StoryQuarterly is a major American literary journal based in Illinois. Works originally published in StoryQuarterly have been subsequently selected for inclusion in The Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize: The Best of the Small Presses, and The Best American Non-Required Reading. The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American Literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry short fiction essays or literary whatnot" published
Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Denis Johnson, Jacob M. Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton Massachusetts) is an American Writer of Fiction and Poetry Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American Novelist and Short story writer For Denis Johnson from London who invented the bicycle forerunner called "hoy horse" see Denis Johnson (inventor. Appel, and Dan O'Brien. Daniel ("Dan" Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966 in Portland Oregon) is a former American decathlete.
StoryQuarterly was recently acquired by the online magazine Narrative, edited by longtime GQ fiction editor Tom Jenks.