Writers In Print
Have favorite writers? We’ll let you know where else they’re being published.
Chicago Quarterly Review Books to release My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa
“Your Losses Travel With You”
Review from Pakistaniaat Syed Afzal Haider’s cosmopolitan Bildungsroman To Be With Her/Reviewed by Hillary Stringer, Patikstaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Vol. 3, No. 3
“Someone I’d like You to Meet” by CQR editor Elizabeth McKenzie in the Atlantic magazine’s Fiction 2011 special issue
CQR editor Elizabeth McKenzie’s short story “Someone I’d like You to Meet” was featured in The Atlantic Magazine’s Fiction 2011 special issue: it was one of only nine short stories in a special issue that traditionally showcases the best of contemporary fiction. McKenzie is also the author of Stop That Girl, a collection of short stories that was published in 2006 by Random House, and also MacGregor tells the World: A Novel, Random House 2007. McKenzie has received a Pushcart Prize for her short fiction, and had a story chosen by Dave Eggers for his anthology Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is currently senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review. We’re looking forward to her next novel!
Check out CQR editor Jeanie Chung’s latest publications
Jeanie has an essay in the forthcoming issue of Drunken Boat and also in the latest upstreet magazine. Her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Timber Creek Review, Madison Review, Hunger Mountain, and upstreet, as well as the anthology The Way We Knew It. A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College, she was formerly a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her journalism and interviews have also appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. A fictionalized version of “Cuts and Folds” was selected for The Parlor’s Emerging Writers Festival in 2009.
Editor Syed Afzal Haider in Taylor Trust Poetry & Prose
Check out CQR editor Syed Afzal Haider’s short story, ‘Colors Of A Day,’ in Taylor Trust Magazine.
Editor Dan Portincaso published in Pank Magazine
CQR editor Dan Portincaso has had a story titled ‘7 pm: Room 71 – Melissa’ published in Pank Magazine.
Writer Carrie Messenger: 2 new stories
Carrie Messenger (2008 issue) has new stories coming out in Redivider and Crab Orchard Review.
Camillo Sbarbaro translations by Natalia Nebel and Paola Morgavi
Free Verse has published a special supplement of 14 poems by Camillo Sbarbaro (1914) translated by editor Natalia Nebel and writer Paola Morgavi. Click here to access.
Jody Azzouni’s poetry collection
Jody Azzouni’s poetry collection The Lust for Blueprints (Poet’s Press) is available at Amazon.com or through his website. Click here to access his website, which is packed with great stories and poetry.
Paul Luikart: finalist in NPR’s 3 minute fiction contest
You can still find his story, “Something to Crow About” on the NPR site. Paul also has a story in the Santa Fe Writing Project and another, called “Another Shot at the Pennant” up at Boston Literary Magazine.
Natalia Nebel and Paola Morgavi in Burnside Review
Writer Paola Morgavi and CQR editor Natalia Nebel’s translation of Italian poet Camillo Sbarbaro’s collection Pianissimo (1914) can be found in the current issue of Burnside Review. Click here to access.
Athena, a novel by William Eisner
William Eisner’s latest novel Athena, set in the 1960’s, is a taut, suspenseful story driven by one man’s unrelenting pursuit to build the world’s most powerful jet fight.