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Featuring work by: Brian Alkire * Adrianne Beer * Hannah Bridges * Roger Camp * Cameron Carr * Tim Corrigan * Debra Dean * Brecht De Poortere * Alexandra Erdekian * Andrew Fague * Annalee Fairley * AJ Francia * Ben Freedman * Stephen Gibson * Peter Gordon * Ian Grody * Charles Grosel * Sharon Hashimoto * Claire Jean Kim * Nadine Koochou * Laura Koritz * Steven R. Kraaijeveld * Don Lago * Kathleen McGookey * Zack Medlin * John Mort * Mario Moussa * Cornelia Nixon * Alix Ohlin * Thuy Phan * Andrew Roe * Carson Sandell * Courtney Miller Santo * Renate Stendhal * Sunÿuna Sun * Alvaro Villanueva * Moeid Irfan Warraich * Ian Randall Wilson

Cover by Alvaro Villanueva

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Featuring work by: Rayne Alarcio * Kayla Min Andrews * Cormac Badger * Dmitry Blizniuk * Courtney Angela Brkic * Danit Brown * Christopher Buckley * Mark Anthony Burke * Jeffrey Colvin * Jodi Cressman * Carol Edelstein * Anna Egeland * Taber Falconer * Janet Fine * Luiza Flynn-Goodlett * Rebecca Foust * Miriam Fried * Sergey Gerasimov * Bill Glose * Priyam Goel * Vincent Guerra * Colton Huelle * Ted Jean * Mimi Kawahara * CC Klamann * Chuck Kramer * Louise Marburg * Sara Marinelli * Anesa Miller * Geoffrey Mohan * Scott John Murray * Ed Park * Joel Peckham * Eileen Pollack * Malcolm Rothman * Brian Satrom * Sonya Schneider * Lynn Schwebach * Claire Scott * SKH Seitz * Hugo S. Simões * Michael Solberg * Sofi Stambo * JoAnne Tillemans * Sofia Viglucci

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Yanan Wang has won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her debut story “A Dog’s Life” –published in CQR #41!

Haider’s collection THE DYING SUN AND OTHER STORIES is the 2025 Book of the Year winner in Indie Fiction from the Chicago Writers Association!

Congratulations to Tommy Moore, whose story “This is You” from CQR #40 is featured in this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology!

And we’re thrilled to announce that FOUR! stories from our pages have received “Special Mention” in this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology. Congratulations to Joy Lanzendorfer for “The Bear”, Lisa Allen Ortiz for “The Vault”, Nicole Simonsen for “The Last of His Kind”, and Christine Sneed for “Scavenging”!!

Congratulations to CQR contributor Delia Pitts! Delia’s story “Swanetta’s Way” from CQR #40 is included in the Distinguished Mystery and Suspense of 2024 in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025!

Congratulations to CQR contributors Terri Lewis and Kim Samek! Terri’s story “Alien” from CQR #39 and Kim’s story “Ex Manic Pixie vs. the Zombies” from CQR #39 are both included in the Distinguished Stories of 2024 in Best American Short Stories 2025!

Congratulations to CQR contributors Charles Kenney and Priscilla Turner! Charles’ essay “In Search of Herzog’s Chicago” and Priscilla’s essay “The Bookman Vanishes”–both from CQR #40–are included in the Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2024 in Best American Essays 2025!

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

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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