Clare’s VIDA Stats, MacQ-31:

* The asterisks above indicate contributors who are “new to MacQ”—that is, their works do not appear previously in MacQueen’s Quinterly (30 primary issues: January 2020 thru September 2025; plus three special issues: 10X in 2021, 20X in 2023, and 30X in December 2025) nor in MacQ’s predecessor, KYSO Flash (12 issues: 2014 thru 2019).

Although links to 46 bios are included above, this issue contains works by a total of 47 contributors: 22 women (or ~47%) and 25 men (~53%).

(The contributor whose bio does not appear in this issue is “new to MacQ” Dutch painter Pieter Claesz [1597–1661].)

Of the 47 contributors, seven (or ~15%) are “new to MacQ.” The new contributors include two women and five men.

Overall, new contributors range from a low of 10% in Issue 20X (November 2023) to a high of 58% in Issue 10 (October 2021). Across 34 issues of MacQ (i.e., 1–31, plus 10X, 20X, and 30X), the average of new contributors equals ~28 percent.

With MacQ, as it was with KYSO Flash, I generally aim to balance the ratio of women to men authors and artists. An equal balance has occurred twice in the 12 years I’ve been publishing these journals: Issue 14 of MacQ has works by 70 contributors, 35 of whom are women; and Issue 7 of KYSO Flash has works by 32 contributors, including 16 women.

Across 34 issues of MacQ, the number of women authors and artists published therein averages ~51 percent, ranging from a low of 40% in Issues 1 and 26 (January 2020 and January 2025, respectively) to a high of 62.5% in Issue 12 (March 2022).

(Across 12 issues of KYSO Flash, from Fall 2014 thru Summer 2019, the number of women published therein averages 52 percent, ranging from a low of 44% in Issue 3 [Spring 2015] to a high of 59% in Issue 11 [Spring 2019]. For details about those issues, see Historical VIDA stats.)

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts