VIDA Stats, MacQ-24:

* The asterisks above indicate contributors who are “new to MacQ”—that is, their works do not appear previously in MacQueen’s Quinterly nor in KYSO Flash (MacQ’s predecessor).

Although links to 54 bios are included above, this issue contains works by a total of 58 contributors: 30 women (~52%) and 28 men (~48%).

Of the 58 contributors, 26 (or ~45%) are “new to MacQ.” Of the 26 “new” contributors, 16 are women (61.5%) and 10 are men (38.5%).

(The four contributors whose bios are not included in this issue are also new to MacQ and included in the total number of 25 above: contemporary photographer Per Harald Olsen, and the artists Princess Marie Christine d’Orléans [1813-1839], John Singer Sargent [1856-1925], and Egon Schiele [1890-1918]. Their works in this issue can be accessed through MacQ’s Index of Contributors.)

With MacQ, as it was with KYSO Flash, my goal as publisher is to balance the ratio of women to men authors and artists—which has happened only twice: Issue 14 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.

Across the first 20 issues of MacQ, the number of women authors and artists published therein averages 52.1 percent, ranging from a low of 40% in Issue 1 (January 2020) 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