Submissions

TriQuarterly Online welcomes submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short drama, and hybrid work. We also welcome short-short prose pieces. We suggest that poets submit only six poems per cycle and prose authors limit each piece to 3,500 words. We especially are interested in work that embraces the world and continues, however subtly, the ongoing global conversation about culture and society that TriQuarterly pursued from its beginning in 1964. TQO pays honoraria for creative work. We only accept pieces submitted online. We do not accept mailed submissions. We do not publish creative work by current Northwestern MA/MFA students or those who have graduated from our program within the past five years, or by program faculty. We do accept multiple prose submissions per author.

While we accept simultaneous submissions in all genres, please email us immediately at tqopoetry@u.northwestern.edu to notify us of any status changes regarding your poetry submission and triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu for all other genres.

If you would like to review books or literary events, interview an author, or propose a craft essay, please submit your query online with "query-review," etc., as the title. TQO issues are published twice a year. The blog, reviews, and other features are refreshed weekly.

Reading Period:

We accept submissions from October 1 to July 15. The online Submission Manager will not be open to submissions between July 16 and September 30, however you will be able to log in to update your account and check submission status during that time.