Chicago Review is a literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and special features in double issues. Three stories published in Chicago Review have won the O. Henry Award.
“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.
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation.
This special Australian edition of the Chicago Quarterly Review, guest edited by Paul Williams and Shelley Davidow, presents a mosaic of diverse and exceptional writers’ voices from a multi-faceted multicultural land.
The Chicago Quarterly Review celebrates the recognition of four of our contributors and their pieces in Best American Essays 2020 as Notable Essays of the year. Congratulations to Louise LeBourgeois for her essay “Liquid Boundary,” Gregg Murray for “Big Twist,” Malcolm Rothman for “Family Photos” and Robert Kerwin for “In the Cold”!
The Chicago Quarterly Review is a nonprofit, independent literary journal that has published short stories, poems, translations, and essays by both emerging and established writers since 1994. This edition features writers Mona Lisa Saloy, Le Van D. Hawkins, Sharyn Skeeter, and Tsehaye Hebert.
Take a guided tour of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, and many other cities. We asked authors, booksellers, publishers, editors, and others to share the places they go to connect with writers of the past, to the bars and cafés where today’s authors give readings, and to those sites that are most inspiring for writing.
The Chicago Quarterly Review is a nonprofit, independent literary journal publishing the finest short stories, poems, translations and essays by both emerging and established writers.
Our open submissions period for poetry close on June 15 and reopen on October 1 of each year. Nonfiction + Reviews Chicago Review publishes a variety of genres of nonfiction, both online and in print. We prefer to receive emailed pitches, though we will also review drafts submitted through our submissions manager.
