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Announcing the release of the Spring 2026 issue of the CQR!

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

Cover by Janet Fine

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Pushcart Prize and Special Mentions!

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”!!

Announcing the Fall 2025 Issue of the CQR!

Featuring work by: Jacob M. Appel * Bruce Benway * Nandini Bhattacharya * Sara Blazevic * Paula C. Brancato * Aaron Brown * Beverly Burch * Rick Bursky * Alyse Carlson * Allisa Cherry * Hee-June Choi * Taylor Cook * Deborrah Corr * Craig Cotter * Alida Dean * Derin Emre * Valerie Hegarty * Soo J. Hong * Malina Infante * Shelby Kinney-Lang * Chuck Kramer * Lou Mathews * Tamara MC * Josh McColough * Benjamin Niespodziany * Gary Pedler * Ben Perkins * Stephen Pett * Matt Poindexter * Kimberly Ann Priest * John Robinson * David Sapp * Barbara Saunier * June Sawyers * Marie Scarles * Tim Stobierski * Alison Stone * Jennifer A Sutherland * Jeffery Allen Tobin * Umberto Tosi * Max Ufberg * Alvaro Villanueva * Thomas Wawzenek * Rogers Worthington * Ken Wuetcher * Ryuji (Rudy) Yamaguchi * Guava Yun * Olga Zilberbourg

Announcing the Spring 2025 issue of the CQR!

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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CQR at The Book Stall

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 30th Anniversary Reading and Celebration

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