Every now and then something drifts through my email (or, in this case, text message) that feels like it deserves a post here on the ole NDQ Blog. Last week, I was discussing Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres which is the Clell Gannon book that we’re bringing back to
We have a tradition at NDQ to always make sure that the first piece from an issue that appears on the NDQ website is the LAST piece that appears in the issue. This our little effort at ritual inversion (think: carnival, just two months late). It also makes sure that
A couple weeks ago, NDQ 91.1/2 went to our publishing partner at the University of Nebraska Press. This means that it’s only a matter of time before the issue is winging its way to subscribers and authors (and through the tubes of the internet). To whet your appetite, here’s the
Next week is the annual festival of writers and readers on our home campus at the University of North Dakota. This is the 55th year running. The conference features readings, workshops, films, and conversations between the authors. It’s pretty spectacular. If you’re in the region, it is well worth the
For the last few years, NDQ has been collaborating with the University of North Dakota’s English Department’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing program. A group of students from that practicum work together to organize each issue of NDQ. Since issue 91.1/2 is almost ready to go to our publishing partners at
More poetry from NDQ 90.3/4! I know it’s cliche to post love poetry around Valentine’s Day, and it would be even worse to reduce Roseline Mgbodichinma’s poem ‘A galaxy of entropies” to the tired genre of love poetry. It is much more than that, of course, and offers a
I have a soft spot for poetry, art, and music that creates a sense of motion through a landscape. I attribute this interest to too many hours looking out the bus window on my trips home from school as a kid or my more recent work as a landscape archaeology.
As readers of NDQ almost certainly know, N. Scott Momaday passed away this week. Obituaries and tributes are appearing in the usual suspects: New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, and ICT. He was a giant of American letters and a pathbreaker for Native Americans as the first Native American author
We’re excited to continue to share some work from the latest issue of NDQ. Molly Weisgau’s story “Little Fingers” from NDQ 90.3/4 invites you into the unsettling world of traumatic memories suffused with displacements and pain. It’s a haunting story that exemplifies the pressure that short fiction can exert on
The beauty of good short fiction comes through even when it’s bad. Or something like that. Max Blue’s story from NDQ 90.3/4, “How to Write Good or the Bad Story Ever” is a funny and awkward but somehow also touching piece of short fiction that embodies the best (and also
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