Book by its Cover: NDQ@90

This week, I’ve been working on the cover for a book that my practicum in writing, editing, and publishing developed last semester (and continues to edit and refine this semester). I wrote about is over at the North Dakota Quarterly blog last week. 

The book consists of ninety sentences written in response to ninety poems, essays, stories and other contributions in past issues of the Quarterly. The students included a citation to the original contributions at the bottom of each page, and in the digital version of the book, the citation will include a live hyperlink to the contribution. This unusual format allowed us to produce an anthology without the complicated process of getting permission from 90 contributors whose work appeared in the Quarterly over six decades. It also celebrates our recently completed free and largely open digital archive of NDQ from which a reader can download any issue from volume 1 (1910) to volume 85 (2018). 

The last step in this book is agreeing on a cover and here’s our first stab at it:

Our plan is to have this available as a free download and a low cost paperback this spring.