VIDA Stats, MacQ-14:

Although links to 64 bios are included above, this issue contains works by a total of 70 contributors: 35 women (50%) and 35 men (50%).

Of the 70 contributors, 23 (or 33%) are “new to MacQ”—that is, their works do not appear previously in MacQueen’s Quinterly nor in KYSO Flash (MacQ’s predecessor).

Of the 23 “new” contributors, 13 are women (~56.5%) and 10 are men (~43.5%).

With MacQ, as it was with KYSO Flash, our publisher’s goal is to balance the ratio of women to men authors and artists whenever possible—which has happened only twice: This issue of MacQ contains works by 70 contributors, exactly half of whom are women. And Issue 7 of KYSO Flash contains works by 32 contributors, 16 of whom are women.

However, in each of 12 issues, from Fall 2014 thru Summer 2019, KYSO Flash consistently published a minimum of 44% women authors and artists. Fifty-nine percent was the highest percentage of women published, which occurred in Issue 11, Spring 2019.

For details about each of those issues, see our Historical VIDA stats.

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts