Sunday, December 13, 2009

Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

Welp, December's Quickies! went off with nary a hitch in sight! An audience accrued despite assholish weather! Our readers killed! No one cried! See for yourselves:

Honorary mascot Zach Dodson started it off, reading Amelia Gray's TripleQuick story from his iPhone!

Sarah Grainer read about mystery blood and camping!

Lindsay Hunter, SSDD!

Geoff Hyatt got whistled off and just kept going!

Lex Sonne doesn't fuck around when it comes to 1. great stories and 2. snow boots!

Mary Hamilton read from the Mary Hamilton Classics Collection!

Jesse Jordan, you had us at "tugboat"!

Jill Summers casually shredded the room!

'Twas a goodun. Thanks once again to our loyal audience and Innertown Pub! Stay tuned, ch-ch-ch-changes on the horizon! Happy holidays and we'll see you January 12.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

I WANT YOUR ROMANCE AND I WANT YOUR READING.


Quickies!

Tuesday, December 8
7:30 PM
Innertown Pub

Featuring:

SARAH GRAINER

Sarah Grainer is a writer and emoticon designer currently squatting in Tinley Park.

GEOFF HYATT

Geoff Hyatt's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Temenos, Necrotic Tissue, ThugLit, The Harrow, and elsewhere. His first novel will be published by Leucrota Press in October 2010. A former staff writer for a children's entertainment company, bookseller, activist, and factory worker, he now writes and teaches in Chicago.

LEX SONNE

Lex Sonne is from central Kentucky. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Eleven Eleven, New Madrid, and Night Train. He is also the co-editor of the literary magazine Somnambulist Quarterly.

JESSE JORDAN

Jesse Jordan is best known as the inventor of such recreational activities as Jukebox Challenge, Flaming Kickball and Oaktree. He's huge in Europe.

JILL SUMMERS

Jill's audio fiction has been featured internationally by Chicago Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and New Adventures in Sound Art. Her work has appeared in Stop Smiling Magazine, Ninth Letter, Annalemma, The 2nd Hand, and MAKE magazine, among other places. She has three collections of audio shorts, Cohabitation, Les Petites Tristes, and In The Realm of Normal Sized Things.