Shake shake ya booty, like Scooby Dooby

TIM HALL

Tim Hall is a graduate of Paul D. Schreiber High School. Read more about him at timhallbooks.com

RORY JOBST

Unlike Randy Newman, Rory Jobst loves short people. Earl Boykins, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alan Ladd, and Michael J. Fox all make him smile. In honor of his favorite height of people, Rory has devoted his life to writing short fiction, poetry, and plays. His short work has been seen in places like the Acme Arts Works, the Lunar Cabaret, and Prop Thtr and read in places like fictionatwork, Spoke, and yellow legal pad at the bottom of his NPR tote bag. Listen to him intermittent Mondays on DVD Geeks at Fearlessradio.com.

TIM RACINE

Tim Racine is a serious writer that writes serious works (completely false) and a super-awesome hype-man for a hip-hop group (completely true). Stalkers can visit: www.timracine.com

KATHRYN REGINA

Kathryn Regina has chapbooks from Publishing Genius Press and Greying Ghost Press. She's the new co-editor of "IsReads," an outdoor journal, and her blog is called www.this-is-not-poetry.blogspot.com


SIMON A. SMITH

Simon A. Smith lives in Lincoln Square with his wife and a murderous orange tabby named Cheever. He does not live with a flat screen TV, a couch manufactured after 1975 or adult window treatment. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Quick Fiction, Monkeybicycle, Opium, PANK, Bound Off, Dogzplot and a few others. He turned 30 a few weeks ago and is dealing with it... although not particularly well.

QUICKIES!
Tuesday, November 10
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT

JACOB S KNABB

Jacob' S. Knabb'’s double-life as Fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine and lecturer of composition at UIC has led him to cast his demons into a herd of swine he saw by a ravine. He is still waiting to hear them hit bottom.

ANDREW FARKAS

Andrew Farkas' Self-Titled Debut won the 2008 Subito Press Book Competition, and was published in December of 2008. His works have recently appeared in or will appear in The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Squid Quarterly, Spring Gun, Opium, and Sidebrow. When he's not writing, he's a runner for a letters racket on the Near West Side.

JESSA MARSH

Jessa Marsh hails from Michigan, but ran away to the big city of Chicago in 2007. She is a student at Columbia College in Chicago where she studies fiction. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Word Riot, decomP, Monkeybicycle, Storyglossia, Knee-Jerk, and Pank. She has read at the Sunday Night Sex Show. She is the web editor of Monkeybicycle.



ROBBIE Q. TELFER

Robbie Q. Telfer is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer/reader in hundreds of venues across North America and Germany - most recently with the spoken word experience The Junkyard Ghost Revival. Previous work appears in the American Book Review, Octopus Magazine, cream city review and decomP magazinE, as well as several spoken word anthologies and DVDs. He was an individual finalist at the National Poetry Slam in 2007 and he co-wrote the video game Ninjatown DS. He lives in Chicago where he curates the Encyclopedia Show and is the Director of Performing Arts for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit that gives creative writing opportunities and mentorship to Chicago teens. His first published collection of poetry, Spiking the Sucker Punch, will be released in the Fall from Write Bloody.



PATRICK SOMERVILLE

Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Northwestern University, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago. His first book of stories, Trouble, was published in September of 2006 (Vintage) and named 2006's Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago, and his first novel, The Cradle, was published by Little, Brown in March of 2009. His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Patrick was recently selected as the winner of the 2009 21st Century Award, given annually by the Chicago Public Library.



QUICKIES!
Tuesday, September 8
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas


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Hey girl, I like the way you dance

QUICKIES! IS BACK!


We're back with a BANG!

This month, QUICKIES! is having a double-celebration!

First, we're celebrating the release of our mascot, Toby Bengelsdorf's book, "An Implausibility of Gnus"

and

We're so so so happy to present our CONTEST WINNERS, this month's show will feature the top five stories from our very first QUICKIES! Contest!



ERICA WALKER ADAMS

Erica Adams lives in Chicago. You can read her blog at http://ericawadams.blogspot.com/



JAMES ADCOX

James Tadd Adcox is the Editor-in-Chief of Artifice Magazine (www.artificemag.com). He has work published or forthcoming in Quick Fiction, Makeout Creek, Barrelhouse, and the Literary Journal, among other places. He lives in Chicago.

GREG GERKE

Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo. His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train, Flash Forward Press 2009 Anthology and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com

SASHA GRAYBOSCH

Sasha Graybosch is a writer in New York City. Her fiction has appeared in elimae and Dogzplot and she contributes to the online magazine The Rumpus. She is a writing consultant at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and works for the indie press Akashic Books. She blogs at http://sashagraywart.blogspot.com/



MEGAN MILKS

Megan Milks is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois. Her work is anthologized in Thirty Under Thirty; Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers; and Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire. She won the 2008 Goodnow Award in Prose and was a finalist in DIAGRAM's inaugural $5 Innovative Fiction Contest. Her work can be found in DIAGRAM, Mad Hatters Review, Pocket Myths, and The Wild. She co-edits Mildred Pierce Magazine.
(http://mildredpierce.wordpress.com)



Hooray for Toby!

Hooray for the contest winners!

Hooray Hooray!



QUICKIES!
Tuesday, August 11
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago

Punk punk a punk rocker, QUICKIES!, punk punk a punk rocker, punk punk a punk rocker

featuring:

Dave Reidy
Fred Sasaki
Scott Stealey
Jac Jemc
Steve Tartaglione
and our Secret reader!


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, June 9
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago



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But JAC JEMC just couldn't stay, she had to break away, Well STEVE TARTAGLIONE, really has it all oh yeah, oh yeah (SECRET!)

JAC JEMC

Jac Jemc sells books in Chicago. Recent work has appeared from featherproof, ml Press, bearcreekfeed, Handsome, Bird Dog and Word Riot.



STEVE TARTAGLIONE

Steve Tartaglione is the elder twin, having been born four minutes before Jessica. Steve enjoys reading and writing and hopes to become a journalist someday. He writes for the Sweet Valley High newspaper and is always happy to offer advice or help to anyone.



SECRET READER!

Our secret reader doesn't actually write stories, the words assemble themselves out of fear.



QUICKIES!
Tuesday, June 9
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago



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DAVE REIDY all hopped up and ready to go, SCOTT STEALEY ready to go now they got their surfboards, And they're going to the discotheque Au FRED SASAKI

DAVE REIDY

In 2007, Charles D'Ambrosio chose Dave Reidy’s story "The Regular" as winner of the Emerging Writers Network Short Story Competition. Reidy's first book, Captive Audience, a collection of seven short stories about performers, is now available at you favorite online, chain, or independent bookseller.



SCOTT STEALEY

Scott Stealey has a website that he updates sporadically called Please Don't. He's written for Time Out and Playboy and has a Featherproof Mini-Book.



FRED SASAKI

Fred Sasaki publishes fiction, essays, and drama in MAKE, THE2NDHAND, STOP SMILING, ACM, and other places.



QUICKIES!
Tuesday, June 9
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago



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Get Famous with QUICKIES!

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

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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Is that your final answer?

Question: This awesome event is happening TONIGHT at the Innertown Pub.

Answer: What is the Innertown Pub's FIRST TRIVIA NIGHT!


That's right, our home, the Innertown Pub, is hosting their first TRIVIA NIGHT tonight! Go on, give it your best shot.

Support our home base and show your friends how very very smart you are!!!


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I've got a lovely bunch of QUICKIES! Readers! Tee dee lee dee!

MAHMOUD SAEED

Mahmoud Saeed was born in 1939 in Mosul, Iraq. He has written more than 20 novels and numerous short stories, winning literary awards in Iraq and Egypt. Since 1999 Mr. Saeed has lived in Chicago, where he teaches Arabic at DePaul University. He has contributed numerous articles to Arabic literary magazines and newspapers, as well as seven articles to Al Jadid magazine published in Engish. In 2003 his novel I Who Witnessed was published in an English translation by Dar As Saqi in London under the title Saddam City.

SAM REAVES

Sam Reaves is the author of seven Chicago-based crime novels, most recently Mean Town Blues, released by Pegasus in 2008.Under the pseudonym Dominic Martell he has published a European-based suspense trilogy.Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher and a translator.

SPENCER DEW

Spencer Dew is ubiquitous. Spencer's first book, "Songs of Insurgency" is now out from Vagabond press.

LAURA GOLDSTEIN

Laura Goldstein is a lover and a fighter. she does yoga and watches tv. she takes the bus and also walks. She has two books out, "ice in intervals" and "day of answers." She's been published recently in otoliths and pfs post. She also performs and makes sound work. She teaches at Loyola and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her new chapbook, "let her" is forthcoming from Scantily Clad Press. She usually writes poetry but loves quickies.



JOSH AMIDON

Josh spends the bulk of his time dominating small children on YMCA ping-pong tables all over the city. Josh has recently mastered the burrito. Finally, with a writer like Josh, it's easiest to focus on the places his work has not appeared; his work has not appeared in... oh, god, this is hard, there's just so few left. Oprah. His work has not appeared in Oprah... YET.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, April 14
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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To make this long story short-short When the cop pulled QUICKIES! over I was scared as hell I said, "I don't have a license but I drive very well."

QUICKIES!

featuring:
AD Jameson
Megan Stielstra
Simon A. Smith
Amy Stern
and Kyle Beachy

QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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That's when I saw this beautiful AMY STERN walking I picked up my car phone to perpetrate like I was talking

AMY STERN

Amy Stern is basically the female Kyle Beachy.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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Oh-kay, here's the situation KYLE BEACHY's parents went away on a week's vacation and They left the keys to the brand new Porsche Would they mind?

KYLE BEACHY

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide, has been called 'strange' and 'unusual' and 'fierce' and 'tense' and 'funny' and 'terribly sad'. He is 5'9" and thirty years old.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago

And check out this great review of The Slide in the Chicago Tribune!

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MEGAN STIELSTRA said, "Mom, what are you doing, you're ruining my rep" Mom said, "You're only sixteen, you don't have a rep yet"

MEGAN STIELSTRA

Megan Stielstra runs 2nd Story, an urban storytelling series set in wine bars where she regularly tells stories to drunk people. A recent Opium Literary Death Match champ, she's performed for The Goodman, The MCA, The Neo-Futurarium, Story Week and The Dollar Store, among others. Her writing has appeared in Other Voices, Freshyarn, Swink, Pindeldyboz, The 2nd Hand, Punk Planet and regularly on Chicago Public Radio. She teaches fiction at Columbia College and The U of C. Visit her at www.meganstielstra.com.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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