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The Triad Review
Truth. Beauty. Goodness.
A biannual literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, profiles, and art — crafted with discipline and moral seriousness.
Contents — Issue No. 1
Fiction
The Weight of Ordinary Things
Essay
On the Uses of Silence
Poetry
Three Nocturnes
Nonfiction
A Room Full of Books
Profile
The Painter's Last Years
Art
Selected Works
From the Editor
"We did not start this journal because the world lacks literary magazines. We started it because too few of them hold themselves to an account that goes beyond craft — to the question of what literature is actually for."
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About the Journal
The Triad Review is a biannual literary journal founded in Connecticut. It takes its name from the three ideals that have guided serious literature across every tradition and century.
Truth
Clarity, honesty about human nature, and genuine engagement with reality — not abstraction or ideology.
Beauty
Form, proportion, and disciplined language. Craft is not ornament but the structure through which meaning becomes visible.
Goodness
Moral seriousness and reverence for the dignity of human life — gravity rather than cynicism or sentiment.
We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, profiles, and art. What binds these forms together is not subject matter but the manner in which they are made: with discipline of craft, honesty of vision, and the kind of moral seriousness that treats human experience as something worth getting exactly right.
We are not the product of any single school of thought, political tendency, or aesthetic movement. We belong to the longer conversation — conducted across centuries, in many languages and forms — about what it means to render human life with clarity and care.
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The Triad Review accepts unsolicited submissions during open reading periods via Submittable only. We respond to all submissions within 90 days.
Submission guidelines
FictionUp to 7,500 words
Essays & nonfictionUp to 6,000 words
PoetryUp to 5 poems per submission
ProfilesQuery first by email
Visual artPortfolio via email
Simultaneous submissionsPermitted with notice
Previously publishedNot accepted
Response timeWithin 90 days
Honorarium$100 per accepted piece
PlatformSubmittable only
Reading periods
Spring Issue: September 1 – November 30
Autumn Issue: February 1 – April 30
What we look for
Discipline, honesty, and moral seriousness. Writing that treats its subjects with gravity. We are uninterested in sensationalism or cynicism. We are interested in writing that lasts.
A note on response times
We are a one-person editorial operation. We read everything. Please do not follow up before 90 days have elapsed.
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editors@thetriadreview.com
Connecticut, USA
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