Midwestern Gothic: Winter 2018

by Midwestern Gothic, Jeff Pfaller, Robert James Russell (Editor)

The Winter 2018 issue features fiction from Renée Bailey, Rebecca Berg, Kathryn Drew, Carol Dunbar, Hazel Foster, Mattie Ganson, Bruce Johnson, Halee Kirkwood, Chad Koch, Tyler Meese, Carly Anna Miller, Mario Perez, David Shieh, Ian Stoner, and Matt Whelihan. Poetry from Melissa Boston, Collin Callahan, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Greg Emilio, Lisa Favicchia, Ceridwen Hall, Justin Hamm, Gwen Hart, Elizabeth Kerper, Jacob Lindberg, Alysse McCanna, John McCarthy, Ken Meisel, Max Schleicher, M. Drew Williams, and Guinotte Wise. Plus nonfiction from Tamara Dean, Melissa Grunow , Bronson Lemer, Nora Seilheimer, Brooke White, and Jason Zeitler.

Midwestern Gothic is a bi-annual literary journal and independent book publisher shining a spotlight on the Midwest, based in Chicago, Illinois.

285 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 16, 2018

About the author

Midwestern Gothic (ISSN 2159-8827) is a quarterly print literary journal out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, dedicated to featuring work about or inspired by the Midwest, by writers who live or have lived here. Midwestern Gothic aims to collect the very best in Midwestern writing in a way that has never been done before, cataloging the oeuvre of an often-overlooked region of the United States ripe with its own mythologies and tall tales. Don’t be fooled by our name. Gothic fiction is often defined as the inclusion of deeply flawed, often “grotesque” characters in realistic (and, oftentimes unpleasant) settings/situations. At Midwestern Gothic, we take to heart the realistic aspects of Gothic fiction. Not every piece needs to be dark or twisted or full of despair, but we are looking for real life, inspired by the region, good, bad, or ugly. Ultimately, we’re striving to catalog the best of Midwestern writers, and whether it be pieces physically set in the Midwest, or work inspired by your time living here, we want it.

Source: About Midwester Gothic