TriQuarterly is the literary magazine of Northwestern University. It is edited by students in the Litowitz MFA+MA Graduate Creative Writing Program and the MFA in Prose and Poetry in the School of Professional Studies. Alumni of these programs and other readers also serve as editorial staff. Available around the world, TriQuarterly has remained “an international journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry. TQ has created an online archive of its own history by publishing individual works from its past, sometimes with new accompanying comments by the writers. The Northwestern University Library has digitized the entire history of the journal.
Poets should submit no more than six poems per cycle, and should place all poems in a single document.
Prose authors may submit one story under 5,000 words or up to three pieces of flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer, each) in a single document. While we encourage simultaneous submissions to other journals, we do not accept multiple submissions from one author in a reading period. Please submit only once per three-month open call.
Please limit formats to .doc, .docx, .rtf, and PDF. We suggest keeping your font to 12-point Times New Roman and double-spacing all prose submissions.
We do not publish previously published work.
We do not publish creative work by current Northwestern MA/MFA students or those who have graduated from our program within the past five years, or by program faculty.
