Submissions
We now have online submissions!
Due to the overwhelming volume of submissions for volume 13, we will only be accepting submissions online for the next reading period (vol. 14). (One exception: prose contest submissions may be sent by mail since the check must also be mailed.) Also, please note new dates for our reading period, Oct. 15-April 15.
You may find our online submission service at quarteraftereight.org/subtracker/. Please email editor@quarteraftereight.org with any difficulties.
QAE Mission and Aesthetic
Quarter After Eight is an annual journal dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the prose form across distinctions of genre. Confronting both the margins and middle, QAE believes that much of today’s most significant writing is dedicated to blurring the traditional lines of prose and verse. QAE is committed to publishing fiction, prose-poetry, sudden-fiction, creative and critical nonfiction, interviews, reviews, letters, memoirs, translations, dramas, and less defined forms of prose from new and established writers.
Our primary criterion in evaluating a submission is its innovation of approach to the prose form. We do not publish traditional lined poetry, but we welcome work that challenges the boundary of prose and poetry. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please indicate that you are submitting elsewhere in the "comments" field of the submission manager.
Formatting
- Please send no more than 3 short works or 1 longer work.
- Submit pieces individually; do no include three selections in one word document.
- Double space prose longer than a page
- Make sure your name and email address appear on every page of your submission(s).
- Find more directions about submitting on the submission manager homepage.
Reading Period
- Reading period is October 15 to April 15
- Response time is usually 4 to 6 months
Publication Particulars
- Electronic copy of manuscript requested upon acceptance
- 2 contributor's copies upon publication
- First North American rights revert to author upon publication
We encourage writers considering submitting to purchase the current volume. The cost is $10, postpaid. Recent contributors include Sandra Alcosser, Joan Connor, Richard Kostelanetz, Colette Inez, Amy England, Virgil Suarez, and Maureen Seaton.
Submissions By Mail
Except for prose contest submissions, QAE no longer takes submissions by mail.
QAE does not take submissions from Ohio University students.