Featured this week in The New Quarterly is John Bemrose's short story "Our Very Petite Mort" from Issue 179!
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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:
2026 Giller Prize Finalist Tara Gereaux will be chatting with us on October 29th all about her book WILD PEOPLE QUIET.
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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:
Thanks to Selena and @thenewquarterly.bsky.social for the conversation!
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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.
@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....