The New Quarterly

The New Quarterly is a literary magazine that publishes literary short fiction and poetry from emerging and established Canadian writers. We also publish nonfiction essays with a focus in the craft and industry of creative writing.

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The New Quarterly

FROM THE EDITOR

YOU SHOULD JUST PAINT

Mary Jain’s Last Dawn

What Has Gone Away, What Remains

Shelter: A Personal History

Known As

At Dawn, the Mist

Domestic Pigs

The Call of the Void

Letting It Happen

A Beauty in Silence

impossible demands

Here and There

The Diagnosis

Alice’s Yearning

Two Poems

A Drop of Water

Haptic Mirror after Magdalene Odundo, Untitled #10 (1995)

The Love Language of Roaches

The Shadows Asleep

Landlord

The Storytellers

to be, at last

The Surfeit

The Cabin

Safekeeping

Downtown

The Next Mile

Solidarity from the extant diaspora

How the Intersections of Queer and Palestinian Identities Swipe at the Achilles’ Heel of Zionism

Three Poems

CURTAIN CALL

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