Winter Issue now on stands

BY NQ

December 2017

Our Winter issue exploring the theme of Indigenous Leadership is now on stands.

The issue features a beautiful cover by Marcus Gosse, and art from Jason Sikoak, Heather Campbell, Monika Rumbolt, and Ryan Winters.

Our features include a story about the “Daughters of Mikak” project, celebrating Inuit women’s leadership in Nunatsiavut, a pair of stories about life on Fogo Island, past and present, and an exploration of the excavation of Calvert by Robyn S. Lacey, a recent graduate of the archaeology program at Memorial University.

There is also poetry by Shannon Webb-Campbell and Jan Morrison, and book reviews of new work by both Mary Walsh and Wayne Johnston.

The issue is available at select retailers, including Rocket Bakery, Johnny Ruth, and Chapters.

To subscribe to the Newfoundland Quarterly, please email nfqsub@mun.ca or call 709-864-2426. The cost of an annual subscription is: $30/1yr, $55/2yr (Canadian), $40/yr (US), $50/yr (International). 

From the ArchivesCanada 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.