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QUICKIES! is hosting a contest!

We invite you and all of your friends to submit work for our bi-annual reading contest!

Send us a story that you think would fit in nicely at QUICKIES!

We will select our top 5-7 stories and those lucky ladies and gents will be the line-up for our show on August 11!

Rules:

Prose only
No excerpts
keep it short, QUICKIES! has a time limit
Put the text of the story in the email--no attachments!!!
Make the subject of the email "I wanna get with Quickies!"
One submission per person

send your entries to quickieschicago (at) gmail (dot) com

DEADLINE=June 1 (that's TOMORROW!)
Response=June 30

All writers are welcome to submit, if you've read at QUICKIES! before, go ahead and send us something, if you've never written a story before in your life, give it a shot!!

Just put your pen to paper and GET WRITING!

tell your friends, lovers, neighbors, and enemies

xoxo,
Lindsay and Mary

http://quickieschicago.blogspot.com

Tonight!

In honor of the Pilcrow Lit Fest, the return of the Dollar Store! Come to the Hideout at 7 p.m., pay one measly dollar, and see the likes of:

Brian Costello

Edward Thomas Herrera

and our very own Mary Hamilton!

As always, the Dollar Store is hosted by Jonathan Messinger (who will also read something equally hilarious and poignant, as per usual) and Abraham Levitan. This is the best reading series in Chicago (yep, we said it), so don't miss it!

The Dollar Store

Hideout, 7 p.m.

$1

BLUFFIN WITH MY MUFFIN

The Pilcrow Quickies! was, as we said with great seriousness in sixth grade, AWESOMONIOUS. Check out this amazing lineup!

Toby Bengelsdorf

Nicolette Bond

Jessi Lee Gaylord

Mary Hamilton

Jill Summers

Barry Graham

Lindsay Hunter

Geoffrey Forsyth

Kathleen Rooney

Thanks so much to the fantastic lineup, thanks to Innertown, and thanks to the amazing and receptive crowd:







And a special shout-out to our pal Amy Guth, without whom there would be no Pilcrow. Thanks Amy!

See you June 9!

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker QUICKIES!

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!

featuring:

Nicolette Bond

Jill Summers

Jessi Lee Gaylord

Kathleen Rooney

Geoffrey Forsyth

and Barry Graham

May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

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I won't tell you that I love you Kiss or hug you Cause I'm bluffin' with my KATHLEEN ROONEY

KATHLEEN ROONEY

Kathleen Rooney is the author of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object and Reading with Oprah: the Book Club that Changed America. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author ofThat Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, and with Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press.

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

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I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning Just like a BARRY GRAHAM in the casino

BARRY GRAHAM

Barry Graham is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. he also teaches writing at rutgers and wrote the national virginity pledge (another sky press). He also does all this: www.dogzplot.com

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

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Can't read my - Can't read my - no GEOFFREY FORSYTH can't read my Poker Face (she's got to love nobody)

GEOFFREY FORSYTH

Geoffrey Forsyth's chapbook In The Land Of The Free was the winner of the Rose Metal Press Second Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest in 2008. His work has appeared in Other Voices, New Orleans Review, CutBank, and several other literary magazines. His story "Mud" appeared in the 2007 Norton Anthology: New Sudden Fiction.

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas, Please -Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with JILL SUMMERS

JILL SUMMERS

Jill's fiction has been featured by Chicago Public Radio, Make Magazine, Stop Smiling magazine, VAIN magazine, Featherproof and Gapers Block among others. You can find her at www.callingallmonkeys.com 

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh I'll get him hot, show him what NICOLETTE BOND got

NICOLETTE BOND

Nicolette Bond is a breadbasket poet with a nose for trouble. She is currently working on earning her MRS degree in the Heartland. Her poems have appeared at the bottom of the bottle and once came between a goat and its last meal.

QUICKIES!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

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P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face (Mum mum mum JESSI LEE GAYLORD)

JESSI 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!

Pilcrow Lit Fest Spectacular!
May 19
7:30 pm
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL

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Bless This Mess

Okay, there really is no excuse for our (okay, Lindsay's) tardiness in posting these pics, especially when we had such a great lineup:

As always, our dear mascot, Toby Bengelsdorf

Josh Amidon

Laura Goldstein

This guy

Ms. "Oh, Yeah, One of My Stories Happens to Be on the Wigleaf Long Shortlist of 2009, Whatever"

Spencer Dew (Who has a story on the Wigleaf Shortlist of 2009!)

Sam Reaves

Mahmoud Saeed (with guest reader Sam Reaves)

A great lineup and a great (though humble) crowd! Thanks to all who braved the craptastic weather!

And remember that the next Quickies! is the third Tuesday of May, the 19th, smack dab in the middle of the Pilcrow Lit Fest. See you then!