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3QR IS LIVE!!!! Tweet your friends! Post it on Facebook! Like it! Text about it! Shout it from the rooftops! Spread the Word in whatever mode you like. Our second annual issue is on cyber stands now! Best, JCS. A few notes from authors: “Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe would have been perfect for a 3QR table […]
3QR: FREE TO PASS by Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
LIBERO IL PASSO: FREE TO STEP OR PASS Consider, for a moment, the concept of the Three Quarter True Story: No censorship for writers. No betrayal for readers. No locked doors with mixed messages. When teaching fiction and nonfiction to university students, I’ve found that the question invariably comes up: What is True? We discuss […]
3QR AUTHOR BIOS / 2013
Featured Writer Mary Jo Salter is the author of seven collections of poetry, all published by Alfred A. Knopf, including the 2013 volume Nothing By Design. She is also a lyricist and playwright, and the author of a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home. A former poetry editor of The New Republic, she is a […]
3QR Photo Notes by BRIAN W. SIMPSON …
SNAPPING THE REAL One morning in the spring of 2009, I took a meandering jog in San Francisco. I pounded down the Financial District sidewalks and along the Embarcadero, huffed up Telegraph Hill (okay, I walked up), found my way through North Beach and Chinatown, completing the loop at my hotel. Early in the run, […]
Contact Us & Submissions
The Three Quarter Review: Poetry & Prose > 75 percent True is now accepting submissions for our next annual issue. Prose up to 3,000 words. Up to three poems. Submissions must be at least 75 percent factual. Short pieces welcome. Typed, prose double-spaced. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Be sure to include your email address.We review […]
Staff
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson, Editor, The Three Quarter Review, is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars and Advanced Academic Programs, a nonfiction essayist, and the author of Literature on Deadline (Celumbra/Pacific Isle 2007). Her literary essays have appeared in print or online at the literary journal, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Connecticut Review, Urbanite, and Utne Reader, as […]
3QR Author Bios / 2012
Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the highly praised novel, Drinking Closer to Home. Target stores featured Drinking Closer to Home in their Breakout Author series. Blau’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was selected as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, The New York Post and New York Magazine. […]
