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We are excited to announce that issue 11 author Joanna R. Demkiewicz is one of twelve debut writers to receive the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers!
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"Two Hurricanes" by David Starkey
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Meet the Team: Kim Chinquee, Associate Editor
Kim brings years of experience as a lit mag editor, and from her own impressive publication history. She specializes in nonfiction for Midwest Review, with an editorial eye for essays with heart, depth, and vivid prose.
Poem text below -- On her first Sunday in Chicago, her new home, her deathplace, my mother knew the city would swallow her. On Sundays in Batac, when there was nothing to do, she went to three church services with her sisters for fun. Batac, her birthplace, her barrio, "Home of Great Leaders” and the Marcoses’ hometown. The story goes Batac got its name from a man who fell down a hole and yelled, Bataquennac! Pull me up. On her first Sunday in Chicago, her new home, her deathplace, my mother knew the city would swallow her. Slide two -- LG Sebayan is a Chicago-born Filipina. She is a PhD English and creative writing student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where her work was selected by Nicky Beer for the Creative Writing Faculty Legacy Award for Poetry. Her poems are published or forthcoming in CALYX Journal, Pleiades, and elsewhere.
"Batac" by LG Sebayan in our forthcoming issue (12) of Midwest Review.
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🌟Submissions now open for Midwest Review 13!🌟
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LeDeana Mullinix in Midwest Review issue 11
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Pleased to announce our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees!
Proud of the online publication of Midwest Review 11! Check out art, poetry, fiction, and non fiction that examines, interprets, and redefines the full spectrum of life in the Midwest.
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