Call for submissions: Summer 2018

NQonline.ca, the Newfoundland Quarterly’s online alter-ego is seeking creative non-fiction, columns, articles, personal narrative, fiction, and poetry on topics relevant to Newfoundland and Labrador culture. Themes could include: Identity History…

Our Summer issue is here!

BY NQ

Summer is here, and so is another issue of Newfoundland Quarterly! This time, we’re exploring the idea of composition: we’re putting things and ideas together, seeing how one concept, stitch…

Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds

BY Eva Crocker

As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.

Hitchhiking

BY Andrea McGuire

It’s a tricky thing, leaving St John’s. And here, I’m talking solely in terms of travelling logistics. Sure, people do it all the time – they board planes, or maybe…