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3QR to 3QTrue Print Anthology
Welcome to 3QR! We’re preparing to publish our final issue, a print anthology, 3QTrue, highlighting nearly 10 years of The Three Quarter Review. Now due out in 2023. Our submissions are now closed. In the pandemic Before Times, we considered a select number of new poetry or prose to wrap up our literary experiment in three-quarter true storytelling. […]
COYOTES by Bill Burtis
Credit: wikimedia commons On a cold, crackling full-moon-lit night I clamp on skis and glide out across the solid reservoir before tracking up the pure moon-pearl slope of snowfield toward the dark curtain of trees and stop just short of the woods. Warmed in the climb, I survey the pale landscape the few intrepid stars […]
WHEN I FINALLY SEE WHAT NINETEEN LOOKS LIKE by Brenda Nicholas
Photo credit: wikimedia commons 1 There are certain sounds I’ll never forget, like the depressed shuffle of my mom’s slippers on wood floors and words like “I told your dad you might not be his when you were two years old. We were driving in the car.” I was home from college, eager to see […]
Missing Stephen
Renowned novelist Stephen Dixon, who contributed to this journal, has died. I can’t tell you how much he will be missed. He’s why we are here. “Stephen Dixon, a prolific novelist and short-story writer whose humorous, freewheeling fiction traced the shocks and jolts of romance, aging and everyday life, in an experimental but plain-spoken style […]
College Admissions Scandal As 1930s Screwball Comedy
By J. Cavanaugh Simpson — Depression-era screwball comedies skewered the shallow upper classes with satirical glee. Similar plot lines—updated and adjusted for inflation—offer timely social sabotage of college and class in the unfolding aftermath of the College Admissions Scandal. A few storylines that are, criminally, mostly three-quarters true: Charming conman Rich Slinger—mastermind of madcap slacker student admission scheme—secretly records entitled […]
3QR News
Stay tuned for the print issue of 3QR: The Three Quarter Review, expected pub date now 2023. You’ll soon, hopefully, be able to hold it in your hands, and turn actual pages. Dedicated to 3QR inaugural author Stephen Dixon. For other archival news on our creative three-quarter true storytelling project — a mantle we hope will be picked […]
Staff
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson, Founding Editor, 3QR: 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 (Caldwell Publishing). Her literary essays have appeared in various journals, including The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Connecticut Review, Urbanite, and Utne Reader, as […]
3QR DANIEL DEFOE CONTEST WINNERS / AUTHOR BIOS 2017-18
Our three winners of the 3QR Daniel Defoe Contest tapped into Defoe‘s eclectic heritage: political activist and economist; pioneer of the English novel; pamphleteer and political advisor; down-and-out debtor; modern myth-maker; and overall social rebel and rogue. These 21st century writers’ takes on Defoe’s life (1660-1731) are eclectic as well. See featured images and slide at the […]
ON MOVING ON: A Tribute to Capital Gazette journalists
By Ann Costantino Several days ago marked the memorial service for John McNamara, the last of the five Capital Gazette newspaper employees killed about two weeks ago by Jarrod Ramos, whose misdirected rage was aimed squarely at unsuspecting employees who had nothing at all to do with his multi-year resentment toward the paper. The Gazette […]
The Godfather Speaks
I first met author Lee Gutkind at the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers’ Conference at Goucher College when I was a grad student in the mid-1990s. The conference brought together some of the greatest practitioners of a literary form of nonfiction breaking new ground: creative nonfiction. Featured were authors Tracy Kidder. Susan Orlean. Gay Talese. Mary […]
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