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Michael Welch

@MBWwelch

EIC at @ChicagoRevBooks. Words published or forthcoming in @IHLR, @TheSchooner, @kenyonreview, and elsewhere. He/him

 Chicago, IL
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Joined August 2012
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Congrats to all the Chicago literary VIPs featured in this year's @newcity Lit 50, including friends @PrintersRowFest founder Bette Cerf Hill, @AWMuseum's @carey_cranston & Allison Sansone, @MBWwelch & @StoryStudio's Jessica Keller & Ananda Lima! #ChicagoIsLit 📚
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Detours make me feel like a stranger... From Construction Season By Michael Welch @MBWwelch greatlakesreview.org/constru… #Fiction for #GreatLakesReview

Construction Season

In the summer I take detours and find my way through the city by chance. I don’t enjoy construction, but I do like the way one turn becomes two, a left becomes a right, and suddenly I’m back again …

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Our spring issue (48) is out now, featuring poetry, stories & essays by so many incredible writers you'll want to read! blreview.org/product/blr-iss… 📖 @robcolgate @NandiniNbhattac @MBWwelch @LaurieSansom @ticphen @KarenZheng20 @BeckyNJames @FionaEnnis3 @Chinaecherem_ @figuraretorica_
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One of the highlights of AWP!
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Look who were spotted at the AWP Conference last week! Associate Fiction Editor Doris W. Cheng got to meet writer Michael Welch, whose story “Soot” is coming out in our fall issue! 😃
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Salamander@Salamander_Mag26 Feb 2025
Expected back from the printer soon: Salamander 59, featuring the excellent writers and artists below! Subscribe now to receive your own issue: salamandermag.org/subscribe/
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The deadline for submissions to the Great Lakes Anthology is January 31! I'm interested in finding: - Work about Indiana (Gary, East Chicago, the dunes, etc) - Work about Erie, PA or NY (Rochester, Buffalo, etc) - All nonfiction in general! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/09…
Call for Submissions: The Great Lakes Anthology - Chicago Review of Books

Call for Submissions: The Great Lakes Anthology - Chicago Review of Books

The following is a call for submissions for The Great Lakes Anthology, edited by our Editor-In-Chief Michael Welch and forthcoming from Belt Publishing. Call for Submissions: The Great Lakes Anthol...

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This is always such a fun and absurd project to try to capture every book coming out of the Chicago writing community If I missed anything from the first half of the year: 1) Sorry! & 2) Message me and I’ll add it!
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Continuing the tradition of starting my reading year with “The Coast of Chicago” to remind myself why I love to write
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So many great releases in 2024 but here are a few of our favorites!
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I just got an acceptance on a story I first wrote in 2019 and made at least 8 large-scale revisions/rewrites on, which proves that being a stubborn Taurus pays off! (I remember being told in a professor that it was beautiful but he had no idea what to do with it, which SAME)
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Just a beautiful night all around. Congratulations everyone and thank you for an incredible year for our community!
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No promises about the quality of the livestream (this is our first time trying it out) but we want as many people as possible to have the chance to watch the show!
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