Comments on: TriQuarterly to be Shut Down after 45 Years http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/triquarterly-to-be-shut-down-after-45-years fiction matters Tue, 22 May 2012 13:51:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: The Fate of TriQuarterly | Identity Theory http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/triquarterly-to-be-shut-down-after-45-years/comment-page-1#comment-16527 The Fate of TriQuarterly | Identity Theory Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:20:52 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=5097#comment-16527 [...] is disturbing and kind of weird. Here’s the spin from Northwestern University. Celeste Ng reports here. Not all of us are upset that TriQuarterly is shifting from print to online publication. More [...] [...] is disturbing and kind of weird. Here’s the spin from Northwestern University. Celeste Ng reports here. Not all of us are upset that TriQuarterly is shifting from print to online publication. More [...]

]]> By: Anne Stameshkin http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/triquarterly-to-be-shut-down-after-45-years/comment-page-1#comment-2944 Anne Stameshkin Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:37:47 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=5097#comment-2944 The demise of the <em>TriQuarterly Review</em> is upsetting for so many reasons. But what really sticks in my craw is that they are planning to keep the same name for a totally different publication, one produced in a different medium by a different staff who (according to Ian Morris's email) will have vastly different editorial qualifications. Will this new publication be able to draw the same quality of submissions? Will they be able to pay authors for their work? Isn't re-using the old <em>TriQuarterly</em>'s identity some sort of copyright violation? (Ah, but I guess the people who own said copyright are the ones who have made this decision. It's quite a reality check, thinking about who <em>owns</em> a publication and its name.) At the very least, this choice would intentionally mislead both writers interested in submitting work and the journal's readers. I hope the powers-that-be will reconsider and at least give this online student-run mag a new name. And of course I hope they'll consider retaining the <em>TriQuarterly</em>, whether in print or online, and its top-rate, experienced team. I expect that for budgetary, practical, and conservation reasons, we are moving in the eventual direction of housing many quality literary publications online (just look at the marvelous <a href="http://www.thecollagist.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>The Collagist</em></a> and <a href="http://www.wagsrevue.com/index.php" rel="nofollow"><em>Wag's Revue</em></a>!), but whatever its medium, a reputable journal/review still needs to have a professional editorial and production staff. The demise of the TriQuarterly Review is upsetting for so many reasons. But what really sticks in my craw is that they are planning to keep the same name for a totally different publication, one produced in a different medium by a different staff who (according to Ian Morris’s email) will have vastly different editorial qualifications. Will this new publication be able to draw the same quality of submissions? Will they be able to pay authors for their work? Isn’t re-using the old TriQuarterly’s identity some sort of copyright violation? (Ah, but I guess the people who own said copyright are the ones who have made this decision. It’s quite a reality check, thinking about who owns a publication and its name.)

At the very least, this choice would intentionally mislead both writers interested in submitting work and the journal’s readers. I hope the powers-that-be will reconsider and at least give this online student-run mag a new name.

And of course I hope they’ll consider retaining the TriQuarterly, whether in print or online, and its top-rate, experienced team. I expect that for budgetary, practical, and conservation reasons, we are moving in the eventual direction of housing many quality literary publications online (just look at the marvelous The Collagist and Wag’s Revue!), but whatever its medium, a reputable journal/review still needs to have a professional editorial and production staff.

]]> By: Paul Dorell http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/triquarterly-to-be-shut-down-after-45-years/comment-page-1#comment-2943 Paul Dorell Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:58:51 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=5097#comment-2943 I live in Evanston, and Northwestern has always seemed to me to be more interested in producing wealthy alumni than in supporting the arts. Of course, there are hybrids (e.g. Stephen Colbert = art + money), but I doubt many cuts are being made at the Kellogg School of Management. I live in Evanston, and Northwestern has always seemed to me to be more interested in producing wealthy alumni than in supporting the arts. Of course, there are hybrids (e.g. Stephen Colbert = art + money), but I doubt many cuts are being made at the Kellogg School of Management.

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