan as [...]
Great Expectations
After a public lecture Joseph Boyden gave at Wilfrid Laurier University last week, he was asked some tough questions. As a matter of fact his answer to many who came to the microphone (often beginning with a lengthy preface detailing their own experience), was “Tough question.” The title of his lecture was “Write From Wrong: [...]
Signed, sealed, delivered I’m yours
My husband came back from an afternoon forage through a second hand book store and announced that he’d come across a book he’d donated to a local charity after a recent purge. The book was now listed as a UK first edition for twenty dollars. The book, by Henry Miller, was purchased in Guildford, England [...]
East and West: A Conversation with Sara Heinonen
Sara Heinonen’s wonderfully evocative story, ‘The Blue Dress’ (TNQ 120) is the tale of an expat couple in Hong Kong, he a successful businessman embracing the rapidly expanding money culture, she a teacher of English, who accompanies him. The story was inspired by a period when Sara herself lived in Hong Kong, and there were [...]
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