Check out my review of Fancy Gap by Zak Jones on The New Quarterly’s website: tnq.ca/whats-brandon-nadeau-reading/ Follow: @thenewquarterly.bsky.social #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #LitMag #Canadian #Novel
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Literary magazine that has been publishing Canadian Writers & Writing for over 40 years. Proud presenter of the Wild Writers Literary Festival!
Brandon Nadeau tells TNQ about reading Zak Jones' debut Fancy Gap, an Appalachian biblical saga 📚: tnq.ca/whats-brando... #TheNewQuarterly #CanadianWriters #WhosReadingWhat #LiteraryMagazine #CanLit @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social
📣 The New Quarterly is thrilled to announce the results of the 2026 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest! 🏆 The winner of our contest is Maria Giesbrecht for her poem “Sestina for Escape.” 1/5
ISSUE 179: GROUP THINK is now live.‼️ In our summer issue, we don a toad costume, spy on the neighbours, curate the local little library, and have a strange reaction to our meds. Grab your copy today: tnq.ca/product/issu... #newreleases #litmags #amreading
Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature
This essay is a double-winner thanks to @thenewquarterly.bsky.social and @canadamediaawards.bsky.social. Thank you for honouring an essay about domestic violence--how mundane and complicated it is and the hard, strange questions it engenders
Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Personal Journalism / @thenewquarterly.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/PCuPn #NMA26 #CanadianLiterature
We have reached our cap for regular fiction and poetry submissions in less than a week. Interested writers can submit their work at our next reading period in February. ‼️📚 #writingsubmissions #submissions #writersofbluesky
Attention writers! 🚨 Our regular poetry and fiction submission portals have now officially been unlocked. 🔓 Link to submit below! 🔗 tnq.ca/submit/ #writersofbluesky #canlit #nonfiction #litmagsubmissions
Happy almost Canada Day, TNQ readers!!!🍁 Learn about Kat Cameron's writing space back home in Edmonton 📚: tnq.ca/kat-camerons... #TheNewQuarterly #CanadianWriters #CanadaDayReads #WritingSpace #CanLit
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is John Morris' poem "Labour of Love" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/labour... #readersofbluesky #poetry #amreading #labouroflove
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Tiffany Morris' "Where They End" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/where-... #readersofbluesky #poetry #amreading #wheretheyend
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Sierra Jain-Lalande's essay "Mary Jain's Last Dawn" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/mary-j... #readersofbluesky #essay #amreading #diasporareadings
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Deborah Ostrovsky's essay "Known As" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/known-... #readersofbluesky #essay #amreading #knownas
Learn about Ziyad Saadi's experience re-reading Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail" as a diaspora Palestinian 📚: tnq.ca/whats-ziyad-... #TheNewQuarterly #CanadianWriters #FreePalestine #PalestinianStories #PalestinianAuthors
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal's poem "Haptic Mirror" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/haptic... #readersofbluesky #poetry #amreading #hapticmirror
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Veronika Gorlova's poem "impossible demands" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/imposs... #readersofbluesky #poetry #amreading #impossibledemands
Learn about Patrick Cunningham's "tortured and indelibly human" favourite reads lately 📚: tnq.ca/what-patrick... #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit #CanadianWriters #BritishLiterature
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Patrick Cunningham's short story "Domestic Pigs" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/domest... #readersofbluesky #shortstory #amreading #domesticpigs
TNQ would like to extend our sincere congratulations to the amazing @kellypedro.bsky.social who has won the 33rd Annual Short Prose Competition, awarded by the Writers' Union of Canada. 📝 Congrats again, Kelly! 🥰 #CanadianWriters #LitMagLife #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit
Learn about Leona Theis' hermit-crab essay, as well as her writing process, below 🦀: tnq.ca/finding-the-... Author: @leonajoan.bsky.social #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit #CanadianWriters #HermitCrabs
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Sandra Campbell's short story "Alice's Yearning" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full story: Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/alices... #readersofbluesky #shortstory #amreading #alicesyearning
We are delighted to announce that Jarin Pantana has joined the TNQ team as our new Managing Editor! 🎉 We can’t wait to see what Jarin accomplishes at TNQ!! 😊 #TheNewQuarterly #LitMagLife #LiteraryMagazine #CanLit #LitMags
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is John Morris' poem "The Embrace" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/two-po... #readersofbluesky #poetry #amreading #theembrace
TNQ would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the incredible Maria Reva who has won the $60K Amazon First Novel Award for Endling!!! Fun fact: Maria’s first publication was right here with The New Quarterly! 1/3 #CanadianWriters #LitMagLife #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit #Endling
Learn why Scott Randall has been trekking through the Best American Short Story (BASS) anthologies for decades 🕰️📚: tnq.ca/what-is-scot...
We have reached our cap for regular non-fiction submissions! Interested writers can submit their work at our next reading period in January. #writingsubmissions #submissions #writersofbluesky
Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Angela Waldie's poem "A Drop of Water" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full essay: tnq.ca/story/a-drop... #readersofbluesky #naturepoem #amreading #adropofwater
THIS IS YOUR LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!! 🖊️📜 Don't miss out on the chance to win our $1,000 grand prize and publication in The New Quarterly. 🏆 Link to submit below! 🔗 tnq.ca/contests/