Back Issues
No. 112: Travellers in a Strange Land
We await the revolution with Patricia Robertson, avoid projectile party vomit with Mark Anthony Jarman, plunder the past with Carrie Snyder, explore imagery with Shoshanna Wingate, visit the museum at the end of the world with John Metcalf, and scan the heavens with Erling Friis-Baastad. Plus fiction by Mark Rogers, and poetry by M. Travis Lane, Patrick M. Pilarski, Susan Stenson, and Tom Wayman.
No. 111 I Think I Should Go Home
Inside this issue: We play 'what if' with Amy Jones; Nigel Beale examines criticism's darker side; Adrian Michael Kelly talks literary evangelism; Shannon Reynolds meditates on the death of Derek Weiler; Trevor Cole describes his first magazine love; fiction by Alison Pick, Lyse Champagne, Shaena Lambert, Ryan Turner, Ken Duffin, and Timothy Marsh; poetry by Michael Pacey, Jeff Latosik, William Knight, Laurelyn Whitt, Marsha Barber, Rolli, and Robyn Jeffrey.
Inside this issue: Elizabeth Hay remembers love and loss in the stifling heat of a Brooklyn summer; Grace Johnstone revisits the death of Reena Virk with Soraya Peerbaye, Joan MacLeod, and Heather Spears; Patricia Young talks to Barb Carter about sex, love, and messing around with words; Alisa Smith takes her feminist crusade Outside; Rebecca Rosenblum writes to the zombie Sassy, Emily Urquhart dreams of being mistakenly incarcerated; Kay Weber sits still and pays attention with Jim Nason; fiction by Richard Cumyn, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, and Carolyn Black; poetry by Patricia Young, Jim Nason, Maureen Hynes, Laisha Rosnau, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Asher Ghaffar, Ian Burgham, and Changming Yuan.
No. 109 For Some Unknown Reason and Anyhow (SOLD OUT)
The way our Winter issue came together is still a bit of a mystery to our editors. In this issue, "for some unknown reason and anyhow", Anne Fleming defends the (long) short story and contributes two wonderful examples of her own, Dave Margoshes walks the tightrope between memoir and fiction in three new short stories, poet Robyn Sarah pauses for breath, Mark Callanan worries about Mr. Weatherbee, and Billeh Nickerson enriches our Word Power. Elsewhere in this diverse issue, new short fiction from Jean Van Loon, Laura Boudreau, and Ben Hart, and poetry by Angela Long, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Glen Downie, and Jason Guriel.
We're calling our Fall issue "Assorted Pedestrians" after a winning line from Cathy Stonehouse's story "Beryl Takes a Knife." It is, as the name implies, a mixed bag, but the best kind thereof--a pillowcase heavy with Hallowe'en loot, a family, a favourite shoe store. A few of our editors' predilections thus revealed, on to the delights in this edition of TNQ: the return of two of our occasional features (Falling in Love with Poetry and Word & Image) as well as the launch of a new one, Magazine as Muse. This issue is also home to a wide range of poetry and fiction, capped by Terry Griggs's "Joie de Viv". Finally, rounding out this rich issue is a pair of essays on the role of research and serendipity, of repression and sensation, in fuelling our impulse to tell stories and determining the kind of stories we tell.
No. 107 The Salon des Refuses (SOLD OUT)
Our Salon des Refuses took flight early in 2008 when I received e-mail from Dan Wells, publisher of Biblioasis Press and its associated magazine Canadian Notes & Queries. Had I seen The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, the recent anthology edited by writer Jane Urquhart? He felt it was an important anthology, one which would determine which story writers are read in the coming years, and yet it had omitted many of the writers we both admire--accomplished, influential, innovative writers and, not coincidentally, ones we have published and promoted. Might we get up some sort of competing collection, a bit of advocacy on behalf of these writers?
No. 106 The Montreal Issue
In this special issue of TNQ, guest editor Katia Grubisic takes us on a whirlwind tour of the fascinating city in which she lives through literary and multidisplinary works in just two of the many languages spoken in her neighborhood, French and English. How does here, pace Frye, define us? she asks, and answers: "...this is a town where you hop in and the taxi driver asks ¿donde?, where the Mile End hums Greekly with hours of important soccer commentary, where I have had a conversation about rainbows with my octagenarian Italian neighbour. We don't speak the same languages, ma guardi, quanti colori! ... Are any of us from here? "
No. 105 Adventures in Verse
This issue tips the scale towards poetry with a return of our series on the seductions of verse, new poems by TNQ National Magazine Gold Medalists Steven Heighton and Alison Pick, a panel of poet critics discussing the role of the critic and the ways in which criticism and poetry inform one another, and an introduction to the work of two feisty young poets, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Madhur Anand. The issue also includes a brace of new fiction loosely around the theme of accidents and close calls and another of essays on writing by Douglas Glover, Patricia Robertson, Mike Barnes, and Tanis MacDonald.
No. 104 Real Estate Issue
In an earlier issue of TNQ, Canadian poet Robyn Sarah wrote about poets’ propensity for seeing, and hearing, double. They see instructions on the side of a matchbook—“Strike anywhere.”—and take it for an artist’s manifesto. They hear the phrase “the cost of living” and think, yes, living exacts a huge cost. They pick up a roll of masking tape and begin brooding on guilty secrets. The phrase “real estate” has always set up just such a resonance in me. What is it about a place of habitation that makes us real? that defines or confines us? that reveals our true selves or projects the selves we want to be? that makes us more or less than what we imagine?
No. 102: The Long and the Short of It
No. 101: The Artist as Activist (Sold Out)
No.100: An Occasion for Celebration
No. 96: Border Crossings and New Arrivals
No. 95: Painting, Plays, and Poetry
No. 94: Hockey Write in Canada
No. 93: The Writer Abroad
No. 92: Weddings & Other Disasters
No. 91: Writers of the Burning Rock - Sold Out!
No. 90: The Urban World of Russell Smith
No. 89: Uncommon Ground
No. 88: The Understander
No. 87: And Let the River Answer - Sold Out!
No. 86: Bad Men Who Love Jesus
No. 85: The Collector's Real
No. 84: Sweat & Serendipity - Sold Out!
