VIDA Stats, MacQ-26:

* 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 38 bios are included above, this issue contains works by a total of 48 contributors: 19 women (40%) and 29 men (60%).

Of the 48 contributors, 21 (44%) are “new to MacQ.” Of the 21 “new” contributors, 8 are women (39%) and 13 are men (61%).

[The ten contributors whose bios do not appear in MacQ-26 are visual artists, and except for Van Gogh and Whistler all are “new to MacQ”: Kevin Beary (contemporary), Edward Mason Eggleston (1882–1941), Leon Lundmark (1875–1942), Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Pierre Pellegrini (born 1968), Thomas Sgouros (1927–2012), William Thon (1906–2000), Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), and Milford Zornes (1908–2008).]

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 26 issues of MacQ, the number of women authors and artists published therein averages 52.6 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