Quickies! alum (and inaugural whistlee) Lex Sonne has launched an online lit journal called Somnambulist Quarterly. Based on its extremely solid first issue, the future looks bright for SQ. From the website:
Check it out and submit! Shit is tight.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Whatta Mag Whatta Mag Whatta Mag Whatta Mighty Good Lit Mag
Check it out and submit! Shit is tight.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Ah ssss PUSH IT. PUSH AWP REAL GOOD.
Our severe lateness in putting up this recap post can be explained by the fact that the Quickies! AWP Spectacular blew our minds and we've just waken from the coma. Every. single. reader. was. amazing. To wit:
Sean Lovelace (we stole this photo from Sean's blog. We were so flabbergasted by his story we forgot to take a picture. But here he is with Kim Chinquee!)
Robert Lopez (we didn't get a picture of him reading, but here's video of him reading. Uh, at a different event. Buy his book.)
Bitchface McGee
Joe Salvatore (if I had a dime for how many people came up to me to say how much they loved this story, I'd have a shitload of dimes)
Janet Desaulniers
Brian Evenson. Yep.
Seriously. It's great to have our motor skills back, but it was all worth it to be able to witness and be a part of such a lineup. Thanks to all the readers, and thanks to the audience, who braved an extremely crowded sweat lodge in order to hear some great short fiction:
And last but not least, thanks to these guys:
See you in March (our year anniversary)!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Come and give me some of that yum-yum Chocolate chip, honey dip, can I get a scoop? Baby, take a ride in my coupe, you make me wanna...QUICKIES!
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm SHARP
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Well-a, I like 'em real wild, b-boy style by the mile Smooth SEAN LOVELACE with a smile
SEAN LOVELACE
Sean Lovelace is on a river right now. He has a book and a beer. Other times he teaches at Ball State University. His work recently appeared in CrazyHorse, Willow Springs, and so on.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Straight up, wait up, hold up, Mr. Lover Like Prince said you're a sexy mutha-PETER MARKUS
PETER MARKUS
Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short-short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, 3rd Bed, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, Third Coast, Another Chicago Magazine, New Orleans Review, Unsaid, Post Road, Sleeping Fish, New York Tyrant, among elsewhere, and have appeared in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction, Fiction Gallery, Sudden Stories, PP: FF, The Best of the Prose Poem, as well as online at 5_Trope, failbetter, taint, elimae and in a previous issue of Avatar Review. Bob, or Man on Boat, available from Dzanc Books, is his first novel.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
You're a shotgun - bang! What's up with that SAMUEL LIGON? I wanna know how does it ROBERT LOPEZ?
ROBERT LOPEZ
Robert Lopez is the author of Part of the World. His fiction has appeared in dozens of journals. A new novel, Kamby Bolongo Mean River is forthcoming in September from Dzanc Books. He teaches fiction writing at The New School, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.
SAMUEL LIGON
Samuel Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve (Autumn House 2009), and Safe in Heaven Dead, a novel, (HarperCollins 2003). His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University, and is the editor of Willow Springs.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Can I get some fries with that shake-shake bootie? If looks could kill BRIAN KUBARYCZ would be an uzi
BRIAN KUBARYCZ
Brian Kubarycz writes and paints in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he teaches for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Brian received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Quarterly and Unsaid.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Ummm, you're packed and you're stacked 'specially in the back Brother, wanna thank your mother for a butt like that (thanks, KIM CHINQUEE)
KIM CHINQUEE
Kim Chinquee is the author of Oh Baby (Ravenna Press), the forthcoming Big Cages (White Pine Press), and is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: Best of the First Ten Years
(Snowvigate Press). She is the recipient of a Henfield Prize and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Buffalo, New York.
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AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Shoop shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop BLAKE BUTLER
BLAKE BUTLER
Blake Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press 01/09) and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books 09/09). His work has appeared in Fence, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, New York Tyrant, etc. He lives in Atlanta and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do So well it's a spell, hell, makes BRIAN EVENSON wanna shoop shoop shoop
BRIAN EVENSON
BRIAN EVENSON is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain (Coffee House) which was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an IHG Award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown Universityís Literary Arts Program. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean FrÈmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. A novel, Last Days, and a new collection of stories, Fugue State, are forthcoming in 2009.
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THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Lick him like a lollipop should be licked Came to my senses and JANET DESAULNIERS chilled for a bit
JANET DESAULNIERS
Janet Desaulniers published a collection of stories called What You've Been Missing. She's finishing a book of miniatures called The Last American Novel and starting a memoir about teaching & writing & death. An excerpt, Murderer, is forthcoming in the Seattle Review. She is right now walking and typing this at her treadmill desk, which is her current best thing.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Felt it in my hips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks Then I flipped for a tip, make me wanna do tricks for LINDSAY HUNTER
LINDSAY HUNTER
Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has previously been published in Nerve, Featherproof, MAKE, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. All that she wants is another baby--he's gone tomorrow, but all that she wants is another baby.
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AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
A ho? No, that don't make TOBIAS AMADON BENGELSDORF See what I want slip slide to it swifty
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, an instructor at St. Augustine College, and the Quickies! Mascot. He lives in Chicago.
QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm
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