2024 BIENNIAL FICTION ISSUE | VQR

A national journal of literature & discussion

Fall 2024 Cover. Cover art by Johanna Goodman.

Photography by Adam Ekberg

Lawn Chair Propelled. 2017. (ADAM EKBERG, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CLAMP, NEW YORK)

2024 BIENNIAL FICTION ISSUE

A Soviet Jew Walks Into a Bar in Harlem

By Anna Badkhen , Illustration by João Fazenda
Hello From Nowhere

By A. J. Bermudez , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Kirk Creek

By Claudia Sims Black , Illustration by Melanie Lambrick
Do You Hear What I Hear?

By Gabriel Brownstein , Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick
The Pilot

By Nikki Ervice , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Time of the Preacher

By Bret Anthony Johnston , Illustration by João Fazenda
The Informant

By Matthew Lansburgh , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke
Japanese Denim

By Juli Min , Illustration by Melanie Lambrick
The Operation

By Susan Minot , Illustration by Michelle Thompson
Well-Made Flesh

By Koye Oyedeji , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke
Churches

By Derek Palacio , Illustration by João Fazenda
Falconer

By Corinna Vallianatos , Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

Lawn Chair Propelled. 2017. (ADAM EKBERG, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CLAMP, NEW YORK)

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Issue: Fiction 2024 / Volume 100 / #2

Published: August 8, 2024