Volume I Issue IV

So, the new issue should (should) be available in approximately one - worst case scenario, two - weeks.
To give you a small preview of what things will look like, we've included (below) a page from the magazine that provides a bit of background about the upcoming featured writers. Some of it is biographical; some if it is simply us singing their praises/giving our reasons for selecting the piece.

September's always a good month. After a summer spent in various North American cities, we're now back in Antigonish and looking forward to the usual good stuff.

NEWS
Anyone interested will be able to visit The FVQ online very, very soon at the following address:
www.thefvq.com
We're putting the finishing touches on the site i.e spending an unreasonable amount of time adjusting fonts and it is ALMOST ready to go public. Please check for it in about a week or so and tell us how much you love it.


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WHO YOU WILL FIND IN THE SUMMER 2008 ISSUE OF THE FREQUENT & VIGOROUS QUARTERLY:

MITCHELL JOHNSTON is always worth reading. He’s been featured in each and every one of our issues so far and this is most certainly not by default. His short story “Reflections in the Bathroom of an Inner City Apartment” is all at once hilarious, intelligent and refreshing. Considering the question of where fiction begins and ends is always a great place to start when approaching Johnston’s work.

J.J STEINFELD has published a novel, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation (Pottersfield Press, 1987), as well as nine short story collections - most recently, Would You Hide Me? (Gaspereau Press, 2003). We're so, so happy to include his smart, sensitive work in the magazine. As our featured marquee author for the upcoming year, his writing is something, we think, for everyone to aspire to.

J.J INA STEEVES is new to our magazine as a writer and photographer. Her photographs are expressive and somewhat eerie. And we like this about them. “I Will Never be a Mother Again” is one of the best short poem’s we’ve received. We find it deceptively simple. Her word-play, like her photographs, is both stylized and unnerving. Most of all, the poem has a certain strength that compels the reader to listen.

JONATHON SVEC is definitely one of our hardest working contributors. His beautifully crafted short piece, “Coloured Leaves Fall” is included in this issue and explores a complicated relationship.

DANIEL O’NEILL wrote the short piece “An Admission” and we liked it immediately. It’s almost begging for expansion, but we’re still kind of drawn to the sparse quality of his few sentences. And, to be honest, we like pretty much anything that references Radiohead and does it well.

JANET THORNING is another new contributor to the FVQ. We’ve published “Rebirth”, a brief, dreamy poem rich in language and mixed metaphor. Look for more from Thorning in issues to come.

MAXX HARTT spent a lot of time in airports over the past year. His work of non-fiction, “An Insomniatic Adventure” is riffing on the common experience of mass air travel and comes to us in a timely fashion given our travel-themed summer issue. We always enjoy Maxx’s humour and his uncanny optimism.

JIM JOHNSTONE is a two-time winner of the E.J Pratt medal and prize in poetry. His first book of poetry, The Velocity of Escape is forthcoming from Guernica Editors. Johnstone also edits a literary magazine out of Toronto, Ontario (which is close to home for both of us) called Misunderstandings Magazine (www.misunderstandingsmagazine.com) His poems are wonderful - intelligent and thoughtful; we're genuinely flattered in receiving his submission.

MCKINLEY M. HELLENES wrote a story for this issue that left us both uncharacteristically speechless. So as not to spoil the fun, we'll simply say: she's a serious talent. Reading "Slow Children at Play" made one of our editors really want to re-visit her first love of writing for film. You can really see this story. Based in Mission, British Columbia, McKinley's stories & poems have appeared in Broken Pencil, Kiss Machine, Memewar, The Liar, and an assortment of other literary anthologies/magazines with names just as cool as ours.




. He is a two time winner of the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry