I want my $2!!!!!

Jac Jemc's new chapbook, A HEAVEN GONE, is available now from ML Press!! It's a measly $2 and as far as I can tell, shipping is free. Get your copy before they sell out!

Also newly out from ML Press is SOME OF THE LETTERS THAT WERE CUT, BUT THAT TELL EVEN MORE OF THE STORY OF JONATHAN BENDER, WEATHERMAN (b. 1967-d. 1999) by Michael Kimball and LIKE IT WAS HER PLACE by future Quickies! reader, Kim Chinquee. 

When I say m! you say lady!

Mary Hamilton has a great new story up at Thieves Jargon! Check it out here and then when you see Mlle. Hamilton, slap her on the ass with glee!!

Put your pants on for SAUSAGE FEST!!!

All I'm saying is we are the voice of a generation. That's all.

Check out the current issue of TIME OUT CHICAGO (December 18-31).

QUICKIES! is listed as the best reading series of 2008!

Gosh, our cheeks are blushing.

Thanks, TIME OUT!



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It's me, Ma. You ain't dreamin. Starstruck MARY HAMILTON, JAC JEMC, AMY GUTH & TIM HALL damn near stopped breathin...

Quickies! Bostonian wife Mary Hamilton, along with past readers Jac Jemc and Amy Guth AND future reader Tim Hall, will be reading at the Orange Alert Reading series Monday, December 15 at The Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee, at 7 p.m.! This kind of lineup doesn't come along too often, so make sure you don't miss it!

This TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF harrassed the whole neighborhood...

Quickies! mascot Toby Bengelsdorf has a Featherproof mini-book just waiting to be downloaded, folded, and treasured for all eternity. It includes some of the best Zach Plague design work I've seen yet! Check it out!

T to the H to the A-N-K Y-O-U!!!

Thank you! For making it through the snow to the show on Tuesday!

It was well worth the trek, thanks to you!

Mascot

Mandy Hobomeier

Shannon Schmidt

Mary Hamilton

Melanie Datz

Lindsay Hunter

Margaret Chapman

James Kennedy

Next month is SAUSAGE FEST
an all-male line-up
will they be able to even come close to the awesome wonder that was Ladies Night?!



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QUICKIES: It's such a good vibration, it's such a sweet sensation

featuring: 

James Kennedy

Margaret Chapman

Shannon Schmidt

Melanie Datz

Mandy Hobmeier

Mary Hamilton

and Lindsay Hunter

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL.

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On the house tip is how MANDY HOBMEIER swingin' this

MANDY HOBMEIER

Mandy Hobmeier is a writer and student living in Chicago.

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Marky Mark and I'm here to move you. Rhythms will groove MARGARET CHAPMAN

MARGARET CHAPMAN

Margaret Chapman is a writer and teacher who lives in Chicago. She enjoys fish tacos, which sounds dirty (really it's not) and writing stories about dead people.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Hold up wait a minute don't go there, 'cuz I ain't your hooooooo...ly smokes, look at all this talent!

Quickies! contributor Jac Jemc has a story in the new Caketrain (also featuring SAIC prof and the source of many wet dreams, Sara Levine!)! I've already ordered my copy and I can't wait to get my dirty, dirty hands on it. Mlle. Jemc also has a story at Dogzplot and a 50-word story and interview (MH/LH shout-out, what?) at Nick Ostdick's blog.

Any other Quickies! contributors with good news? Email it to quickieschicagoATgmailDOTcom and we'll put it up here faster than you can say "Those are some fast sluts!"

Bringing this to the entire nation, Black, white, red, brown, feel the JAMES KENNEDY

JAMES KENNEDY

James Kennedy lives in Humboldt Park. His first novel, "The Order of Odd-Fish," was published by Random House's Delacorte Books in August.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Strictly Hip-Hop, MELANIE DATZ, I ain't singin this.

MELANIE DATZ

Melanie Datz is a student in the MFA program at Columbia College Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in Night Train, The First Line, and the anthology Open to Interpretation. She remains traumatized by a year spent waiting tables.

QUICKIES

Tuesday, December 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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YO! It's about that time to bring forth the rhythm and the SHANNON SCHMIDT.

SHANNON SCHMIDT

Shannon Schmidt is a writer and installation artist finishing up her final (whew) year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been writing fiction that explores myth and the mundane, as well as another project, dealing with public space in Chicago and its relationship to found speech.

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, December 9

7:30 pm

The Innertown Pub

1935 W Thomas

Chicago, IL

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Say hello to your mutha for QUICKIES!

The December Quickies! is quickly approaching. Mark your calendars, it's gonna be wild.



featuring:
James Kennedy
Margaret Chapman
Shannon Schmidt
Melanie Datz
Mandy Hobmeier


QUICKIES!
Tuesday
December 9
7:30 pm
The Innetown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL


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It's like a jungle sometimes...

On Saturday, the Chicago International Badminton League began their inaugural winter tournament and QUICKIES! was invited to represent.

The competition was tough. Not only did we need to bring our badminton skills, we also needed to have coordinating outfits and a hearty arsenal of trash talk.

Needless to say, we brought it.


Also, it's for a good cause, ya'll. All athletes brought donations and the first weekend raised $123 dollars for CAWC!

Thanks, Zach and Ally!


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THANK YOU!

Well, the Ladies rocked it.

Ladies night was one of our best-attended and funniest shows.
The crowd was awesome!
The ladies were awesome!

Thanks for making Ladies night rawk!

here's some pics:

Kelly Xintaris

Marisa Plumb


Amy Stern

Lindsay Hunter

Lauren Pretnar

Beth Wylder

Mary Hamilton

Jessi Lee Gaylord

Erin Teegarden

our awesome crowd!

Again, thanks for another awesome show.
December is going to kick some bum, stay tuned for more info!



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How many QUICKIES does it take till you get to the center of the? (Tell me, ha)

It's here!

QUICKIES! Ladies Night!


featuring:

Lauren Pretnar
Kelly Xintaris
Marisa Plumb
Jessi Lee Gaylord
Amy Stern
Erin Teegarden
Elizabeth Wylder


Tuesday
November 11
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas




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Let's talk about QUICKIES!, baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be

AMY STERN

Amy works from home, which luckily means she rarely has to put on real clothes. She goes to SAIC, where she's getting her MFA in writing and baked goods, though not necessarily in that order.


LAUREN PRETNAR

Lauren Pretnar is a writer, a social worker, and theatre-er. She lives in Chicago.


JESSE LEE GAYLORD

Jessi Lee Gaylord lives and writes in Chicago. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review, and After Hours. She is currently an MFA student, and hard at work on her first novel.



QUICKIES!
Ladies Night!
November 11
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30 pm



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Uh, uh, uh, huh yo, yo, QUICKIES! Drop your glasses, shake your asses, Face screwed up like you having hot flashes

ELIZABETH WYLDER

Elizabeth Wylder's poetry, fiction, and audio have appeared in several literary journals. In the past, she has been a paralegal, delivered hot dogs, and painted children to look like dalmatians at Walt Disney World. She is currently a co-editor of Lark magazine and an instructor at Triton and Daley Colleges. When she grows up, she wants to play in the NBA.


MARISA PLUMB

Marisa Plumb is a writer who went to art school. There, she learned to create writings that look like performances, videos, and computer programs. She shares them at a handful of Chicago venues – most recently at the Red Rover Reading Series, and at the Beverly Arts Center. She runs a fake company from a cubicle in downtown Chicago.


QUICKIES!
Ladies Night!
Tuesday, November 11
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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This is for my QUICKIES! all around the world Who've come across a man who don't respect your worth Thinking all women should be seen, not heard

ERIN TEEGARDEN

Erin Teegarden is the co-founder, co-organizer and emcee of the reconstruction room reading series. Currently, she teaches Literature at Columbia College. She received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in poetry and a BA from Indiana University in journalism. She is the founder and former managing editor of the University of Pittsburgh's first online literary journal,nidus. She is a former recipient of the Associated Writing Programs' "Intro Journals Award," and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: pms (poemmemoirstory), Conte Online, Lorraine and James, nanomajority, the Bellingham Review, Eye-Rhyme, Sunspinner, Poetry Motel, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, and Pittsburgh's City Paper, among others.


KELLY XINTARIS

Kelly Xintaris is rapidly approaching MFA-hood from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work most recently appears in the 2008 issue of Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, which just came out last week.


QUICKIES!
Ladies Night!
Tuesday, November 11
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL


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From New York to Hollywood It's the QUICKIES! Ladies Night and girl the feeling's good

Mark your calendars!

The November 11th Quickies is right around the corner!


Featuring:

Lauren Pretnar

Marisa Plumb

Kelly Xintaris
Amy Stern
Beth Wylder
Erin Teegarden
and Jessi Lee Gaylord

check back for more info on these ladeez.


Quickies! Ladies Night
Tuesday November 11
7:30pm
the Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL


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55 words of deeeeee-light! (picture montage!)

THANK YOU!

Thanks to all your kindness and generosity, the QUICKIES! FUNdraiser was a huge success!

We can't wait to:
make posters
make fliers
get a for real website
and of course
every good short fiction reading series needs a
GONG

Thank you again for all the support.

Pics coming soon soon soon!


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TONIGHT! The FUNdraiser!

Kyle Beachy

Dave Snyder

Tobias Amidon Benglesdorf

Heidi McKye

Zach Plague

Colt Foutz

James Lower

Jessi Lee Gaylord

Amy Guth

Spencer Dew

Nicolette Bond

Maria Parrott

Jac Jemc

Lauren Pretnar

Ben Tanzer

Sam Reaves

JT Litchfield

Kevin Fink

Amira Hanafi

Lex Sonne

Geoffrey Forsyth

Melanie Datz

Laura Goldstein

Kate Harbaugh

Marissa Plumb

Chris Bower

Jon Fullmer

Steve Tartaglione (tar-tag-lee-oh-knee)

Josh Amidan

Jonathan Messinger



QUICKIES!
55 word extravaganza!
FUNdraiser

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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Might as well face it, you're addicted to QUICKIES!

QUICKIES!
55 Word Bonanza!
Our best and brightest will read 55 word stories in a rapid-fire reading!
Tuesday, October 14
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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QUICKIES! may call you, Any night, any day, In your heart, you'll hear it call you: "Come away...Come away."

Thanks for making September Spectacular!!!


Check out these great pics:


Kevin Fink:



Kate Harbaugh:



Lindsay Hunter:



Mary Hamilton:



Jon Fullmer:



Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf:



Kyle Beachy:



Sam Reaves:



Our Sassy! Crowd:


Thanks for supporting our show!

Next reading:
Tuesday, October 14
55 Word Bonanza/fundraiser
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night, Tonight there will be no morning star Tonight, tonight, I'll see QUICKIES! tonight.

TONIGHT!

is going to rawk.

Kate Harbaugh
Kevin Fink
Kyle Beachy
Mary Hamilton
Lindsay Hunter
Tobias Amadon Benglesdorf
Jon Fullmer
and Sam Reaves


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas



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There is nothin' like a dame, Nothin' in the world, There is nothin' you can name That is anythin' like a KATE HARBAUGH!

KATE HARBAUGH

Chicago (by way of New Hampshire) writer, Kate Harbaugh, is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She writes good.


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas




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I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright! And I pity Any TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF who isn't me tonight.

TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF

Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf's fiction has appeared in elimae, and This Zine Will Change Your Life, and his audio work in Lark(!). He is the generalissimo of Fiction at Work, an assistant editor at The Green Lantern, and an instructor at St. Augustine College. He lives in Chicago.

Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas

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Moon River, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style some day. Oh, KYLE BEACHY, you heart breaker, wherever you're going I'm going your way.

KYLE BEACHY

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide, will be published in January by The Dial Press. You can learn all about it at the website he named after himself: www.kylebeachy.com.


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas



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The hills are alive with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill JON FULLMER'S heart with the sound of music.

JON FULLMER

Jon Fullmer is the 2007-08 Follett Fellow at Columbia College, where he is currently working on an MFA in writing. You may find his work, either now or in the near future, on BookSlut.com and in Pen Pricks, as well as in a number of health-related magazines that no one has ever heard of. Ever. He has no pets, one wife, and plays zero musical instruments. He used to live in Tennessee.


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas


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When you're a SAM REAVES, You're a Jet all the way From your first cigarette To your last dyin' day.

SAM REAVES

Sam Reaves has worked as a teacher and a translator. His seventh Chicago-based crime novel, entitled Mean Town Blues, is due out from Pegasus Books in November. Under the name Dominic Martell he has published three suspense novels set in Europe. See his website at samreaves.com.


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas



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Chim chiminy Chim chiminy Chim chim cher-ee! A KEVIN FINK is as lucky As lucky can be!

KEVIN FINK

Kevin Fink is from Kansas. He moved to Chicago for grad school at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has never had anything published. At all. But he does write recaps of crappy t.v. shows for a website called TVGasm.com. (And, hot damn, can he dance!)


Quickies!
Tuesday
September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas


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When the dog bites When the bee stings When I'm feeling sad I simply remember QUICKIES! And then I don't feel so bad

Hey! Check it out! We have a super-duper line-up for September:

Kate Harbaugh
Kevin Fink
Kyle Beachy
Mary Hamilton
Lindsay Hunter
Tobias Amadon Benglesdorf
Jon Fullmer
and Sam Reaves


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas



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You say You say You say You say You say One for the trouble Two for the time Come on QUICKIES! let rock that

Whew! It's taken some time to recover from the fun that was the August 12th QUICKIES! We had a wicked awesome line-up, a super crowd, and cupcakes!

Let's get to the pics, shall we?



Lindsay and Mary "banter:"


J.T. Litchfield:


James Lower:




Mary Hamilton:


Colt Foutz:

Geoffrey Forsyth (buy his book, it's real real good):




Lindsay "The Hottness" Hunter:


Jill Summers:


Elizabeth Crane:





See ya next month!!



Our next reading is Tuesday, September 9th, and we can't wait!

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They like us! They really like us!

Check it out!

We've been Time Out Chicago approved!



The kind Jonathan Messinger wrote about our Tuesday night reading.

You can read the blog post here.

Thanks Jonathan!




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