Our winners from our Cities Challenge are now up on the Challenge page.  Make sure to check these out.  We would like to announce that this challenge was our last.  The next issue will reveal a new exciting segment in its place.  Stay tuned to find out what it is!

Issue 15 of Up The Staircase Quarterly also includes 3 new additions to our Book Shelf.  William Taylor Jr.'s collection of short stories, An Age of Monsters, Sam Ledger's poetry collection, Bells for Her, and Wanda Morrow Clevenger's This Same Small Town in Each of Us have been added to our list. To check out how you can order a copy of these three stunning books, check out the Book Shelf page.

We are currently open to submissions for all genres.  Please note that our submission guidelines have changed.  See the Submission Guidelines page to learn more about how to submit for Issue 16. 

And finally, the editors are pleased to ascertain that this latest issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly features the same caliber of great talent that our previous issues have offered. We are delighted to bring these works to print, and we hope that our readers will take pleasure, thought, and appreciation in these exceptional writers' words.

Contact us with your questions or comments at editors@upthestaircase.org.  To submit your poetry or staircase photography to the next issue of Up the Staircase Quarterly, visit our Submission Guidelines page.

Love,
your editors,
Up the Staircase Quarterly