Welcome to TriQuarterly Online After a distinguished history as an international literary magazine, this university-sponsored print journal, which has been edited by Charles Newman, Elliott Anderson, Reginald Gibbons, and Susan Hahn, will have a "soft launch" April 27, with a blog, interviews with Rosellen Brown, Sterling Plumpp, and both Lee and Sam Gutkind, and excerpts from the Gutkinds' book Truckin’ with Sam: A Father and Son, The Mick and The Dyl, Rockin’ and Rollin’, On the Road, and from the novel Drain by Davis Schneiderman. The first issue will be published July 5, with new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and drama by William Gass, Joe Meno, Antonya Nelson, Steve Almond, Achy Obejas, Thisbe Nissen, G. K. Wuori, Jenny Boully, Maureen Seaton, Michael Anania, Alan Shapiro, Karen Brennan and others. Audrey Niffenegger will be our first cover artist.
About TQO
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.
Welcome! We hope you enjoy this new form of what has been one of the premier literary journals of the nation, and we look forward to receiving your comments and responses on our blog.