The Chicago Quarterly Review is a nonprofit, independent literary journal publishing short stories, poems, translations and essays by both emerging and established writers since 1994. We’re proud to have had work from our pages chosen for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology as we continue our mission to stimulate, entertain, and inspire.
“To mark the 25th anniversary of Chicago Quarterly Review, the fall 2019 issue is appropriately huge, as befits Carl Sandburg’s “stormy, husky, brawling,/ City of the Big Shoulders.” Here, in more than 400 pages, are 32 short stories, 20 poems, a suite of photographs and a dozen works of nonfiction. The result isn’t just a literary quarterly; it’s a tour of the bright and darkling plain we call contemporary American literature.” –Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Current issue
CQR #40, Fall 2024
Cover: “30” by Dave Ladwig
Featuring work by:
Lis Bensley * L. Annette Binder * Ben Bird * John Blades * John Brantingham * Jessica Breheny * Christopher Buckley * Emily Coletta * Alicia DeRollo * Olga Domchenko * celeste doaks * Christina Drill * Patricia Engel * Peter Ferry * Karen Orendurff Fort * Kathleen Founds * Karen Joy Fowler * Syed Afzal Haider * Miles Harvey * LeVan D. Hawkins * Charles Holdefer * Gary Houston * Richard Huffman * Dr. Charles Johnson * Charles Kenney * Chuck Kramer * David Ladwig * Richard M. Lange * Joy Lanzendorfer * Dorianne Laux * Jey Ley * Lou Mathews * Elizabeth McKenzie * Kat Meads * Dan Millar * Joseph Millar * Maya Miller * Faisal Mohyuddin * Aarti Monteiro * Tommy Moore * Pablo Neruda * Lisa Allen Ortiz * Claire Oshetsky * Roy Parvin * Delia Pitts * Vikram Ramakrishnan * Signe Ratcliff * Suzanne Scanlon * Moazzam Sheikh * Paul Skenazy * Eleanor Spiess-Ferris * Sarah Anne Stinnett * Wally Swist * Greg Tebbano * Priscilla Turner * Matthew Wimberley * Mary Wisniewski * Jeffrey Wolf * Cooper Young * Gary Young * Jake Young * James K. Zimmerman