Featured this week in The New Quarterly is John Bemrose's short story "Our Very Petite Mort" from Issue 179! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/our-ve... #readersofbluesky #shortstory #amreading #lamort

2026 Giller Prize Finalist Tara Gereaux will be chatting with us on October 29th all about her book WILD PEOPLE QUIET. Don't miss out!!! Get your FREE ticket now: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tnq-and-sp...

We recently lost the great Canadian writer K.D. Miller, who has passed away at the age of 75. Our Poetry Editor, John Vardon, wrote a lovely tribute for her that we welcome you to read on our website: tnq.ca/k-d-miller-t...

Thanks to Selena and @thenewquarterly.bsky.social for the conversation! tnq.ca/what-the-occ...

What the Occasional Poem Can Be: A Conversation with Sina Queyras - The New Quarterly Digital Edition

Each year, The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest celebrates poems shaped by moments of public and private significance. In On Occasion: Poems for the People, poet and editor Sina Queyras gathers work that marks grief, celebration, encounter, memory, and community. In this conversation, Queyras reflects on editing the anthology, the social life of […]

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Fall brings festivals, and I’m glad to be going to three, plus a reading in St. Catharines. To be in conversation with writers and readers is the joy and the grist and the balm. Hope to see you. @pennockty.bsky.social @ariel-gordon.bsky.social @phylumpr3ss.bsky.social @thenewquarterly.bsky.social

The crazy kids from “All We Have” partied their way onto the interweb!! So honoured to have this story from Confluence—the new novel by Alex Turner and me—in this amazing Canadian literary journal, @thenewquarterly.bsky.social. tnq.ca/story/all-we...

@thenewquarterly.bsky.social is a wonderful literary journal that originates in my hometown of Waterloo. That makes this special to me. 'Summer is Better' and 'A Short History of Creatures Who Said No' are on the longlist for the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award: tnq.ca/the-2026-pet....

The 2026 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award Longlist - The New Quarterly Digital Edition

The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2026 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. “Ocean of Emptiness” by Karen Armstrong “Vanishing Point” by Peter Ball “At the Waist” by Morgan Beck “Lorraine’s Secret” by Joey Bongiorno “A Bend in the Road” by Martin Borden “Thaw” by Paige Churchill “The Yellow Kitchen” by […]

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Paul McKeague tells TNQ about the "design error" that created a surprisingly wonderful writing space 📚: tnq.ca/paul-mckeagu... #TheNewQuarterly #CanadianWriters #WhosReadingWhat #LiteraryMagazine #CanLit

John Morris tells TNQ about reading interconnected works that span poetry, film, and criticism 📚: tnq.ca/whats-john-m... #TheNewQuarterly #CanadianWriters #WhosReadingWhat #LiteraryMagazine #CanLit

📣 The New Quarterly is thrilled to announce the results of the 2026 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest! 🏆 The winner of our contest is Dami Adebajo for the essay “God Made Butterflies.” 1/5

Got my copies of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Issue 179! That one of my dream journals included “All We Have,” a story from the novel by Alex Turner and me, makes the honour even sweeter! TNQ 179: tnq.ca/issues/issue... Pre-order Confluence @arsenalpulp.bsky.social: arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Conf...

Hurray! Just received the new issue of @thenewquarterly.bsky.social, which includes my swimming essay, “Individual Medley,” alongside work by pals and so many writers I admire. What an incredible lineup of contributors! Excited to dive in this weekend, preferably by a lake.

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

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

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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