The Chicago Quarterly Review is a nonprofit, independent literary journal publishing short stories, poetry, 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, the PEN/Dau Prize, and the Pushcart Prize 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 #43, Spring 2026
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
