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

Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson's stories have been published in many fine venues besides this one, including Storyglossia, THE2NDHAND, Wheelhouse and RAGAD. He also has three novels-in-progress that may or may not ever be finished, and many more which are still floating around in the dusty corners of his imagination. He lives in Joliet, Illinois, with his lovely wife Julie, charming daughter Madeleine and two literature-averse cats.