The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2026 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. “Ocean of Emptiness” by Karen Armstrong “Vanishing Point” by Peter Ball “At the Waist” by Morgan Beck “Lorraine’s Secret” by Joey Bongiorno “A Bend in the Road” by Martin Borden “Thaw” by Paige Churchill “The Yellow Kitchen” by […]

I just read Anne Baldo's 'This is Your Sign to Leave Him', which was an honourable mention in the MRB Fiction Contest. The story is published in Volume 47,

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It's hard to know a place by car. When I travel, I walk a lot, and when possible, I bike.

Trent Lewin Civilizations end quietly. No world ever blew itself to pieces. No people were ever so stupid as to kill themselves in a moment of ignorance. It takes time.

By Trent Lewin Heated ghee crackles in a pan. Smell of soft fat circulates through the kitchen. Upstairs, Bakshi opens the window and smokes. Across the street, an ice cream van sits in a driveway,…

A story called "Snake-Proof" was published in Issue 176 of The New Quarterly (TNQ). TNQ is my local Waterloo-based literary magazine. It is a beautiful

The Doge of Flatbush was just published by Peatsmoke, for which I am eternally glad.

The Doge of Flatbush was just published by Peatsmoke, for which I am eternally glad.

What are the best songs of 2025? I mean, subjectively so, of course. I had to pick something, so I picked these. A good year for music. Not the best year for

I never know what's going on in the heads of other people, and I often don't ask: "how do you feel?", so I plug in their internal struggles by making my

A story called "Snake-Proof" was published in Issue 176 of The New Quarterly (TNQ). TNQ is my local Waterloo-based literary magazine. It is a beautiful

I just got my hardcopies of Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall (Fall 2025). I have two stories in this. 'Still Me, Still You', which shares third place in the

Baseball is the one game that can make you cry. Sports are a funny tradition of on-the-fly stories built up during a game or a match, heightening tension,

Excited to have a ‘Distinguished Story’ in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2025. What’s this mean? The story is not published in the anthology.

Grateful to have won 3rd place in the FreeFall Literary Magazine Prose contest, and to be winner of the Lynn Fraser Memorial Award. I wanted to talk about the

Tron: Ares is the best movie I’ve seen all year. There, I said that completely improbable statement, but I did so with utter seriousness. Previously, I had

Tron: Ares is the best movie I’ve seen all year. There, I said that completely improbable statement, but I did so with utter seriousness. Previously, I had

I woke up at 3:30 am. There was a noise downstairs. Plastic rustling and maybe a drawer being closed.

Wolf Alice is the greatest band in the world. I suspected this but didn’t fully get it until I saw them in Toronto on September 23rd, 2025, at History. Yes,

I’m so busy right now but I make time for reading, so just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.