Thank you for sharing your work with Qu: a literary magazine. 

Submissions will re-open May 15, 2026!

Payment Upon Publication: $100 per prose piece or visual art, $50 per poem. Contributors will also receive one copy of magazine.

We do not accept previously published work or any work created with AI. International submissions are accepted with a caveat. At this time, we cannot pay contributors who are US citizens living abroad or non-US citizens or send copies of Qu overseas. 

Qu requires First North American Serial Rights to publication (electronic and print). All rights revert back to authors upon publication. We do, however, post online a number of the works we publish and they remain available on the archive section of the website after print publication, and so require Non-Exclusive Electronic Rights. Not all published pieces are posted online.

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE DONE VIA SUBMITTABLE. Manuscripts submitted via email will NOT be considered. 

Qu is a literary magazine, published by the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. The Qu editorial staff is comprised of current students and recent graduates.