Given that MacQ’s publisher, Clare MacQueen, is a one-person production army, dates in the future are approximate and subject to change.
2025 (Year 6):
| MacQ-31 will launch on: |
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1 January 2026 |
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2025 Reading Period #3
(for Issue 31): |
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1–7 November (Stage 2) and
21–27 October (Stage 1) |
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| MacQ-30 will launch in: |
|
early September |
| MacQ-29 will launch in: |
|
early August |
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2025 Reading Period #2
(for two issues, 29 + 30): |
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21–27 June (Stage 3)
11–17 June (Stage 2)
1–7 June (Stage 1) |
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| MacQ-28 launched on: |
|
21 April |
| MacQ-27 launched on: |
|
23 March |
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2025 Reading Period #1
(for two issues, 27 + 28): |
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11–17 February (Stage 2) and
1–7 February (Stage 1) |
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| MacQ-26 launched on: |
|
1 January 2025 |
2024 (Year 5):
2024 Reading Period #3
(for Issue 26): |
|
21–27 November (Stage 2) and
10–16 November (Stage 1) |
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| MacQ-25 launched on: |
|
22 September 2024 |
| MacQ-24 launched on: |
|
30 August 2024 |
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2024 Reading Period #2
(for two issues, 24 + 25): |
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24–30 July (Stage 3)
7–13 July (Stage 2)
23–29 June (Stage 1) |
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| MacQ-23 launched on: |
|
28 April 2024 |
2024 Reading Period #1
(for one issue, 23): |
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20–26 March (7 days) |
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| MacQ-22 launched on: |
|
4 February 2024 |
| MacQ-21 launched on: |
|
1 January 2024 |
2023 (Year 4):
2023 Reading Period #4,
Issue 22 Special Call:
(micro + flash fictions,
prose poems, haibun) |
|
7–21 December (15 days) |
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2023 Reading Period #3
(for two issues, 21 + 22): |
|
7–16 November (10 days) |
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| MacQ-20 launched on: |
|
15 September |
| MacQ-19 launched on: |
|
15 August |
2023 Reading Period #2
(for two issues, 19 + 20): |
|
7–16 July (10 days) |
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| MacQ-18 launched on: |
|
29 April |
2023 Reading Period #1
(for one issue, 18): |
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20–26 March (7 days) |
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| MacQ-17 launched on: |
|
29 January |
| MacQ-16 launched on: |
|
1 January 2023 |
2022 (Year 3):
2022 Reading Period #8
(for two issues, 16 + 17): |
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7–20 November (14 days) |
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| MacQ-15 launched on: |
|
18 September |
| Reading period #7 for Ekphrastic Challenge: |
|
23 July–21 August (30 days) |
| Reading periods 5 & 6, Solicited Manuscripts: |
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14–21 August [8 days: prose poems & flash fictions]; and 1–7 August [7 days: haibun] |
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| MacQ-14 launched on: |
|
2 August |
| Reading period #4: |
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21–30 June 2022 (10 days) |
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| MacQ-13 launched on: |
|
22 May |
| Reading period #3: |
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April [Solicited Mss. only] |
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| MacQ-12 launched on: |
|
10 March |
| Reading periods 1 & 2: |
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1–7 February [general submissions];
10–23 February [Cheribun Challenge] |
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| MacQ-11 launched on: |
|
1 January 2022 |
2021 (Year 2):
| MacQ-11 reading periods: |
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13–19 November [general submissions];
22 Nov. thru 5 Dec. [Triple-Q Challenge] |
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| MacQ-10 launched on: |
|
7 October |
| MacQ-10 reading period: |
|
5–15 September |
| |
| MacQ-9 launched on: |
|
15 August |
| MacQ-9 reading period: |
|
1–14 July |
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| MacQ-8 launched on: |
|
12 June |
| MacQ-8 reading period: |
|
1–15 May |
| |
| MacQ-7 launched on: |
|
24 March |
| MacQ-7 reading period: |
|
1–21 February |
| |
| MacQ-6 launched on: |
|
1 January 2021 |
2020 (Year 1):
| MacQ-6 reading period: |
|
28 November–15 December |
| |
| MacQ-5 launched on: |
|
11 October |
| MacQ-5 reading periods: |
|
1–15 Sept. [general submissions];
16–30 Sept. [RESQ Challenge] |
| |
| MacQ-4 launched on: |
|
27 July |
| MacQ-4 reading period: |
|
16–30 June |
| |
| MacQ-3 launched on: |
|
14 May |
| MacQ-3 reading period: |
|
10–25 April |
| |
| MacQ-2 launched on: |
|
15 March |
| MacQ-2 reading period: |
|
1–14 February |
| |
| MacQ-1 launched on: |
|
1 January 2020 |
