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

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Samuel Bennett

Samuel Bennett lives and writes in St. Charles, Illinois.