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Our Fall Issue is Now On Stands!
BY NQ
Fall is here and so is a new print issue of Newfoundland Quarterly. The first thing you’ll notice is the beautiful painting on the cover. It’s a Jean Claude Roy…
Call for Submissions: Writing and Visual Art
BY NQ
We are looking for work related to our Spring issue theme, “arrival”, and also on general topics related to NL life, culture, and arts.
Our Winter Issue has Arrived!
BY NQ
It’s getting colder out there, but luckily the Winter issue of NQ is now on-stands, ready to warm you up with a mug of hot cocoa.
NORTHERN DETACHMENT
BY Clancy Margaret
The wind was still, but the cold was biting all the same. Stepping outside made her sinuses burn and her eyes water. She brushed the snow off the seat of her snowmobile—a mid-nineties Ski-Doo, always giving her trouble. She surveyed the town as she waited for the engine to warm up. It’s squat vinyl sided homes glowed amidst the dim winter daytime. Snowmobile tracks crisscrossed on the road but not a person was in sight. She checked her handheld GPS. The coordinates lined up with somewhere northwest, about a forty-five minute ride under the blanket of dark. There were no stars today. It was always cloudy.
To St John’s, With Love: An Interview with Leon Chung on His Upcoming Graphic Novel
BY Elizabeth Whitten
Evidence of Leon Chung’s passion for art, especially animation, is present throughout his home. Art books, graphic novels, and DVDs are stacked neatly in shelves, along with figurines. The space…
Making Album Rock
BY Matthew Hollett
You can find such surprising and funny things while digging through archives. The Pilote de Terre-Neuve, published in 1869, is full of dollhouse-like illustrations of Newfoundland’s coastline, complete with tiny ships and houses. I also came across a sea captain’s letter to his daughter, in which he describes “seven little gulls recently hatched” that he is attempting to raise.
Paying Ode to Funambulists
BY Prajwala Dixit
“Do you remember everything I’ve told you?” I ask my fiancé for the millionth time. We are in the lobby of a Quality Inn near Pearson International. Four floors up, my parents await to meet their daughter and future son-in-law. This is the first time my Indian and Canadian realms will come face to face.