Bill Caraher |
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Is this thing on?
We’ve been a bit quiet here at North Dakota Quarterly headquarters juggling getting new issues out the door and raising funds to keep the lights on (and to publish more new issues).
Since rumor have circulated concerning our magazine’s demise, it’s probably time to get the blog going again (and to avoid the cliche about news of demise) and update our readers. First, we have continued to submit manuscripts on time to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press. NDQ 92.3/4 went to press October 1, 2025, NDQ 93.1/2 went to press on March 1, 2026, and NDQ 93.3/4 went to press around October 1, 2026. Our friends at UNP, however, are back logged. We have been told that issues will appear in March of 2026, then in August and September. They have not, but this isn’t necessarily alarming. There is a classic comic that shows a harried editor with a calendar that reads “NOW!” and for every other month “Later.” As a sometime publisher, I understand how this can happen and it has taught me patience.
To make up for delays that are beyond our control, we will start to post some things here on the blog over the next few months starting with the table of contents for issue 93.3/4
Fiction
Role Play
Heather Thomspon-Brenner
The First Annual Oakwood Hill Cemetery Walk
Randy Devita
The Fen
Joseph Gosler
This House of Women
Dennis Vanatta
That Big Number 50
Marcus Berkemeier
The Summit
Meghan Proulx
Mayday
Richard Wirick
Essays
On the Anxiety of Schoolchildren: Observations from a Lunch/Recess Aide
Carol Berg
Calving
M. Mark Miller
Fear and Loathing in Pickleball
Zack Ford
Brief History of Violets
Anca Szilagyi
The Video Kept Playing
Neriza Gueta
Poetry
The Sun Bearer’s Pollen
Mad Anthropoid’s Disease
The Nut Doesn’t Fall Far From The Bergonic Chair
Zoé Mahfouz
Cardiocontusion
Kelly Talbot
bless the wolf girls
if my cat has never actually seen a mouse
Ellen Fee
Lyrics From a Visit to Rome (Suite of Poems)
罗马行吟（组诗）
Wang Fangwen (Tr. Chen Du and Xisheng Chen)
Language Lesson
Birds
Naming Names
Jani Mordenski
Floaters
Mercedes Lawry
The Spin on Things
William Heath
Remember the Dormouse
Eric Brown
Chronoscope 229: Early May, After Wind
Chronoscope 219: Apropos: The leaves on the tree across the street have turned an amazing deep red
Chronoscope 239: I’m waiting for torrential rain
John Walser
Departures
David Solheim
A Child’s View
Janet Black
The Course Taken
John Zheng
The Restaurant
Black Cat
Ken Wuetcher
Machine Woman and the Telemadness
Agnostic Invokes God
Image of a Frenchwoman Eating a Late-Night Meal
Lucy Rattner
The Lost Tomte
Holly Stockley
Cowgirl
Buffalo Run
Barrel Racing
Karol Nielson
Lost Faces
Victor Ogan
The Library
Jeremy Stelzner
A Proposal for Three More Dimensions of Wellness
Ndaba Sibanda
End Notes 007 Novels
Michelle Disler
OXYGEN I / Icarus: My Wings
Ascent: Red Tails ─ A Letter
Beth Brown Preston
Thinking About the College Dropout Who Got in a Car Accident
The Tragedy of Stepin Fetchit
Black Olympiads at the ’36 Games
The Price of Spectacle: Barnum’s Gaze and Joice Heth’s Story
Matthew Johnson
Diary
Helena Jiang
Self-Portrait Not Smoking a Cigar
Kevin J.B. O’Connor
I want to plant corn
The Airplane
Uncle Caiman
Carlos Francisco Changmarín (Tr. Lily Balloffet)
We Sing a Memorial Song for the State
Conduct Certificate
Pitambar Naik
The Lion Tamer
Stephen Barile
A Fisheries Scientist Barely Nurtures A Larval Career
During Salmon Trolling Season In Southeast Alaska
Peter Munro
