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TriQuarterly is a Northwestern University literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, video essays, short drama, hybrid work, craft essays, interviews, and book reviews.

Response time info: approximately six months

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Submission calls

fictionLiteraryScience FictionFantasyHorrorMysteryRomanceHumorYoung AdultEligibility requirementsCloses Mar 31, 2027Small reading fee; $12 entry fee for the Reginald Gibbons Editor’s Prize for Short Fiction.Pays: $100 per prose piece.

Open to: Current Northwestern MA/MFA students, program alumni who graduated within the past five years, and program faculty may not submit creative work.

Fall/Winter submissions open in September until a cap of 500 submissions, and spring submissions open in April until a cap of 500. Prose authors may submit one story or up to three flash-fiction pieces in a single document; fiction genres and forms are welcome. The Reginald Gibbons Editor’s Prize for Short Fiction is open January 1–March 31, with a $1,000 prize, a 5,000-word maximum, and a $12 entry fee.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Mar 31, 2027Small reading fee; amount not stated.Pays: $100 per prose piece.

Open to: Current Northwestern MA/MFA students, program alumni who graduated within the past five years, and program faculty may not submit creative work.

Fall/Winter submissions open in September until a cap of 500 submissions, and spring submissions open in April until a cap of 500. Prose authors may submit one story or up to three pieces of flash fiction in a single document.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Mar 31, 2027Small reading fee; amount not stated.Pays: $50 per poem.

Open to: Current Northwestern MA/MFA students, program alumni who graduated within the past five years, and program faculty may not submit creative work.

Fall/Winter submissions open in September until a cap of 500 submissions, and spring submissions open in April until a cap of 500. Poets may submit no more than six poems per cycle in a single document.

otherLiteraryEligibility requirementsSmall reading fee; amount not stated.

Open to: Current Northwestern MA/MFA students, program alumni who graduated within the past five years, and program faculty may not submit creative work.

Video essays and Latest Word pieces—including craft essays, interviews, and book reviews—are accepted year-round.

otherLiteraryScience FictionFantasyHorrorMysteryRomanceHumorYoung AdultOpens Jan 1, 2027

The Reginald Gibbons Editor’s Prize for Short Fiction is open January 1–March 31. Submit one short story up to 5,000 words with a $12 entry fee; all genres and forms of short fiction are welcome. The winner receives $1,000 and publication.

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