BIG NEWS TWO-PARTER: 



1. Elizabeth McCracken will judge our Issue 58 contest! Contest opens Nov. 27, though we are currently open for both general submissions (fic + NF).



2. Issue 57 is out in print and looking great.


To order a copy or send us your work, find us on Submittable.

Two news items this week.

Our Issue 58 submissions windows are:
Fiction: 8/23 – 11/23/25
Nonfiction: 8/23 – 12/13/25
Fiction contest: 11/27/25 – 3/8/26

Second, congrats to Michelle Huneven (SQ 55) on the launch of BUG HOLLOW!

Here’s a free link to the NYT review: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

Grateful for all our contributors! @stephaniemacias.bsky.social @charlesdotsteph.bsky.social @egtedrowe.bsky.social @juliewbach.bsky.social @augustineblaze.bsky.social @montseandree.bsky.social and everyone else whose @ I could not find!

Issue 57 is live!

www.storyquarterly.org

We love it. We hope you do too.

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Third: The images in these posts are tiny snippets from the new issue’s cover. We think the full image is going to look fantastic, both online and in print!

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SQ 57 is coming out VERY SOON. As in, *tomorrow*. The next time we post, it’ll be with a link to our new online edition.

BIG NEWS TRIFECTA! (1/3)

First: The results are in from Rachel Heng, our Fiction Contest judge.
Winner: Randolph Thomas, “Voces Immortalis.”
First Runner-Up: Anthony Otten, “Image & Likeness.”
Second Runner-Up: Catalina Bode, “A House with Cannons.”

We're excited to share their work in SQ 57!

(Michael may also win the award for best prize acceptance statement.)

CONGRATULATIONS to Michael Deagler (SQ 51, 57) and Garth Greenwell (SQ 49)! On Thursday Michael won the PEN/Hemingway award for his debut, EARLY SOBRIETIES, and last month Garth won the PEN/Faulkner for SMALL RAIN!

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We are thrilled for Jessie Li and Zhenglong Yang, who *both* won the PEN/Dau prize for debut short story! There are 12 winners, so we are wowed that 2 of them were in SQ 56. Their stories will be anthologized by Catapult later this year. In the meantime, you can read them here:

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Congratulations to past (SQ 51) and future (SQ 57) contributor Michael Deagler — EARLY SOBRIETIES made the longlist for the PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel!

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The Assistant to the Managing Editor (pictured) thinks we should extend the contest deadline to March 23, so that’s what we’re doing. You can enter here: storyquarterly.submittable.com/submit

We’re extending our fiction contest deadline to next Sunday! You can enter here:

storyquarterly.submittable.com/submit

We are delighted to announce Rachel Heng as our 2025 fiction contest judge! Her novels include Suicide Club (2018) and The Great Reclamation (2023), which is the winner of the New American Voices Award and a Best Book of 2023 (TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Amazon Books, and Kirkus Reviews).