Get cozy and cuddly this Valentine’s Day evening, with Newfoundland Quarterly!

January 2021

Join us in person, or online via Facebook Live, for an intimate evening of local music, writing, and hot cocoa & cookies at the Battery Cafe. We’ll also be drawing for our 2020 subscription prize, an original painting by Jean Claude Roy.

Our writer is Cynthia Boyd, and our musical guest is Matthew Hornell.

To attend in person, please register here:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ehjeovd06100e71d&oseq=&c=&ch=

You don’t need to register for the livestream: just head to our Facebook page during the event to join us. If you can’t attend in person, never fear, you can still pick up a cookie and cocoa in advance of the livestream! Just stop by the Battery Cafe anytime during open hours on February 14th.

This event (in-person and online) is free, and all are welcome!

Olivia Robinson: I want the reader to feel immersed

The Blue Moth Motel is your first novel, correct? What was your biggest challenge in expanding from short fiction? The Blue Moth Motel actually started as a short story, but…

“I would like to present our art as a way to show people just how beautiful, interesting, and curious the world around us is.”

At a recent St John’s Farmers Market, one particular booth caught NQ’s eye. Our Curious Collections featured found objects and artifacts, seaglass and mermaid’s purses, whelk and periwinkle shells, curated…

From the Archives Canada 150

Sending Up Kites

BY Matthew Hollett

NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY was founded in 1901, the same year Marconi flew a 500-foot kite on Signal Hill and intercepted the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The second-oldest magazine in Canada, NQ began as “a literary magazine of interest to Newfoundlanders at home and abroad,” which is not far off the way it describes itself today, as “a cultural journal of Newfoundland and Labrador.” That’s a remarkable persistency of purpose over 116 years.