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The Rusty Toque's 2017 Pushcart Nominees

12/5/2017

 
Congratulations to The Rusty Toque's
2017 Pushcart Nominees:


“Fly-by” Dani Couture 
“300 Goats” by Richard Georges 
“[When the Gardens were] The Gardens” by Jeff Kirby
“Five More Minutes” by Kerrie McNair 
“Clown” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
"Swimming Studies" by 
Shannon Webb-Campbell

Dani Couture
Richard Georges
Jeff Kirby
Kerrie McNair
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Shannon Webb-Campbell

Congratulations to Alex Leslie on her Journey Prize nomination!

9/15/2016

 
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​Congratulations to Alex Leslie whose short story "The Person You Want to See" was longlisted for the 2016 Journey Prize.

The story was originally published in Issue 9 of The Rusty Toque and has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology!

Introducing our two new Rusty Toque editors

9/21/2015

 
We are thrilled to announce The Rusty Toque's new Interviews Editor, Adèle Barclay and Social Media Editor, Geoffrey Nilson.

Both are past contributors to The Rusty Toque, and we are excited to have them on board in their new roles.

Adèle Barclay's review of Jillian Tamaki's graphic novel Supermutant Magic Academy can be found in
Issue 8 and Geoffrey Nilson's poetry was featured in Issue 3.

INTERVIEWS EDITOR: ADÈLE BARCLAY

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Adèle Barclay is a writer and critic based in Vancouver. Her debut collection of poetry was shortlisted for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions. Her writing has been published in The Pinch, The Literary Review of Canada, Cosmonauts Avenue, Matrix, and elsewhere. Currently, she is the CWILA Links Editor and is writing a doctoral dissertation on American poetry and film.

SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR: GEOFFREY NILSON

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Geoffrey Nilson is a writer, editor, visual artist, and musician whose poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry is Dead, PRISM international, subTerrain, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, Soliloquies, rip/torn, Qwerty, and The Glasgow Review of Books. His work has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry and won Honourable Mention for the Alfred G Bailey Poetry Prize. Nilson is Contributing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and studies writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He lives in New Westminster, BC, Canada, with his daughter, Scarlett.

Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014

12/9/2014

 
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Congratulations to Kevin Spenst whose poem "no part of this abcentobook" from Issue 4 of The Rusty Toque appears in Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014 edited by Sonnet L’Abbé




2014 FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST RESULTS

9/1/2014

 
RUSTY TOQUE FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST
The Rusty Toque is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Fiction Chapbook Contest chosen by our judge Lee Henderson.

PictureJohn Jodzio
1st Place
You Cannot Give Yourself a Nickname by John Jodzio
Prize: $800 + prize pack + chapbook publication.

John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship. His stories have appeared in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections, “If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home” (Replacement Press) and “Get In If You Want To Live” (Paper Darts Press). He lives in Minneapolis. Find out more at www.johnjodzio.net


PicturePhillip Sterling
2nd Place
Amateur Husbandry by Phillip Sterling
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (story)

Phillip Sterling
’s very short stories have appeared in Midway Journal, Opium, Fiction At Work, Bear River Review, and Epiphany, among other places. In Which Brief Stories Are Told, a collection of fiction, was released from Wayne State University Press in 2011.  He is also the author of the poetry collection Mutual Shores and three chapbook-length series of poems: Significant Others, Quatrains, and Abeyance. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Fulbright Lectureships, and a P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award. In August 2014, he served as Artist-in-Residence of Isle Royale National Park. 


PictureMargaret Luongo
3rd Place
The War Artist - Margaret Luongo
Prize: $50 + prize pack + publication (excerpt)

Margaret Luongo's stories have appeared in Tin House, The Cincinnati Review, Granta.com, North American Review, FENCE, the Pushcart Prize anthology and other publications. In 2008, LSU Press published her story collection, If the Heart is Lean. She teaches creative writing for Miami University in Ohio and London.


Honorable Mentions
Prophecies of Consummation and Suspension by kevin martins mcpherson eckhoff
Three Stories by Lori Garrison
3 by Meghan Allen

Thanks everyone who submitted to the 2014 Chapbook Contest.

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First Place – Fiction Prize Pack

Polyamorous Love Song, a novel by Jacob Wren (BookThug, 2014)
Nine Inches, stories by Tom Perrotta (House of Anansi, 2013)
Savage 1986-2011, a novel by Nathaniel G. Moore (Anvil Press, 2013)
Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro (BookThug, 2014)
The Outside World, a novel by Barry Dempster (Pedlar Press, 2013)
The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky (Coach House, 2014)
The Devil and the Detective by John Goldbach (Coach House, 2013)


2nd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Two Sisters of Borneo, a novel by Ian Hamilton (House of Anansi, 2014)
All the Rage by A.L. Kennedy, stories (House of Anansi, 2014)
Atomic Storybook, a novel by Ed MacDonald (Anvil Press, 2013)
Cake Song, poems by Yoko’s Dog (Pedlar Press, 2013)
A, fiction by André Alexis (BookThug, 2013)
Guyana by Elise Turcotte, trans. by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House, 2014)

3rd Place – Fiction Prize Pack
Serafim and Claire, a novel by Mark Lavorato, (House of Anansi, 2014)
A Bird’s Eye, a novel by Cary Fagan (House of Anansi, 2013)
Thorazine Beach, a novel by Bradley Harris (Anvil Press, 2013)
no angel, poems by Annie McLurg (Pedlar Press, 2013)
I Don’t Know How to Behave, a fiction by Michael Blouin (BookThug, 2013)
Pastoral by Andre Alexis (Coach House, 2014)

We would like to thank our readers Amy Higgins, Rachel Ganzewinkel, Jennifer Nangreave, Kathryn Mockler, and Aaron Schneider, and our judge Lee Henderson.

Finally a special thanks to our sponsors without whom this contest would not be possible:

HARRIET BLOG: ON THE RUSTY TOQUE ISSUE 3

2/11/2013

 
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POETRY FOUNDATION ON ISSUE 3 OF THE RUSTY TOQUE!

"We’ve only recently discovered The Rusty Toque, but so far we’re enjoying what we see. Based in Canada, The Rusty Toque is an online magazine featuring interviews, visual art, fiction and–yes–poetry. Issue 3 features work by some of our favorite writers, like Jacob Wren and bill bissett, Robyn Read, and Ashley-Elizabeth Best."

Read More on The Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog.

NEW PAGES REVIEWS ISSUE 3 OF THE RUSTY TOQUE!

10/29/2012

 
The Rusty Toque, now in its third issue, is churning some solid butter. And instead of having just the traditional poetry, fiction, and nonfiction categories, The Rusty Toque publishes comics, monologues, art, and even videos. There is room in this home for a lot of different work.

“Going to a Party in Your Mid-Twenties” by Suzanne Sutherland is a second person narrative in which you—you guessed it—go to a party: “Later, in the kitchen—you still haven’t found So And So, So And So’s roommate says they may have gone to a bar somewhere in the neighbourhood, but they’re not sure—you notice your date’s ears for the first time. It’s only your second date, and the bar where you went on your first date—another bar somewhere in the neighbourhood—was very, very dark.”
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