(March 28th, 2025)
WritersNL and NQ are pleased to announce the winners of our first Creative Non-fiction Writing Contest!
Newfoundland Quarterly (NQ) has been publishing exceptional stories, art, and photography, since 1901.
NQ explores the cultures, history, and life as Newfoundland and Labrador’s cultural magazine.
The NQ print edition is published four times annually, with weekly posts on the NQ website to help fill the gap (sometimes quarterly just isn’t enough!)
Past issues of NQ (with a five-year firewall) can be found at the Digital Archives Initiative here.
The 2025 NQ Creative Non-fiction Writing Contest winners are:
1st Place: The Third Line of My Haiku by Christina Wells
2nd Place: Outside Into the World by Chris Peters
3rd Place: A House Downtown by Jess Richardson
Thanks to all who submitted to this contest!
Stay tuned to NQ to read these stories in their next issue to be published April 1, 2025!
Read about our winners:
Christina Wells (she/her) is a writer from Northern Arm, Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk who explores concepts of memory and place through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New Quarterly, ROOM, Riddle Fence, and Horseshoe Literary Magazine. She’s currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Chris Peters works as a teacher in St. John’s. He is keen on getting his students outdoors. His interest in wooden boat-building can be traced back to his father, who built a sailing dory in Grey River, a cedar strip canoe and decked canoe in Saint John, NB that traversed the Fundy coastline and New Brunswick riverways. Chris enjoys camping with his wife, two children and yappy dog.
Jessica Richardson was born in Cape Breton, raised in the Comox Valley, formed in Nanaimo, and will die in Newfoundland, where she lives in A House Downtown St. John’s with her three cats, Chichi, Dennis, and Nathan. She recently graduated with her Master’s degree in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she completed her first book, The Absurd Degree (forthcoming).
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