NDQ 87.1/2 has gone to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press, so it seemed like a good time to share the table of contents for the issue.

We’ve rejiggered the table of contents to organize the contributions by genre, although the body of the journal will continue with the free interplay between fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We might  also move the contributor bios to the back of the journal for a bit more of a conventional, literary journal organization. These are minor, “inside baseball” kind of things, though.

Along similar lines, if you’re attending this year’s AWP (here’s the program), you might want to check out our fiction editor, Gilad Elbom, who is presenting on Friday March 6 pm at the 12:10 pm panel (with NDQ Contributor’s J.A. Bernstein and Ronna Wineberg) titled: The Role of the Literary Journal in Publishing Noncommercial Fiction. Here’s the abstract for the panel:

“The Little Magazines,” wrote Lionel Trilling in 1946, “keep a countercurrent moving” and “make the official representatives of literature a little uneasy.” Seventy-four years later, we ask if journals are still bent on the same experimenting and countercultural relevance. Looking at fiction, we ask what formal traits and conventions of commercial publishing are resisted in “little magazines” and if this resistance hinders or helps the effort to include writing from underrepresented communities.

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If you have to travel over the next month, please be careful! And if you feel like some pandemic related fiction would somehow help, please check out Megan Howell’s “Harper and Marisol” from NDQ 86.3/4.

As always, remember that NDQ relies on our outstanding contributors, editors, and subscribers to thrive. Please consider submitting to NDQ, subscribing, or downloading our previous volume. For some content from from our most recent issue, NDQ 86.3/4, click here. For a preview from our next issue, 87.1/2, go here.

Here is the table of contents from NDQ 87.1/2:

Editor’s Note

Of Bagpipes and Brexit, Cabbages and Kings
SHEILA LIMING

Fiction

Ahead of You
TERENA ELIZABETH BELL

The Pleasure
ELIZABETH DELCONTE

Activities
ANDREA GREGORY

The Wedding
RICHARD RISEMBERG

One Time I Saw A Rhythm
T. BEN BRYANT

White Birch Winter
ELSA NEKOLA

Ursa
SHANE CASTLE

The Workshop
DAN MOREAU

how it will happen
T.L. TOMA

Non-Fiction

The Beginning of The End
SUSAN EVE HAAR

Talking to Myself
MICHAEL COHEN

Appearances
GARY FINCKE

Out of Silence, Voice
EMILEE MOELLER

Role Playing Games
EVAN HIGGINS

Poetry

The Movie
DANNY P. BARBARE

When I Paint My Masterpiece
JAMES BRADLEY WELLS

A Family Kingdom of Isolation
BRETT STOUT

What We Talk About When We Talk About Mary
Psychic Tarot Cards by Devon
MEG EDEN

Still Life with Chickens
Construction Site
Assembling the Bed
Brighton
WHITNEY WATERS

My Man Stayed with Me
My Name is Wife
KARIN AURINO

A Toast Before Labor Day
WILLIAM RUDOLPH

Thanksgiving
Separation Anxiety
JOHN DORROH

camptown races
Lament for Sick Boys
loss: a fragment
AJ DEXTER

1453 and All That
The Song of The Hit Man
Snowscape with Crows
KIRBY OLSON

Guernica
SIMON ANTON NINO DIEGO BAENA

A Diaspora Of Sorts
ROBERT HALLECK

Mosquitoes
CAMERON MORSE

When You Died at the Dassel Lake Nursing Home
TRACY YOUNGBLOM

Unrequited Desolation
NANDINI DHAR

Privacy
JOHN CULLEN

while i watch my uncle bury the afterbirth
O-JEREMIAH AGBAAKIN

Partial Reading List
Unjustified
PETER HUFF

Dark Sky and Cop Ash
A Father’s Admonition
I Cannot Consume
STEVE LOVETT

Temptations
ANDREA MOORHEAD

For the Makers
Before Flight
Dream Therapy
HANNAH MARSHALL

Outrider
PAULA FRIEDMAN

Still
BONNIE LARSON STAIGER

Big Bertha
JOHN BLAIR

Bringing Back the Fire
KIMBERLY L. BECKER

As Sea Levels Rise & Fall
Daughter: the sin that lives on my tongue
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Lessons from An Ordinary Life
SHEREE LA PUMA

Backbone
St. Louis of the After
MARK B. HAMILTON

The Fermi Paradox
DANTE DI STEFANO

The Night the Stars Fell
Black Smoke on the Horizon
JOHN C. MANNONE

Canaveral
Land Management
Born For
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS

The Land Can Speak
LAURA MARTINEZ

Ode to Arik Roper
MAX STEPHAN

Rocky Soil
Ida Lake
Dig
Pawling Park
LAURA MCCOY

Winter Song
LESLIE SCHULTZ

John Fahey Begins His Public Life as a Ta, Hawaii, 1962
KEITH CARVER

“No, that’s a canard”
Garretson
DONNA KATHRYN KELLY

Nightsounds
LAURINDA LIND

What Girls Learn
Limits
ANNE DYER STUART

About The Time I First Read The Riot Act
EDWARD MAYES

Discard your idols
Working for God is never easy
Glare
Look here
REN PIKE

She Writes Poems
saving the world
CALVIN WHITE

Ghost Cub
Glue Lam
California Gold
ANA MARIA SPAGNA

Finding A World Inside This World
TOM C. HUNLEY

Untitled
RICHARD WEAVER

The Smallest Russian Doll
CHARLES RAFFERTY

A Village Highflier Or Failure?
NDABA SIBANDA

Death by Project Management Webinar
EMILY SCUDDER

Nothing Has Been Proven by Reaching the End
JEREMY GRIFFIN

87.1/2