Recent Midwest Stories

Current Midwest Editor

Charles McLeod

Charles McLeod’s fiction has appeared in publications including Alaska Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, CutBank, DOSSIER, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and ZYZZYVA. His debut collection, National Treasures, and debut novel, American Weather, will be published simultaneously by Random House UK/Harvill Secker in 2011. He lives in Macomb, Illinois, and teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University.

He is accepting submissions from current or former Midwesterners through joylandsubmissions@gmail.com

Rose McCann

ROSE McCANN is an instructor of English at Lorain County Community College near Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught classes on world mythology and American fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including The North Coast Review, The Fifth Street Review, The Mad Hatter's Review, The Spillway Review and The Avatar Review. She a bicycling enthusiast and this summer will be embarking on a 250-mile journey across the state of Ohio.