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In Conversation With Russell Smith
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 05/18/2013
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TNQ Talks To..., Russell Smith, Wild Writers
Russell Smith has been quite a regular at TNQ recently. He sat on our "How to Write Great Sex Scenes" panel at last year's Wild Writers Festival, then published short stories in issue 125, and our current issue, 126: All At Sea. Fiction Editor Bruce Johnstone sat down with Russel to delve a little deeper into all three.
TNQ at the National Magazine Awards: We're kind of a big deal.
By Melissa Krone
Posted: 05/02/2013
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TNQ Writers in the News, Awards
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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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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True Confessions, TNQ Out and About
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..., Zoey Leigh Peterson
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...