About TriQuarterly

TQO is the literary magazine of Northwestern University and of the MA/MFA in Creative Writing program. Edited by graduate students in the program, supervised by faculty, and available around the world, TriQuarterly Online will remain "an international journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry." Soon TQO will also begin to create an online archive of its own history by publishing individual works from its past, often with new accompanying comments by the writers. The Northwestern University Library is embarking on the project of digitizing the entire history of the journal.

As a web journal, TQO will also have the new capacity of adding audio, video, and a variety of new and frequently uploaded content to supplement its schedule of publishing issues twice a year. In 1958, the "tri-quarterly" was so named because its original form as a student magazine was published in each of the three quarters of Northwestern's academic year, and not in the fourth quarter, summer. This name has been belied at times by the magazine's real publishing schedule, but now TQO will alter the tradition quite deliberately to one of semi-annual publishing of discrete issues and frequent updating with new reviews, interviews, blog posts and excerpts from longer works. And for the first time, new writing published in this journal can be read everywhere there is web access.

Faculty advisers Susan Harris and Gina Frangello cut the ribbon to the new TriQuarterly Online office in Wieboldt Hall on Northwestern’s Chicago campus. Photo by Stephanie Tran.