Coming soon: NQ Fall 2025

August 2025

Here’s a brief selection::

“My neighbour had had surgery for cancer just a few months before. She understood the gut-wrenching terror of the diagnosis and offered to drive me to my medical appointments in Gander. After mychemo, she went with me to buy satin pillowcases, which were supposed to be easier on shedding scalps.

That night as I slipped them on the pillows, I looked out over the islands in the bay. The angle was slightly different from that of my bedroom window next door, and the view had slightly shifted. That wasn’t the only view that had changed. Bare patches of scalp faced me in the mirror across the room.And uncertainty had crept into my vision of the future.”

  • from The Red Beret, by Gail Alice Collins. Featured in NQ Fall 2025, on the stands August 29th
Books

Q&A WITH WRITER SUSAN CHALKER BROWNE

BY NQ

Could you tell us a little about yourself? I began writing children’s books when my own children were small and have since branched out into books for adults. Mother of…

Q & A

Q & A with Poet Lindsay Bird

BY NQ

What inspires your poetry? Maybe it’s a bit of a boring answer, but I definitely draw from the everyday when I write. Poetry, for me, is often a way to…

Non-FictionCanada 150

RESURRECTING THE GREAT AUK

BY Drew Brown

The Great Auk got a raw deal. Setting its cloned Razorbill-hybrid progeny down on Funk Island as an act of atonement is a tempting proposition. Easing our collective guilt aside, a resurrected Auk could be an economic boon. Every cove and tickle would put in an ACOA grant to host a penguin hatchery.