An Update on NDQ 92.3/4

As readers and contributors alike to NDQ might have figured out, we are very late with issue 92.3/4!  This is related to delays in the production workflow with our partners at the University of Nebraska Press and they have told us that the magazine will be in proofs in March. 

Louise Erdrich in the Quarterly

Bill Caraher | A colleagues asked me a few weeks ago whether I had a list of poems, stories, and interviews by Louise Erdrich that appeared in NDQ over the years. I admitted that I did not, but spent some time putting together some references. “The Beads” NDQ 52.2 (1984).

More Richard Lyons

Bill Caraher | For random reasons, the poet Richard Lyons’s name came across my social media feed this week. He was a faculty member at our neighbor to the south, NDSU, and a poet of significant reputation whose works appeared widely in national magazines. His work also featured regularly in

Public Domain Day 2026

Bill Caraher | One of the most exciting days of the year is Public Domain Day! On January 1 each year, works copyrighted 95 years prior enter the public domain. This means that anything published in the US in 1930 is now in the public domain! Happy New Year! For

North Dakota: A Twentieth-Century Valley Forge

Bill Caraher | It’s been a long and hectic end of the year here in North Dakotaland and I celebrated it by reading a piece published in The Nation in 1922. It was part of a series called “These United States” which invited an author for each state to discuss

Book by its Cover: The Children of Neverville

Sneak peek at the cover for the next book from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and North Dakota Quarterly.  Cover design by Kathleen Turley Cox. More to come:

The Bellman

Bill Caraher | Since many of you are probably waiting for the next issue of NDQ to appear (and we have heard that it is now in typesetting), we thought it might be fun to share some of NDQ’s contemporary publications from the early 20th century. The University of Pennsylvania

The Poetry of Alessio Zanelli

It is purely coincidental that Alessio Zanelli is the final contribution to appear in NDQ 92.3/4. We do not organize the volume in alphabetical order. That said, we do make sure that we can highlight here the final contribution to each issue and for 92.3/4 it’s Zanelli’s “Little Flower.” As

NDQ and Open Access Week 2025

Bill Caraher |  One of the things that I’m most proud of during my time at NDQ is working with my fellow editors to get most of the back issues of the journal released under various open access licenses (some, of course, have already entered the public domain!). This allows

Submission are OPEN

We’ve had a bit of a backlog and decided to close submissions for a while to catch up. Now, we’re caught up… ish and ready to see what folks have for us! Go here to submit poetry, essays, or fiction. There are three things you might want consider before sending

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