Holiday lights & rush
BY NQ
December 2019
A lovely & safe Season to all, and we’ll see you back on nqonline in January 2020.
Letter to Joey Smallwood
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
Dear Joey: I’m still here and mixed
Mi’kmaq after all these years
You’re long dead, yet
Confederation couldn’t stop
Newfoundland’s ongoing
colonial violence.
You continued so unapologetically,
telling Ottawa there are no red Indians–
“I have a vivid memory, from when I was five years old, of sitting on a rock out in the tundra and feeling at peace.”
BY John Graham
“I have a vivid memory, from when I was five years old, of sitting on a rock out in the tundra and feeling at peace. I’ve always felt a strong connection to the Land and that in some way the Land is who I am.”
NL Q and A: Elisabeth de Mariaffi
BY Joan Sullivan
I usually come to new stories with either a first line or a first image in mind. With Hysteria, it was an image – almost a moment, really. A young mother, lounging on a wooden raft in a quiet pond with her child, suddenly is witness to a strange and unexplainable event. It’s a hot and lazy day, the woman is half-dozing. She looks up to see a second child, a strange little girl, has appeared out of nowhere.