Category Archives: TNQ Insider’s Guide
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 [...]
You could win $1000! Yes, you! And you! AND you!
It’s TNQ Contest Time! And this year there are three writing contests, and three first places prizes of $1000 to be won! Time for Contest Catherine (that’s me!) to process the entries and keep deep, dark secrets from the judges (such as the entrants names…)! Time to answer all of your questions about the contest! Time [...]
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Submission Guidelines Updated!
Humour me, please, by imagining yourself in the following scenario. It’s Tuesday morning, 9am, and you’ve got two hours of time to donate to The New Quarterly’s ever-growing pile of submissions. You sit down, ready to input data as quickly, and accurately, as you can to get through the 50 envelopes mailed from across Canada, [...]
Fiction Editor Amanda tells all…
Before heading out on maternity leave, Rosalynn asked some of the newer recruits to TNQ’s editorial team if they’d be willing to answer the following questions on The Literary Type—to tell her, in effect, what sort of literary type they are. Today we hear from Amanda Watkins, one of our fiction editors and part of [...]
Write your personal essay already!
Catherine has informed me that we’ve been receiving personal essays at a rate of about 1 every 5 minutes all day. (She’s just let me know that “Contest Catherine is losing her mind”—yes, she’s begun referring to herself in the 3rd person—as we’ve received 7 entries in the last 10 minutes.) I suppose it shouldn’t [...]
Panel discussion: Love of the Word—and More!
Want to get to know TNQ a little better? How about an inside look at the operation of a literary magazine? Our fearless Editor, Kim Jernigan, will be moderating a panel discussion as part of UWaterloo’s Knowledge Integration Speaker Series this Friday, January 28, 2:30-4pm in room 2002 of the EV2 building at the University [...]
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