The Quarantine Review

21/03/2024

Next up on our Spring Spotlight is Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan, coming May 7 from House of Anansi Press

Pre-order the collection generating more buzz than a beehive here:

https://houseofanansi.com/products/peacocks-of-instagram

15/03/2024

The QR Spring Spotlight continues with Withered, a q***r psychological horror by AGA Wilmot, available April 16th from .

Pre-order a copy today!

https://ecwpress.com/products/withered #:~:text=Withered%20is%20q***r%20psychological%20horror,PRE%2DORDER%20NOW!

04/03/2024

*Spring Spotlight*

1st up in the QR's Spring Spotlight is Who By Fire: A Dame Polara Mystery by contributor Greg Rhyno coming April 20th from Cormorant Books

Pre-order it today:

Dame Polara has spent her adult life in the shadow of her father, a shady private investigator. Now, she must rely on the skills he taught her if she’s to protect herself and the people she cares about most.

27/10/2023

The QR Podcast's Halloween Special 3 is here from beyond the grave!

Listen here:
https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/28313299

20/10/2023

Take a journey into fear by revisiting our Halloween Special #2, featuring stories by Anuja Varghese Andrew Wilmot and Eddy Boudel Tan from the anthology Q***r Little Nightmares.

Listen here:

https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/23648457

13/10/2023

A.G. Pasquella

15/08/2023

The Summer Time Hotlist is here for all your cottage/beach/patio reading needs!

Check out the QR's picks for the hottest books from the first half of 2023!

https://www.thequarantinereview.ca/main/summer2023

28/03/2023

Head over to our website right this second for some brand-spanking-new fiction by MJ Malleck!

MJ Malleck

27/03/2023

Start your week with some powerful creative nonfiction by poet extraordinaire Kim Fahner!

The author of the poetry collection Emptying the Ocean explores the joys and sorrows of swimming in the lakes of our pandemic world.

Read it here:

Kim Fahner

15/03/2023

To celebrate the release of Anuja Varghese's debut short story collection Chrysalis, we've put together a special episode of the QR Podcast. It's a "greatest hits" compilation of Anuja's appearances on the program. Tune in to hear an interview with Anuja, as well as hear her read two creepy stories from our Halloween podcasts.

Listen here:

https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/25086551

01/01/2023

Part 2 of The Quarantine Review Podcast Year-end Special is available now!

Lisa de Nikolits and Anuja Varghese list their favourite books of 2022 and give us their top book prospects of 2023!

Tune in here:
https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/24206212

27/12/2022

Part 1 of The Quarantine Review Podcast's two-part, year-end special is here!

Hollay Ghadery and Samantha K. Garner tell us their favourite books of 2022 and their most anticipated releases of 2023.

Listen here:

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25/12/2022

Wishing you all comfort, joy, warmth and friendship this holiday season, and the very best of luck in the new year!

Merry Christmas!

24/12/2022

The QR Podcast is seeking out the best books of 2022 and the most exciting prospects of 2023. To that end, we've enlisted 4 all-stars to share their picks of top titles.
Hollay Ghadery, Samantha K. Garner, Lisa de Nikolits and Anuja Varghese share so many literary hot tips it's a two-parter!

Part 1 drops Dec. 27!

23/12/2022

As announced in Issue 14, the magazine is going on hiatus. We'll continue using our site, podcast and social media to promote writers and writing while we figure out our next steps.

Thank you for contributing, reading & supporting the QR!

21/12/2022

Issue 14 is home for Christmas!

Find some incredible pieces of writing in our latest issue!

It features short stories by Roz Milner and Debra Martens, along with a novel excerpt from Alex Pugsley.

It also has a poetic dialogue by Kim Fahner and Ariel Gordon, and poems by Frances Boyle and K.R. Wilson.

And be sure to check out the creative nonfiction by Laura Vukson and Susan Glickman, not to mention the Holiday Hotlist!

Find it here:
https://www.thequarantinereview.ca/main/issue14

16/12/2022

Episode 9 of The Quarantine Review Podcast is here!

Tune in for a poem by Aila Omar, an interview with editor Bryan Jay Ibeas and a song by Stan Simon.

Listen here:

https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/24063280

15/11/2022

Issue 13 is officially here!

This year's pulp special includes horror, fantasy and crime fiction by Shaun Jex, Mike Lee, Kayla-Jane Barrie, K.A. Mielke and Daniel Wade.

It also features an excerpt from Ronald A. A. Geobey's sci-fi novel Pawns of the Prophet and an interview with Anna Dowdall, author of the mystery novel April on Paris Street.

Download it free here:

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31/10/2022

Halloween is here and as a special treat, we bring you The Halloween Hotlist, our top 5 Spooky Season must-read new book releases.

From the all-too-human evils to the monstrous and macabre, a list of the hottest Spooky Season releases for 2022.

28/10/2022

Leave the waking world for a land not of dreams, but of nightmares.

Listen to The Quarantine Review Podcast's 2022 Halloween Special: "QR Little Nightmares" now.

https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/23648457

24/10/2022

Tune in for terror this Friday! The Quarantine Review Podcast's 2nd Annual Halloween Special, "QR Little Nightmares," drops October 28th.

We have scary stories by Anuja Varghese, Andrew Wilmot and Eddy Boudel Tan, not to mention an interview with the editors of Q***r Little Nightmares.

13/10/2022

The first Re:Launch was an overwhelming success! Thank you all those that attended and thanks to our readers Catherine Bush, Samantha K. Garner, A.G. Pasquella and J.J. Dupuis. Also many thanks to Ian from A Different Drummer Books and to the staff of The Edmund Burke.

12/10/2022

Please join us this evening!

26/09/2022

Start your week with some fabulous fiction by Maria Kubacki, author of A Plague of Frogs ( Frog Hollow Press), which was featured in our 12th issue.

Read it here:

Maria Kubacki

23/09/2022

Season Two of The Quarantine Review Podcast starts here!

Tune in to hear novelist S.M. Freedman discuss her new book Blood Atonement and hear poems by Conyer Clayton, Kim Fahner and Mark Sampson.

https://app.talkshoe.com/episode/23390056

19/09/2022

The Quarantine Review Podcast returns this Friday!

Episode 7 features an interview with Shoshona Freedman, where she discusses her forthcoming thriller Blood Atonement, as well as her life as a private investigator.

The episode also features poetry by Conyer Clayton, Kim Fahner and Mark Sampson.

29/08/2022

Katie Welch's Mad Honey has another great review in the Quarantine Review! You can learn more about the book here: https://buff.ly/3c1VhfT

12/08/2022

Get those pulp submissions in before August 15th!

3000 word max.

Send to [email protected]

20/07/2022

Issue #12 is here and free to download at www.thequarantinereview.ca

18/07/2022

COVER REVEAL!!!

Issue 12 is just a day away, featuring great poetry, fiction, interviews, a graphic novel excerpt and our summer reading recommendations.

Stay tuned!