Numéro Cinq is an online literary magazine founded in 2010 by the Governor-General's Award-winning Canadian novelist Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover (writer)

Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario...

. Numéro Cinq publishes a wide variety of new and established artists and writers with a bent toward the experimental, hybrid works, and work in translation as well as essays on the craft and art of writing.

History

The magazine's name comes from Glover’s short story “The Obituary Writer” (published in his collection Bad News of the Heart). The hero, based loosely on the author as a young newspaperman, harasses a neighbour by making loud noises in the night and pretending to be a member of a sinister terrorist group called Numéro Cinq.

Founder and Editor, Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover, who currently lives in upstate New York, was raised on a tobacco farm in southwestern Ontario. He studied philosophy at York University then received a M. Litt. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He also received an M.F.A from the University of Iowa’s Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He has published five collections of short stories, four novels, and two books of non-fiction. His stories have appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and The Oxford Book of Canadian Stories. In 2003, Glover’s novel Elle won the Governor-General’s Award for fiction and was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has been a newspaper reporter, a philosophy professor, a writing professor and an editor. He is currently on faculty at the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Contributors

Numéro Cinq has published stories, poems, creative non-fiction, sermons, plays, screenplays, photographs , and art work by new and established writers and artists.

American Writers Include: William Olsen

William Olsen

William Olsen is an American poet.Italic text-Life:He was raised in Park Forest, Illinois.His poems and essays have appeared in "Chicago Review, "Crazyhorse", "Gettysburg Review", "The Kenyon Review", "The Nation", The New Republic, Paris Review, "Poetry", "Poetry Northwest", Southern Review, ...

, Nancy Eimers

Nancy Eimers

-Life:She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University...

, Trinie Dalton, Nance Van Winckel, Joe David Bellamy, Jess Row

Jess Row

-Life:He attended Yale University and graduated in 1997. He later taught English in Hong Kong for two years before completing his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan in 2001....

, Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent book is A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling , and he has a ninth collection of poetry, Young of the Year, forthcoming from Four Way Books...

, David Rivard

David Rivard

David Rivard is an American poet.His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly. David Rivard is Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review, and teaches at the University of New Hampshire, and the Vermont College...

, Donald Breckenridge

Donald Breckenridge

Donald Breckenridge was founder and president of Breckenridge Hotels Corporation. Over the course of 43 years, he oversaw the building of 43 hotels in 11 US states, including the Breckenridge Pavilion, now the Pavilion Hotel, in St. Louis, Missouri....

, Leslie Ullman

Leslie Ullman

Leslie Ullman is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Slow Work Through Sand , co-winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her other honors include winning the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for her first book, Natural Histories,...

, Johannah Rodgers, Richard Jackson, Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel is an American short story writer and novelist. Her work hasappeared in The Quarterly, NOON, edited by Diane Williams, O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, OpenCity, Fence, Guernica, The Antioch Review, The Mississippi Review, The...

, Russell Working, Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two other nonfiction...

, Jack Myers

Jack Myers

John Edgar "Jack" Myers was an American molecular biologist and writer of popular science.Born in Pennsylvania, Myers graduated from Juniata College in 1933, and gained a Masters from Montana State University in 1935, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1939.Myers joined the University...

, and Domenic Stansberry.

Canadian Writers Include: Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke, CM is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario....

, Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Mavis Schoemperlen is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University....

, Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

Mavis Leslie Gallant, , née Mavis Leslie Young is a Canadian writer.-Biography:An only child, Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried. Gallant received her education at seventeen different public, convent, and French-language boarding...

, Bill Gaston

Bill Gaston

Bill Gaston is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer.Gaston grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Toronto, Ontario, and North Vancouver, British Columbia....

, Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman is a Canadian fiction writer.He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently a faculty member of the English department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton...

, Ann Ireland

Ann Ireland

Ann Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....

, David Helwig

David Helwig

David Helwig is a Canadian poet, novelist and essayist.David Helwig was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he spent his early childhood years. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father ran a small business repairing and refinishing furniture and...

, John B. Lee

John B. Lee

John Busteed Lee is a Canadian author and poet who is presently Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario. He has received more than 60 prestigious international awards for poetry.- Early life :...

, Karen Mulhallen, Stephen Henighan

Stephen Henighan

Stephen Henighan is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist and academic.Arriving in Canada at the age of five, Henighan grew up in rural eastern Ontario. He studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981...

, Genni Gunn

Genni Gunn

Genni Gunn is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator.Born in Trieste, Italy, she currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia...

, Goran Simic

Goran Simic

Goran Simic, a Bosnian poet, is recognized internationally for his works of poetry, essays, short stories and theatre.Goran Simić was born in Vlasenica, Bosnia in 1952 and has written eleven volumes of poetry, drama and short fiction, including Sprinting from the Graveyard , ; his work has been...

, Dave Margoshes, Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard

Keith Maillard is a fiction author and poet.Maillard has lived in various places in the United States and Canada.He attended West Virginia University and was host of a Boston campus radio programme.He moved to Canada in 1970, attaining citizenship in 1976.In the early 1970s, Maillard worked as a...

, Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise, OC is a Canadian author.Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee. They have two sons. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Blaise was also the director of...

, Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of ten books, including two short story collections, three novels, and five poetry collections...

, and Jack Hodgins

Jack Hodgins

For the fictional character from Bones see Jack Hodgins Jack Hodgins is a Canadian novelist and short story writer....

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Work in Translation Includes: Quim Monzó

Quim Monzó

thumb|Quim MonzóQuim Monzó , is a contemporary Catalan writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXprés...

, Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer was one of the most important Argentine novelists of the last fifty years.Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography. Thanks to a...

, Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

, Mihail Sebastian

Mihail Sebastian

-Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...

, Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...

, Habib Tengour

Habib Tengour

Habib Tengour is an French-Algerian poet, sociologist and anthropologist. He was born in Mostaganem in eastern Algeria in 1947. The Tengour family moved to France when Habib was five years old, and he grew up there in a working-class household. He studied sociology in France and continued his...

, Besik Kharanauli, Rilke, and Mathias Énard.

External links

• Numéro Cinq
• Douglas Glover