Featuring work by: Genevieve Abravanel * Alison Braid-Fernandez * Christine Byrne * Roger Camp * William Virgil Davis * Sarah Dunphy-Lelii * Dawn Dupler * Brian Ellis * Julie Esther Fisher * Patty A. Gray * Michael Hannon * Charles Hood * Phillip Jones * Mike Yunxuan Li * Jason Mazzotta * Andrea McLaughlin * Michael Milburn * Shawn Andrew Mitchell * Henry Murger * Christopher Nelson * Dion O’Reilly * Hearne Pardee * Matthew Parris * Micah Perks * Angela Pneuman * Bryan D. Price * Michael Pulley * Tim Raymond * Tyler Rigdon * Zack Rogow * Laura Rosenthal * R. Craig Sautter * Nina Schuyler * Hugo S. Simões * Merrie Snell * Marjorie Stelmach * Renate Stendhal * Maria Surricchio * Laurie Tobenkin * Jessica Treadway * David L. Updike * Jeffrey Utzinger * Siamak Vossoughi * Sara Wallace * Yanan Wang * Ian Randall Wilson * Aleks Zywicki

COVER: “WINDOW” by Hearne Pardee

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Congratulations to our contributors George Cotkin and David Susman, whose essays have been named Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays 2024!

• George Cotkin, for “Sisyphean Variations” in CQR #38
• David Susman, for “Insult and Injury” in CQR #38

Colton Huelle has received Special Mention in the 2025 Pushcart Prize Anthology for his story “The Trooper”–published in CQR #37.

David Susman has received Special Mention in the 2025 Pushcart Prize Anthology for his essay “Insult and Injury”–published in CQR #38.

Congratulations to both!

Christina Drill interviews editors S. Afzal Haider and Elizabeth McKenzie

The Chicago Quarterly Review celebrated its 30th anniversary and other recent issues as well as the release of founder S. Afzal Haider’s new  collection The Dying Sun and Other Stories at The Book Stall on September 29.

from left: Gary Houston, Faisal Mohyuddin, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Signe Ratcliff, S. Afzal Haider, Dipika Mukherjee, Chuck Kramer

The CQR celebrated 30 years in print on September 5, 2024 at City Lit Theatre in Chicago.

Back row, left to right: Miles Harvey, LeVan D. Hawkins, Suzanne Scanlon, Mary Wisniewski, Gary Houston, Richard Huffman, Charles Kenney, John Blades

Front row, left to right: Signe Ratcliff, Aarti Monteiro, Olga Domchenko, Elizabeth McKenzie, S. Afzal Haider, Jeff Wolf, Ben Bird, Chuck Kramer

With cover art by Liz Radford and featuring work by: Dawn Abeita * Bipin Aurora * Scott Brennan * Sinclair Cabocel * Don Clermont * Lisa Compo * Johnny Cordova * Alida Dean * Kenneth Gangemi * Lee Matthew Goldberg * Eleanor Goodman * Ryan Kristopher Jory * Mickie Kennedy * Davíd Lavie * Terri Lewis * Oksana Maksymchuk * Juan Martinez * Michael Mattes * Dipika Mukherjee * James Stuart Nolte * Matt Poindexter * Jessica Bell Rizzolo * David Ryan * Kim Samek * Kirstin Scott * Sarah Seybold * Murzban F. Shroff * Nicole Simonsen * Christine Sneed * Jake Spears * Marcus Spiegel * Glenn Taylor * Raymond Thompson Jr. * Lauren K. Watel * Ian Randall Wilson * Tanya Žilinskas

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Featuring work by: Melissa Andrés * Justin Aoba * Harold Bordwell * Anna Braverman * Finn Briscoe * Paola Bruni * Marisa Campbell * Xochiquetzal Candelaria * Maria Castell-Greene * Morris Collins * George Cotkin * Kwame Dawes * Shawna Ervin * Paul Farwell * Gustavo Pérez Firmat * Rebecca Fox * Sekyo Nam Haines * Morgan Hamill * Miles Harvey * Dennis Hauck * Cho Ji Hoon * Gloria L. Huang * Jesse Lee Kercheval * Luke Johnson * David Philip Mullins * Sarah Nance * Natalia Nebel * David Nikityn * Lauren Page * Hearne Pardee * Roy Parvin * Michael Pearce * Jessica Powell * E.I. Pruitt * John Robinson * Ed Ruzicka * Daniel Saalfeld * Neal Snidow * David Susman * Nathan Winer * Reggie Scott Young * Annie Zhu

Cover art: “Waterville” by Hearne Pardee

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Featuring work by: Greg Ames * rose auslander * Drew Calvert * Harrison Copp * Mark Crimmins * Dante Di Stefano * Michael Downs * Patrick Dundon * Josh Emmons * Philip Eskenazi * Kirk Glaser * Justin Groppuso-Cook * Colton Huelle * Richard Huffman * Richard Jacobs * Stephen Earley Jordan II * Markus Kirschner * Amy Marques * Jessie Ren Marshall * Paddy McCabe * Eireene Nealand * Pablo Neruda * Kristy Nielsen * Jack Norman * Darren Oberto * Marcus Ong Kah Ho * Andrew Porter * Melissa Pritchard * Orel Protopopescu * Jessica Nirvana Ram * Tim Raymond * William V. Roebuck * Malcolm Rothman * Varun U. Shetty * Paul Skenazy * Wally Swist * Ernie Wang * Thomas Wawzenek * Maud Welch

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Come visit us at Booth #232!

We’re thrilled for our contributors Rita Dove and LeVan D. Hawkins, who have been awarded Pushcart Prizes for their work in CQR #33, and for A.D. Nauman (CQR #34) and David Nicholson (CQR #33), given Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology!

Congratulations to our contributors who’ve been recognized this year in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays!

—Cliff Thompson, whose essay “Ming Yang Fu, Or Seeking Words at Age Thirteen” from CQR #33 has been named a Notable Essay of the year by Best American Essays 2022!

—Jerald Walker, whose essay “An American Right” from CQR #33 has been named a Notable Essay of the year by Best American Essays 2022!

—Rachel Eliza Griffith, whose story “Miracle River” appeared in CQR #33 and has been selected as a Distinguished Story of the year in Best American Short Stories 2022!

—A.D. Nauman, whose story “The Cat” from CQR #34 has been named a Distinguished Story of the year in Best American Short Stories 2022!