Fiction

Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is an arts and literary digest cataloging contemporary queer creative culture in Chicago. We hope not only to document existing queer talent but also to inspire new collaborations and explorations. Although much of our coordination uses the internet to connect us with contributors, we desire to encourage new interactions in real life as well. Chicago IRL is a zine made by and for the disenchanted, hopeful, and unemployed revolutionaries, muppets, and magicians to capture the spirit of a new dawn, whatever that means. *

"Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is an arts and literary digest cataloging contemporary queer creative culture in Chicago. We hope not only to document existing queer talent but also to inspire new collaborations and explorations. Although much of our coordination uses the internet to connect us with contributors, we desire to encourage new interactions in real life as well. Chicago IRL is a zine made by and for the disenchanted, hopeful, and unemployed revolutionaries, muppets, and magicians to capture the spirit of a new dawn, whatever that means."

Punch Out Express is a comic zine by David Scheier. It's about a girl named Vera who delivers food and gets in fights in El Garte City.

Insecurities is a poetry comic zine.

Trading Punches With Grandma is a zine by Scott Neil Miles that contains fiction, interviews and art.

"In a society where the death of the printed word is heralded daily, writers will stop at nothing to gain an audience. A Brief History of Authoterrorism is the first definitive text to chronicle a trend that cannot be ignored; see just how far writers and artists will go to promote themselves in a world where laws of decorum no longer apply. This is the fine line between fiction and fact, art and apocalypse…"

The Logan Square Literary Review is a quarterly journal collecting pieces by Logan Square area artists.

Fourty-seven stories written by Chicago high school students.

"Artifice is a nonprofit literary magazine, published twice annually, that aims, by content and context, to showcase creative work aware of its own artifice. The things we like, we like more than we can stand."

Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly in the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago, and supported in part from a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. *