How to Enter Online

You can now enter CQ online for Students or for Professionals. Below are instructions on how to prepare your entries for upload. If you prefer to pay by check or to mail your entries to us, please download our call for entries form.

Entry Fees

Single entries

  • One entry = $10
  • There is no maximum number of entries

Series Entry Fee (Three to five images with a similar theme including books and magazines. Stationery systems are a single entry)

  • Each piece within a series is $10.
  • For example, if you submit a cover and 3 spreads of a magazine, that series would be $40.

Please note your credit card payment will be processed by 3x3 Magazine.

Eligible Work

All entries must have been completed during the last twelve months. Submission of entries acknowledges the right of Creative Quarterly to use them for publication, exhibition and promotion.

Categories: Fine Arts (FA), Graphic Design (GD), Illustration (IL) and Photography (PH)

Create Your Files

Each entry must be submitted as:

  • 300 dpi, RGB, Jpeg
  • Vertical images must be 8" wide.
  • Horizontal images must be 10" wide.

Proceed to upload your Student entries or upload your Professional entries.

Notification of Selection

Winners will be notified by email and listed online after judging is completed. Judging takes six to eight weeks.