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Current Issue | 63.1
Cozy up with our Winter 2024 issue, featuring the winner of our inaugural James A. Winn Prize in Nonfiction, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, plus more nonfiction by Yvonne Conza, T Bambrick, and J. D. Scrimgeour; fiction by Emma Binder, Nitya Gupta, Sheba Karim, and Spencer Hyde; and poetry by Wendy Chen, Jaime Jaramillo Escobar, Marilyn Hacker, L. A. Johnson, Timothy Liu, and many more!
From MQR Winter 2024
Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, poetry, and visual art.
THE LADIES OF THE CITY
BLOOMINGTON
HYPERDREAM (THE WASP)
WHAT WOULD I DO FOR YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR ME?
Zombie Tag
INHERITANCE
PHILOMELA IN TEXAS
DAPHNE
THE GOETHEANUM
IN A RAIN OF FLOWERS
Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:1 | Winter 2024
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Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review
Four Incidents in the Night
Beyond the Page: Decolonial Reading in How To Read Now
Conversion’s Balance: On Jennifer Grotz’s Still Falling
Discomposition: An Interview with Fred Moten
MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
‘Those Cloudy Infinite Iterations of Self’: An Interview with Olivia Muenz
Language Plays God: A review of Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise by Jennifer Metsker
Identity to Affinity: A Conversation with Torrey Peters
Sun Gets Enemy
On Perspective: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone, the Barbie movie, & Noor Naga’s If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
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About MQR
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. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences.