In the meantime, we’re currently open for general fiction and nonfiction submissions. Please visit our Submittable page to send us your work.



Second, Issue 57 is now available in print! You can order a print copy here or read the issue online here.

The issue features our 2025 fiction contest finalists, who were chosen by Rachel Heng earlier this week. They are:

Winner: Randolph Thomas for “Voces Immortalis”
First Runner-Up: Anthony Otten for “Image & Likeness”
Second Runner-Up: Catalina Bode for “A House with Cannons”

The new issue also includes work by Nahal Suzanne Jamir, John Salter, Montserrat Andrée Carty, Michael Deagler, Augustine Blaisdell, Jules Wernersbach, and more. The print edition, featuring all the same work, will be available in late summer or fall.

Rachel is the author of two novels, Suicide Club (2018) and The Great Reclamation (2023). The latter won the New American Voices Award and was a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize and the Libby Book Award. It was also named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Best Book of 2023 by TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Amazon Books, Town & Country Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, a Sarah Selects Amazon Book Club and an April 2023 Indie Next pick. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Best New Singaporean Short Stories, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and elsewhere, including here at StoryQuarterly (Issue 52). She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the National Arts Council of Singapore.



Our contest closes March 2, and you can enter through Submittable.

We’re also currently accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions for Issue 57. Our submissions windows are:

Fiction general submissions: Saturday, August 17, 2024 – Sunday, November 24, 2024
Nonfiction general submissions: Saturday, August 17, 2024 – Sunday, December 1, 2024
2025 fiction contest: Saturday, November 30, 2024 – Sunday, March 2, 2025

Please visit our Submittable page to send us your work.

First prize ($500) is awarded to Marie Goyette for “Freefall.” Marie’s fiction has appeared in The North American Review, Feminist Studies, and The Southeast Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where she won the Graduate Prize in Fiction.

First runner-up is Elmo Lum for “Feline.” Elmo’s short stories have appeared in the New England Review, Web Conjunctions, Narrative, and previously in StoryQuarterly (Issue 40).

Our second runner-up is Steve Chang for “Tell Me What I’m Waiting For.” Steve is a Taiwanese writer and educator from the San Gabriel Valley, California. His work appears in Epiphany, Guernica, Grist, J Journal, North American Review, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere.

All of these stories will be published in StoryQuarterly 56, coming soon!

We’re grateful to Deb Olin Unferth for judging. Deb is the author of two short story collections, two novels, a memoir, and a graphic novel. She’s won three Pushcart prizes and a Guggenheim fellowship, teaches at UT-Austin, and runs a creative writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.

Deb is the author of the novels Barn 8 and Vacation, the memoir Revolution, finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, two story collections, and the graphic novel I, Parrot. Her work has appeared in over fifty magazines and journals, including Harper’s, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Capital Fellowship for Innovative Literature, fellowships from the MacDowell, Yaddo, and Ucross residencies.
She’s a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches for the Michener Center, the New Writers’ Project, and she also directs the Pen City Writers, the prison creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.

Our contest closes March 17. You can enter on Submittable.

First prize ($500) is awarded to Joshua Bell for “A Retired Witch.” Joshua is a poet with two published collections, No Planets Strike and Alamo Theory. His fiction has appeared in Bennington Review, Story, Ninth Letter, The Fabulist, and Black Telephone. His first novel, The Houseboat Veronica, is forthcoming next spring.

First runner-up is Ashley Whitaker for “Naked Man, Billboard, Fort Worth.” Ashley’s fiction has appeared in Tin House. She lives in Austin and is at work on a novel.

Our second runner-up is Jessie Li for “Mouth and Heart.” Jessie was born in Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.

All of our prize winners will be published in StoryQuarterly 56, which will be out in late spring/early summer of 2024.

Many thanks to Emma Copley Eisenberg for judging. Emma is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Her debut novel, Housemates, will be out in 2024 and her short story collection, Fat Swim, is forthcoming in 2025.

First: We are currently open for both fiction and nonfiction submissions for Issue 56. We’ll also be running our 2024 fiction contest starting in December. Our submissions windows are: