North Dakota Quarterly is proudly edited at the University of North Dakota, and life at NDQ world headquarters is shaped by the rhythm of campus life. We not only enjoy the assistance of UND students, but our editors are faculty either at UND or elsewhere. As a result, Lori D’Angelo’s
Over the past twenty years, New Years Day has become more than simply a celebration of a new beginnings, it is has come to coincide with Public Domain Day! And this year’s Public Domain Day is a particularly notable one because it finally features the arrival of Mickey Mouse (at
This was a good year for North Dakota Quarterly, and as 2023 winds down, it seems like an appropriate time to look back. First and foremost, the NDQ student interns finished the massive archiving project begun a half-decade ago. It is now possible to download and read almost every NDQ
It’s getting toward wintertime here in North Dakotaland, and this past week we enjoyed a couple of frosty mornings. These prompted me to share Matthew Brennan’s contribution to NDQ 90.3/4 which is almost on its way to the printer. It is a lovely reverie on the changing seasons that could
We’re really excited to share the cover of our next issue of NDQ 90.3/4 this week. The last of the proof edits go back to our publishing partners at University of Nebraska Press and, with any luck, it should be winging its way to our subscribers and contributors with the
Bill Caraher | The last few months have been a rocky one for the publishing business. From the unexpected demise of The Gettysburg Review to the roiling discontent about the uncompensated use of published books to feed LLM (large language models), it’s been enough to cause even the most committed
At NDQ, we don’t do much to lobby for particular essays, stories, or poems when it comes to the various literary magazine and small press awards. This is mostly because we think all of our contributions deserve recognition and that the arts is an area where competition may do more
I have a little tradition of making sure that the last work in any issue of NDQ gets a little extra attention here on the website. For NDQ 90.3/4, it’s Nathan Whiting’s poem “To Scale.” Its unconventional formatting shakes up what it means to read a text and to experience
We are excited to announce that issue 90.3/4 has gone to our publishing partners at the University of Nebraska Press for typesetting and printing. To celebrate this milestone in the publication process, find a preliminary table of contents below! Fiction Little FingersMolly Weisgrau That Type of GirlEvelyn Maguire Straight
As longtime readers and supporters of NDQ know, we had our offices in Merrifield Hall on the campus of the University of North Dakota for nearly the entire history of the building. When the Quarterly finally decamped from Merrifield Hall, it was a sad day. In light of our long
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