In our latest Launched Series entry, TNQ alum Lisa Alward spoke with Laura Rock Gaughan about her fiction debut “Cocktail”. Learn how Lisa processed the good news that came with her debut, how she enters a story through an image, and what she’s working on next:rb.gy/fnqtul

“We must feel free...to critique the world of injustice and inhumanity that we despise, and envision in its place the world we want. If we can’t be free in our own imaginations, where can we be free?”

Click ↓ to read Saeed Teebi's essay: rb.gy/hudhqp

Read about how this Trixie Belden Mystery has helped Pugsley recover, regroup, and prepare for his next adventure.

Learn more about his thoughts on the Trixie Belden series: tnq.ca/whats-alex-pug…

THE EDUCATION OF AUBREY MCKEE comes out this Tuesday!

A round of applause for the nominees of the #NMA23 Essays category! Geist Hakai Magazine Hazlitt Nouveau Projet Room Magazine The New Quarterly

How exciting to learn that my essay 'Soft Pink' has been nominated for a National Magazine Award this morning. I'm all weepy!! So many thanks to The New Quarterly and Pamela Mulloy for believing in it!

Congratulations, Dr. Sandy Pool! 🥳

Congratulations, Monica Kidd! 🥳

Congratulations, Alex Kitt! 'Bruise and Shine,' published in The New Quarterly, is nominated for Fiction. #NMA24 buff.ly/44nsgm4

The Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award is back! Designed to highlight emerging writers, entries are only accepted from writers who have yet to publish a novel or collection of short stories. Submit by May 28th: tnq.ca/peter-hinchcli…

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“This feeling – because it was just a feeling, not a fact, and is shared by many new moms – so shamed me that I never told anyone.”

Click ↓ to continue reading Finding the Form with Emma Williamson:
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“Sometimes you think you may have imagined the escape. All those early days of motherhood are blurred into a nothingness that still scares you, even now, months later.”

Click ↓ to continue reading Emma Williamson's featured story:
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“A book like this constructs its own universe with its own rules and laws and intents and purposes that all follow from the presumptions and prejudices of the society from which it is itself created.”

Click ↓ to continue reading Alex Pugsley's blog:
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“Up to this point, Emma has had an aura of indiffer- ence—as if involvement with anyone requires energy she’s too bored to muster—but I sense from her now a sparkle of quizzicality.'

Click ↓ to continue reading Alex Pugsley's featured read:
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“No longer a lost babe, I have learned these woods and the years that grow around us.”

Click ↓ to continue reading Susan J. Atkinson's featured poems in issue 169 of The New Quarterly:
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We are excited to announce that our spring issue is now live on our website and available for purchase! Dive into our latest poems, short fiction, and essays that explore the art of resilience.

Click ↓ to see the full issue:
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“It is said that gunpowder was accidentally invented by someone looking for the elixir of life, but who found the opposite.'

Click ↓ to continue reading Shane Rhodes' featured poem:
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Congratulations to Vincent Anioke, Vivian Li, 🇦🇫 Mina Sharif, and Traci Skuce for being longlisted for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize!

“I am afraid of a world where I may cease to be which is why I imagine a green hill, a storm of pigeons passing overhead, myself a witness to a heavenly host.”

Click ↓ to continue reading Chris Bank's featured essay:
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'I was deep in the weeds of research and editing when I began writing “Margaret” as a palate cleanse from rations, resistance and roll calls in concentration camps.'

Click ↓ to continue reading Finding the Form with Lena Scholman:
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Attention all writers! Today is the last day left to submit to our Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest! Submit your essays by 11:59pm EST for a chance to win a $1000 grand prize!

Apply here: tnq.ca/edna-staebler-…