Midwestern Gothic: Winter 2017

by Midwestern Gothic

The Winter 2017 issue features fiction from Cailin Ashbaugh, Tyler Barton, Dan Giloth, Steph Kilen, Elsa Nekola, Amy C. Rea, Ron Rindo, Christina Robertson, Kelsey Ronan, Rebecca Saltzman, Ryan Schnurr, and Mary Kate Varnau. Poetry from Jason Arment, Kimberly Grabowski Strayer, Jan Harrington, Steve Henn, Anita Olivia Koester, Catherine Kyle, Stephen S. Mills, Norman Minnick, Elizabeth O’Brien, Iliana Rocha, James Tolan, Brew Wilson-Battles, Orey Wilson Dayne, and Robert Young. Plus nonfiction from Adam Carter, Jessica Kashiwabara, Joanne Nelson, Zhanna Slor, Kaj Tanaka. Midwestern Gothic is a bi-annual literary journal and independent book publisher shining a spotlight on the Midwest, based in Chicago, Illinois.

218 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2017

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.

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Reviews

[A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

MG is always good. The content felt a little less depressing than usual, which was nice. Also, the piece about Ryan White was good--it is always a surprising reminder that we talked about Ryan White at school all the time not because he was so famous, but because he was from the next county over.

Anyway, I <3 MG.

[Zoe Beausoleil · Rating 5 out of 5]

They haven't released an issue in a few years, but this is my absolute favorite publication. Every story is unique, and although the setting is inferred throughout them all (somewhere in the midwest), the stories are wildly unpredictable. Love this shit.