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Volume 13 | 2011
Chicago Quarterly Review was founded in 1995 to publish both emerging and established writers and, by doing so, encourage them in the development of their craft. By publishing the finest short stories, poems, photographs, and essays we hope to provide readers with work that stimulates, entertains, and inspires.
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“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!
Photography Exhibit by Art Fox
Upcoming Chicago Writing Events: Northwestern University’s Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
Next week Northwestern University’s Annual Writer’s Festival commences. While writing workshops are open only to Northwestern students, author readings as well as a guided discussion by writers Brian Bouldrey, Rachel Webster, and Eula Biss are open to the public.
New to the Festival this year is author David Shields, whose controversial book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto has been heralded by James Wood of The New Yorker as “highly- problematic” and “imprecise” and by Chuck Klosterman as what “might be the most intense, thought- accelerating book of the last 10 years”. Shields is also the author of New York Times Bestseller The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead. In his most recent anthology The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death twenty writers were asked to address the concept of death. Publishers Weekly names the result “a collection of extraordinary essays […].”
The festival begins on Tuesday April 12th at 5:30pm with a reading by Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere. Mun was named Best New Novelist by Chicago Magazine in 2009. All public events take place at the Hilton Orrington of Evanston, Illinois. Shields’ reading on April 14th at 5:30pm will conclude the festival. You can read more about the conference and its authors here.