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TNQ at the National Magazine Awards: We're kind of a big deal.
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 05/02/2013
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Our newest volunteer recruit, Andy, was busy logging paypal transactions when Pamela suddenly started shouting. I had just returned with the mail, having spent the morning offline as I finished calculating a deposit. At first, neither one of us had any idea what the waving arms were about. "EIGHT! EIGHT!" she shouted. Eight National Magazine Awards nominations!
Both Comfort and Millstone: A Conversation with Philip Huynh
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 04/10/2013
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TNQ Talks To..., Philip Huynh, Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award
The top two stories in our inaugural (2012) Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Contest were both by West Coasters, like Peter himself. Novelist Claire Tacon talks with our runner up, Philip Huynh, about his story “Gulliver’s Wife,” a love triangle of sorts, in which language and love, past and present, learning and doing, the strange and the familiar jostle for place, and a hair cut may once...
Breakthrough on Retreat
By Susan Scott
Posted: 04/09/2013
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Trial & Error: A Conversation with Zoey Leigh Peterson
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 04/04/2013
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Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, TNQ Talks To...
There may have been a lot of trial, but there’s not much error in “Sleep World,” winner of the inaugural Peter Hinchcliffe Award for a story by a writer in the early stages. In fact, our judges’ said of it, “‘Sleep World’ is not the kind of story you expect to find in a competition for beginning writers. It’s the kind of story you expect to find in a collection of stories by a very fine...
Pushing Boundaries: In Conversation with Erika Thorkelson
By Susan Scott
Posted: 03/21/2013
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Personal Essay, TNQ Talks To..., Edna Staebler Personal Contest
" To me, the personal essay is the pinnacle of the genre. It requires a writer to not only to have an experience but to understand it, to make connections that elucidate the human experience." Erica Thorkelson, runner up in the 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, sits down with Nonfiction Editor Susan Scott.
Four New Quarterly poets in Best Canadian Poetry 2012
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 03/06/2013
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This year’s Best Canadian Poetry in English is out, with a feisty introduction by guest editor Carmine Starnino about what he calls Canadian poetry’s new “steampunk” aesthetic, poems that are playful hybrids governed by “a set of rules that are self-devised, unique, complex and subject to instant change,” also (and for that reason) difficult to evaluate. Starnino claims not to be sold,...
The Wrong Way: A Conversation with Sierra Skye Gemma
By Susan Scott
Posted: 02/25/2013
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TNQ Talks To..., Sierra Skye Gemma, Edna Staebler Personal Contest
Sierra Skye Gemma won our 2012 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest for “The Wrong Way,” a trenchant critique of conventional grief theory using powerful family stories that enlighten and unnerve. This is Susan Scott's conversation with the author and her writing experience.
Frail Bark Boat: A Conversation with Mary-Lynn Murphy
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 02/06/2013
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Mary-Lynn Murphy was one of the winners of TNQ’s 2012 Occasional Verse Contest for “Breathless,” a spare but touching poem about the death of her father. Through her interview with the author, Kim Jernigan gains insight into the artistic development and origins of the poem.
Storms, Forms, and Light Verse: A Conversation with Susan Olding
By Kim Jernigan
Posted: 01/28/2013
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Susan Olding’s poem “Lemoine Point” was one of four to end up in the winners’ circle in our Occasional Verse Contest. One of our judges, speaking for the group, said of this rollicking pantoum about the approach and aftermath of a summer storm: “I did not get far into my first reading of ‘Lemoine Point’ before I was overcome with the intense feeling that this poem had to be read out...
Rarities: An Interview with Jason Guriel
By Tristanne Connolly
Posted: 01/23/2013
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When Tristanne Connolly was treated to a sneak peek at poems from Jason Guriel’s upcoming collection, they seemed to come from a familiar world—where seemingly youthful pastimes hold a potential seriousness, maybe even a transcendent significance, but without becoming (God forbid!) poser-pretentious. If you want to see what Tristanne is talking about, you can look forward to Guriel’s...
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