Theme: From the Magazine
Spring 2025: On the Stands
The theme is Written on Water, packed with writing and visual art of flow and depth, from Katie Vautour‘s gorgeous cover, to Andrew Hawthorn‘s winsome, trenchant graphic narrative featuring the…
A sneak preview of our upcoming portfolio: Ila Kellermann & the Bareneed Studios
“I have always held an affirmation and interest in the tangible visual footprints of rocks, bone, and sediment. Newfoundland affords my art a front row seat to its natural raw…
Stanstead journey home
Earlier this week the Globe and Mail published “A border-straddling library, thrust into the geopolitical crosshairs” by Eric Andrew-Gee , Derby Line VT and Stansted QUE, G&M March 10 2025…
Ernest A Steinbrink: Architect, Engineer, and Inventor
A Renaissance man before the Renaissance By Robert Mellin Premier Joseph R Smallwood enthusiastically embraced modern architecture as part of his effort to create a new era of progress in…
The Newfoundland Renaissance
When people use the term, they are referencing this feature article, by Sandra Gwyn, published in Saturday Night magazine in 1976, wherein she coined the phrase: “Destruction of the outports…
All the Joys of the Season, & safe and happy holidays to all!
NQ will take a break as well – we’ll meet back here in January 2025; we already have exciting stuff lined up!
Announcing a new writing contest!
NQ and WritersNL are teaming up to present NL’s first creative non-fiction writing contest – essay, memoir, biography, travelogue, long-form journalism, or an excerpt from a longer piece are all…
The best laid plans etc
We’d hoped to be posting today from Corner Brook, where NQ was going to be part of a couple of events on the Grenfell campus, but the PAL aircraft had…
The 50th NL Craft Council Christmas Fair is on!
We’re set up at the Jack Byrne Arena amidst what one might call a plethora of artisans, craftspeople, and publishers. Come find us at booth #610, we have subscriptions and…
The Antarctic Ships of Newfoundland – excerpt from NQ Fall 2024
By Karin Murray-Bergquist SY Aurora The story of the Aurora begins somewhat more placidly. Her sealing and whaling career brought her from the dockyards of Dundee, Scotland, to the ice…
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…
Just one month to our subscription prize draw!
Our contest closes August 31, 2024. Until then anyone who buys, renews, or gives a subscription to NQ gets a ticket towards winning this gorgeous prize – No Straight Lines,…
Summer 2024 issue now on the stands!
The theme is Science Fiction, the cover is by Wallace Ryan, and you can buy it here, or subscribe here.
On the cusp of our summer issue
Join us on The Signal next Friday (June 14, noon in Newfoundland, 12:30 in Labrador) where we’ll be discussing the upcoming theme. Image: Sortie de l’opera en l’an 2000, by…
Spring issue 2024 – on the stands!
Text and imagery on the theme of Science, from our gorgeous cover, Pendulum Swings, by Vessela Brakalova, through etuaptmumk, moon gardens, to secret wartime technology out of Oppenheimer. Pick up…
In The Path of Totality: a rare cosmic event approaches
by Dr Svetlana Barkanova For most of us, observing the Total Solar Eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. On April 8, 2024, the Total Solar Eclipse will be visible from most…
Winter issue on the stands!
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…
Fall 2023 on the stands!
On the theme of Place, as in the geography, memory, and putting things in properly of. If you’d like to pick up an issue, or subscribe or give a subscription…
Summer issue on the Stands
On the theme of Hollywood, from NL’s earliest film stars and filmmakers, through the lyrics of a Ron Hynes’ classic, and packed with buzz and scoops and did-you-knows. On the…
Spring issue on the stands
We’re getting a great response to our spring issue, packed with assessments, appreciations, and imagery on the theme of Corner Stores. Where can you buy it? In St John’s, try…
Coming this spring, here’s a sneak peek at our theme – on the shelf April 3
One of our contributors, Luke Quinton, is part of a group of urban-design-minded people in St John’s, called Re-Vision YYT. Among other initiatives is a crowd-sourced map of both current…
Look inside our Winter issue!
BY NQ
The Winter issue of NQ is full of creatures who might make you feel better about spending so much time indoors!
Take a Peek Inside our Fall Issue!
BY NQ
We’re not quite ready to admit that summer is on the way out. Luckily, a new issue of NQ is now on-stands, ready to ease you into the Fall without any need for pumpkin spice.
A Sneek Peek of the Summer Issue!
BY NQ
On visual art Q&A with Daniel Rumbolt What subjects attract your eye, and why? I’m a sucker for clean lines, seamless blends, and a gorgeously muted (typically pastel) colour palette….
MAKING NEWFOUNDLAND’S SOLDIERS: THE NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT, THE BRITISH ARMY, AND TRAINING FOR BATTLE, 1914-1915
BY Dr Mike O’Brien
In early October 1914, the first contingent of the recently-raised Newfoundland Regiment left St John’s for England on SS Florizel, after having undergone a month of basic training at a…
Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs
BY Paul Chafe
I do see the beauty in Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs, I do. But I have been hearing these sad old tunes my whole life and I am just about ready to throw the accordion into the ocean.
Like Sand Through the Hourglass…
BY Joan Sullivan
Like sand through the hourglass, so is the creative cycle of NQ. Our Spring issue copy deadline is just one month away…
Portfolio: Patrick Thomas Canning Q&A
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
NQ: Where and when were you born? PTC: I was born on a sheep farm in the tiny Hamlet of The Highlands in the Codroy Valley area of the province…
1917: The Year the War Came Home
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IN THE FALL 2017 issue of The Newfoundland Quarterly, we explore the ramifications of WWI on Newfoundland and Labrador. But what exactly was life like 100 years ago? Here are some facts to read before diving into this issue.
Woody Point: Doing it the Write Way
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IF IT WAS purely artistic, with no connection to the community, it wouldn’t work.
The Trout River Blue Whale
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IN MAY 2014, two blue whale carcasses washed up on the beaches of Trout River and Rocky Harbour. There are only 250 estimated in the North Atlantic, perhaps 20,000 worldwide.
Spirit Bird
BY Gary L Saunders
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, having canvassed the country for two years, had finally narrowed the search to Perisoreus canadensis, a robin-sized cousin of the raven and crow native to every province and territory and nowhere else on the planet. Unlike most of our birds, it stays up north year-round, nesting in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. Hardy, smart, loyal and friendly – what could be more Canadian?
“They were clean, decent people… but they had no money”
BY Katie Vautour
THERE WERE a hundred ways to get home that didn’t involve walking past the Colonial Building. We didn’t take any of them.
The day NL started driving on the right side of the road
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
WHERE WERE THE “series of cannonading accidents that would overflow hospitals, and maim or kill the majority of the city’s young and old, man and womanhood …” that had been predicted?