Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head McSweeney's has won multiple literary awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction, and has had numerous stories appear in The Best American Magazine Writing, the O. Henry Awards anthologies, and The Best American Short Stories Design awards given to the quarterly include the AIGA 50 Books Award, the AIGA 365 Illustration Award, and the Print Design Regional Award This issue includes:
Letters by:
Patrick Cottrell
Amy Berkowitz
Ali Liebegott
Lawrence Weschler
José Vadi
Niela Orr
Claire Vaye Watkins
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Stories by:
Nick Arvin Chris Dennis
Mia McKenzie
RJ Vogt
Iacopo Barison
Etgar Keret
LaToya Watkins
Laura Adamczyk
Armonía Somers
Jeff Wilson and Armin Ozdie
Nadja Spiegelman
Michael Andreasen
Merrill Feitell
Emma Hooper
Ernie Wang
Nathaniel Minton
Hadley Moore
Xavier Navarro Aquino
Laura Adamczyk was born and raised and still lives in Illinois. Her Fiction has won awards from the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation and the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program and has appeared in the Chicago Reader; Guernica, Hobart, Salt Hill, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. FSG Originals will publish her short story collection in 2018.
Michael Andreasen's fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Zoetrope, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. His first book, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover, will be available in February 2018. He lives in Southern California.
Nick Arvin is an engineer living in Denver. His third novel, Mad Boy, will be published by Europa Editions in 2018.