Write, Publish, and Shine

The New Quarterly—TNQ, for short—is a Canadian literary journal known for wit, warmth, and literary innovation. Our style is celebratory, and we’re well known for finding, as well as nurturing, distinctive voices, and for continuing to support writers throughout their career. We publish short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction that explores both the craft and the writing life. Watch for TNQ writers among those cited for National Magazine Awards, the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Journey Prize, and the Writers Trust Fiction Prize.Each issue brings our readers work by both emerging and established writers, and, while TNQ has always been an inclusive publication, we have renewed our commitment to encouraging writers who may be experiencing barriers regarding race, gender, ability, sexual orientation, or age to consider TNQ when they’re ready to submit their finest work.Pamela Mulloy has edited TNQ since 2011. She has a master of arts in studies in fiction from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; has had short fiction published in the United Kingdom and Canada; and has been awarded the Waterloo Regional Arts Council award for fiction. Her novel, The Deserters, is due out in Spring of 2018 with Véhicule Press. She currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband and daughterQuotes from the Episode“I confess to being a slow thinker, a ruminator. I’m the one who thinks about it and has the idea after everybody has left the table. Social media is a challenge.”“I think that I understand that writing is a process and it sometimes requires a great deal of patience, and revisiting, and rethinking, things we’re not used to doing to be productive.““One of the things that we consider with the writers is that it’s a relationship with the writers. We’re actually investing in a writer when we choose to publish them. We hope that they will continue to submit to us and it becomes an ongoing relationship. That human element of the publishing process is really important. I’m always curious what the writer is doing in their wider writing life.““Quiet stories are the ones I’m often drawn to.”“In order to become a successful writer, you have to submit your work. It kinda raises the bar for your writing. It pushes you to get the best you can get.“Episode CreditsHost: Rachel ThompsonAudio Editor: Meghan BellMusic: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz SaiyedProduced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

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Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.Room believes in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors, and because of this, approximately 90% of the work the magazine publishes comes from unsolicited submissions or contest entries. Work that originally appeared in Room has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, and Best Canadian Essays, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award.

About Chelene Knight

Chelene Knight lives in Vancouver, BC and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio in multiple genres. Chelene is a Library Assistant at the Vancouver Public Library, and Managing Editor at Room. Chelene has worked as a Manuscript Consultant through SFU and has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. Her second book, Dear Current Occupant, a memoir, is forthcoming with BookThug in 2018. Chelene is now working on a novel set in the 1940's in Vancouver's Hogan's Alley. Her first book, Braided Skin, was published by Mother Tongue Publishing in Spring 2015. Find out more about Chelene at cheleneknight.com and @poetchelene.

Quotes from the Episode

“I don't have a favourite genre. I have a favourite mindset: I have the power to change the world however I see fit.”

“Listen to the writing and follow it.”

“[At Room we are] #transparency. I don’t see many other magazines doing that right now.”

“You have a small window to do something amazing. You gotta drive it home really quick.”

Episode Credits

Host: Rachel Thompson

Audio Editor: Meghan Bell

Music: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/

Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz Saiyed

Produced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.Room believes in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors, and because of this, approximately 90% of the work the magazine publishes comes from unsolicited submissions or contest entries. Work that originally appeared in Room has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, and Best Canadian Essays, and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award.About Chelene KnightChelene Knight lives in Vancouver, BC and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio in multiple genres. Chelene is a Library Assistant at the Vancouver Public Library, and Managing Editor at Room. Chelene has worked as a Manuscript Consultant through SFU and has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. Her second book, Dear Current Occupant, a memoir, is forthcoming with BookThug in 2018. Chelene is now working on a novel set in the 1940's in Vancouver's Hogan's Alley. Her first book, Braided Skin, was published by Mother Tongue Publishing in Spring 2015. Find out more about Chelene at cheleneknight.com and @poetchelene.Quotes from the Episode“I don't have a favourite genre. I have a favourite mindset: I have the power to change the world however I see fit.”“Listen to the writing and follow it.”“[At Room we are] #transparency. I don’t see many other magazines doing that right now.”“You have a small window to do something amazing. You gotta drive it home really quick.”Episode CreditsHost: Rachel ThompsonAudio Editor: Meghan BellMusic: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz SaiyedProduced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

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About MaisonneuveMaisonneuve literally means "new house" and suggests the spirit of collective enterprise the magazine gathers under one roof. The magazine takes its name from Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the man who founded Montreal in 1642. A teenage soldier who experienced something of a religious conversion in his twenties, de Maisonneuve came from Champagne, where his last remains can be found today.About Andrea Bennettandrea bennett's writing has been published by the Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Geist, Reader's Digest and others. Her essay, "Water Upon the Earth," received gold in the essays category at the 2015 National Magazine Awards; in 2013, her piece "Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle" received an NMA honourable mention in the politics and public interest category. andrea's first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014. She is currently working on travel guides to Montreal and Quebec City for Moon Travel.andrea is the Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve, a researcher for Reader's Digest, a columnist at This magazine and the designer for PRISM. Originally from Hamilton, she currently lives in Montreal. She holds a BA in English and French from the University of Guelph, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is represented by Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic.Quotes from the Episode“As an editor, it’s really important to cultivate a couple of things. One is an awareness of what’s been published elsewhere.”“So poetry and prose are a little bit like running and cycling, in that there are some things that cross over and other things that don’t.”“General interest magazines are looking for scenes, like action unfolding in time as opposed to anything too-too exposition heavy.”Story DiscussedAndrea discussed Adam Elliott Segal's "Black Market Babies," non-fiction (longform magazine journalism).Read it here: https://maisonneuve.org/article/2017/07/18/black-market-babies.Episode CreditsHost: Rachel ThompsonAudio Editor: Meghan BellMusic: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz SaiyedProduced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

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About Maisonneuve

Maisonneuve literally means "new house" and suggests the spirit of collective enterprise the magazine gathers under one roof. The magazine takes its name from Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the man who founded Montreal in 1642. A teenage soldier who experienced something of a religious conversion in his twenties, de Maisonneuve came from Champagne, where his last remains can be found today.

About Andrea Bennett

andrea bennett's writing has been published by the Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Geist, Reader's Digest and others. Her essay, "Water Upon the Earth," received gold in the essays category at the 2015 National Magazine Awards; in 2013, her piece "Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle" received an NMA honourable mention in the politics and public interest category. andrea's first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014. She is currently working on travel guides to Montreal and Quebec City for Moon Travel.

andrea is the Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve, a researcher for Reader's Digest, a columnist at This magazine and the designer for PRISM. Originally from Hamilton, she currently lives in Montreal. She holds a BA in English and French from the University of Guelph, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is represented by Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic.

Quotes from the Episode

“As an editor, it’s really important to cultivate a couple of things. One is an awareness of what’s been published elsewhere.”

“So poetry and prose are a little bit like running and cycling, in that there are some things that cross over and other things that don’t.”

“General interest magazines are looking for scenes, like action unfolding in time as opposed to anything too-too exposition heavy.”

Story Discussed

Andrea discussed Adam Elliott Segal's "Black Market Babies," non-fiction (longform magazine journalism).

Read it here: https://maisonneuve.org/article/2017/07/18/black-market-babies.

Episode Credits

Host: Rachel Thompson

Audio Editor: Meghan Bell

Music: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/

Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz Saiyed

Produced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

An online independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of new and innovative writing, The Gravity of theThing has been named one of thirty best online magazines in 2016 (Bookfox) and one of fifteen best literary journals of 2015 (Authors Publish Magazine). We publish work that is aware of its literary form, writing that defamiliarizes in craft or content for an enhanced rendering of reality.Since 2006, Thea Prieto has edited for Counterpoint Press, the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Portland Review, and The Chiron Journal: Anthology of Interdisciplinary Media. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University, including the courses Creative Writing Through Guided Meditation and Introduction to Horror Fiction.Quotes from the Episode“The song functions as a prompt, and then I kind of leave it behind as the story starts to realize itself.”“I definitely… was interested in defamiliarizing not just characterization, but also the way readers engage with writing in general.”“Just because a piece is published doesn’t mean it becomes stationary or stagnant.”“It could be overwhelming sometimes how many ways a story can be correct and different at the same time.”“It’s really revealing what the form, how that constraint of just six words… how it sometimes forces writers into a similar spot.”“I would encourage writers to think about the ways that their story is constructed and how that might complement or clash with or in any way enlighten the contents of their piece.”Episode CreditsHost: Rachel ThompsonAudio Editor: Meghan BellMusic: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz SaiyedProduced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

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The Forge Literary Magazine was founded by volunteers from the Fiction Forge, an international online writers’ forum, which counts amongst its members and alumni winners of numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. Former members’ novels have been published by Bloomsbury, Chatto & Windus, Sceptre, Headline and Little, Brown. The Forge staff share editorial duties equally and pay their contributors. Their taste is wide-ranging and eclectic. The Forge Literary Magazine is a project of Forge Literary Press, a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California.

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For 45 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. They are one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines.

An online independent literary magazine dedicated to the publication of new and innovative writing, The Gravity of theThing has been named one of thirty best online magazines in 2016 (Bookfox) and one of fifteen best literary journals of 2015 (Authors Publish Magazine). We publish work that is aware of its literary form, writing that defamiliarizes in craft or content for an enhanced rendering of reality.

Since 2006, Thea Prieto has edited for Counterpoint Press, the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Portland Review, and The Chiron Journal: Anthology of Interdisciplinary Media. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University, including the courses Creative Writing Through Guided Meditation and Introduction to Horror Fiction.

Quotes from the Episode

“The song functions as a prompt, and then I kind of leave it behind as the story starts to realize itself.”

“I definitely… was interested in defamiliarizing not just characterization, but also the way readers engage with writing in general.”

“Just because a piece is published doesn’t mean it becomes stationary or stagnant.”

“It could be overwhelming sometimes how many ways a story can be correct and different at the same time.”

“It’s really revealing what the form, how that constraint of just six words… how it sometimes forces writers into a similar spot.”

“I would encourage writers to think about the ways that their story is constructed and how that might complement or clash with or in any way enlighten the contents of their piece.”

Episode Credits

Host: Rachel Thompson

Audio Editor: Meghan Bell

Music: https://musicformakers.com/songs/the-return/

Production & Research Assistant: Gulnaz Saiyed

Produced by Room magazine and Rachel Thompson

Shashi Bhat received an MFA in Fiction from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA in English from Cornell University. Her novel, The Family Took Shape, was released from Cormorant Books in 2013, and was one of three books shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain, Journey Prize Stories 24, PRISM international, EVENT, The New Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review and other journals. She was a finalist for the 2010 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. She teaches creative writing at Douglas College and is the Editor of EVENT magazine.