Winter issue on the stands!

December 2023

The theme is Travel, and we’ll take you from Bulgaria to Belleoram, from the cherry blossoms in Tokyo to a bull ride in Mexico, to childhood and back.

With writing from Edward Riche, Cynthia Boyd, Adam Walsh, and Katie Vautour, and artwork from Jessie Donaldson, Peter Jackson, and Cory Collins – and a gorgeous cover from David Baltzer. Subscriptions are available here, and we have retail outlets across the country. And you can also find us at the St John’s Farmer’s Market Stocking Stuffer Fair this Sunday!

(Cover image: David Baltzer; illustration, Katie Vautour)

The Big Splash

Tzu-Hao Hsu: Where there was water I was first one in and always, always last one out

I was born in the year of the Water Pig. A few days after my arrival, my family brought my stars of conception and birth to a soothsayer who calculated…

From the Magazine

Prize draw just days away!

Join us on Wednesday, September 11, on CBC Radio’s The Signal with host Adam Walsh – we’ll be chatting about our fall issue, Swift Sails, Fearful Wrecks (publishing next week!) and…

Poetry Canada 150

Falling Leaves Write About Themselves

BY Matthew Hollett

I WANTED TO TRY collaging together a poem from the pages of an old issue of NQ. I chose the Spring 1963 issue because it features the exact same photo of a whitecoat seal that was on the cover in Spring 1962… except with awkwardly-pasted additional seals.