🐟🛸🌖🏔️🔥👹🏚️🏖️🏎️🐋🍇✉️🏜️🖼️🌊🎹🎭🤖🌳⛳️🚙🐻 We are proud to present Issue 58. storyquarterly.org ❤️

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2026 fiction contest, judged by Elizabeth McCracken. Winner: “Honesty," Stanley Delgado First runner-up: “Eden Park,” Brett Berk Second runner-up: “Open Heart,” Mayuri Chandra These stories will be out soon in StoryQuarterly 58!

WOW. Congratulations to Zhenglong Yang, who just won McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award for "The Bluest Ash"! This story will be out in McSweeney's in fall 2026. (While you're waiting, you can read one of his *other* prize-winning stories, "Ride Me Up To Heaven," in SQ 56.)

We are excited for Claire Vaye Watkins, whose new novel YELLOW PINE drops on July 21 and sounds amazing!

Happy Book Launch Week to SQ contributor Melanie Pappadis Faranello! Her debut short fiction collection, EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMETHING, won the Donald L. Jordan prize and was published by Columbus State University Press.

Congratulations to *upcoming* contributor Pathikrit, whose story "Twink Country, Bear Country" won the Elmer Kelton Prize for fiction at Angelo State University! ❤️ This story and 21 more excellent prose works will be out just before Memorial Day weekend at storyquarterly.org.

(1/?) We're on our way to Baltimore for AWP! Copies of our print issue will be available at Booth T1237 in the bookfair. Many SQ contributors and friends will be presenting this year. In this thread, we'll post where to find them. (And feel free to tag us if there's anything we're missing!)

Congratulations to Marie Goyette, who won a Pushcart Prize (as well as the SQ Fiction Prize) for her story "Freefall" from Issue 56!

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...

Issue 57 is live! www.storyquarterly.org We love it. We hope you do too. 💀🌳🛫🥀🍺🏰💸🦷📖🧠⚖🖼💋🍆🌪🌇⛵👚🥬🍄🌅

BIG NEWS item 3 (3) 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!

BIG NEWS item 2 (2/3) 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!

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! pen.org/press-releas...

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: storyquarterly.org

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! pen.org/announcing-t...

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).