''North Dakota Quarterly'' (''NDQ'') is a literary journal published

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by the

University of North Dakota The University of North Dakota (also known as UND or North Dakota) is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of N ...

. ''NDQ'' publishes poetry, fiction, interviews, and literary non-fiction. It was first published in 1911 as a vehicle for faculty papers. After a hiatus during the depression, ''NDQ'' began publishing again with a broader focus that gradually came to include stories and poems. Preeminent Hemingway scholar Robert W. Lewis edited ''NDQ'' from 1982 until his death in 2013 and published about a dozen special editions focused on Hemingway, as well as a number of special editions focused on China,

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, and Native American issues and literature. In 2019, ''NDQ'' began being published by the

University of Nebraska Press The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the Unive ...

Contributors

Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich ( ; born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indian ...

, poet, novelist, short story writer, winner of the

National Book Award for Fiction The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987 the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, but ...

for '' The Round House'' in 2012. * Kathleen Norris, author of ''Dakota: A Spiritual Geography'' and a number of other non-fiction books. *

Ted Kooser Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selec ...

, former U.S. Poet Laureate * N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner * Jacob M. Appel, short story writer *

Larry Woiwode Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until his death. His work appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Esquire'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', '' ...

, North Dakota Poet Laureate, novelist and short story writer *

Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1 ...

, former United States President, published original poetry in 1992 * Thomas McGrath, celebrated American poet from North Dakota *

James Sallis James Sallis (born December 21, 1944) is an American crime writer who wrote a series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin set in New Orleans, and the 2005 novel '' Drive'', which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same nam ...

, novelist, poet, and short story writer.

Honors and awards

* Pushcart Prize in 2008 "Overwintering in Fairbanks," an essay by Erica Keiko Iseri that first appeared in ''NDQ'' ESSAY PUBLISHED IN N.D. QUARTERLY CHOSEN FOR 2008 PUSHCART PRIZE, Grand Forks Herald, Feb. 2, 2008 *

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

in 1993 for ''The Killing Blanket'' by Rilla Askew *

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals The Council of Editors of Learned Journals emerged from a series of informal gatherings of editors at the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). The gatherings were concerned with the same issues that are the subject matter of the organizatio ...

(CELJ), runner up in 1993 for best special issue, ''Out of Yugoslavia''

References

External links

''North Dakota Quarterly'' website
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Contributors

Honors and awards

See also

References

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