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Current Issue | 64.3: Summer
2025

Our Summer 2025 issue features poetry by Talvikki Ansel, DeeSoul Carson (winner of the 2025 Laurence Goldstein Prize), Deema K. Shehabi, G.C. Waldrep, and Holly Zhou; fiction by Joy Castro, Perry Janes, Noel Quiñones (winner of the 2025 Jesmyn Ward Prize), and Daniel Tam-Claiborne; nonfiction by Ann Pedone, Mayookh Barua, Matt Young, and many more.

Spring 2025 online folio

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Winter 2025 issue

Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Winter 2025 issue.

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Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962,  is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences.

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