MARY HAMILTON is a WINNER!!

Rose Metal Press has just announced the winner of their annual chapbook contest, and it's our very own Mary Hamilton!! When you see her out, buy her a drink!!

Congratulations, Mary! We can't wait to read WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE!

And congratulations to past Quickies! readers Tim Jones-Yelvington (finalist), James Tadd Adcox (semi-finalist), and Spencer Dew (semi-finalist)!

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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TELL ME WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IF WE GO BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN...

You've heard of SuperSizin'. You know how it can clog your arteries and cottage-cheese up your thighs. But you're also familiar with how delicious something meaty and salty and bigger than normal feels sliding down your throat (that's for you, pervy blog skimmers!). Well, that's kind of how the Quickies! FUNdraiser was, and thankfully we had an audience full of deep throats (I'm sorry. I really am.).

Anyway. There were a lot of readers and a lot of amazing:

Casey Bye!

Aaron Plasek!

Kate Duva!

Richard Thomas!

This bitch!

Ben Tanzer!

Elizabeth Wylder!

After an intermission, there was the Dollar Store Reunion Tour!:

Caroline Picard!

Mary Hamilton! (Recently nominated by Smokelong Quarterly for Dzanc's Best of the Web, 2010!)

Zach Dodson!

Jac Jemc (blinded by her own brilliance)!

Aaron Burch! (For some reason there was no picture taken of Snack Pack. Instead, enjoy this video.)

Blake Butler!

Amelia Gray (fucking slayed)!

Shew. It was a long'un. But we made more money than at last year's fundraiser, and for that we thank our dear, dear audience! We love you!

See you November 10!

Holy frijoles you guys...

This month's Quickies! may kick your ass! Our October show will be our second FUNdraiser! We have twelve amazing readers traveling from four states to join us for this show. Yow!

For only the second time ever, we are asking for handouts. In return, we will give our audience the best reading they have ever seen ever and if they're lucky, a few audience members will win prizes.

Featuring:

JAC JEMC
Jac Jemc has a novel coming out in three years from Dzanc. In the meantime, she's blogging her rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.

ELIZABETH WYLDER
Elizabeth Wylder's poetry, fiction, and audio have appeared in various literary journals including 2River View, The Legendary, and Natural Bridge. She is the editor of Pure Francis (www.purefrancis.org) and an instructor at Triton and Malcolm X Colleges. When she grows up, she wants to play in the NBA.


BEN TANZER
Ben Tanzer writes. He also blogs at This Blog Will Change Your Life (bentanzer.blogspot.com/). And watches way too much Sports Center. Still upon on his deathbed, he will receive total consciousness. So he’s got that going for him. Which is nice.

KATE DUVA
Kate Duva grew up in Chicago in a bar. Her work can be found in Fugue, Opium, and The Duva Diaries, a self-made publication. She has performed at the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mics awards, the Uptown Poetry Slam, and on Vocalo radio. Find her online at www.kateduva.blogspot.com.

CAROLINE PICARD

In addition to working as a visual artist, Caroline Picard is the Founding Director of The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, and a Co-Editor for the literary podcast The Parlor (www.theparlorreads.com). Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including the Phildelphia Independant, NewCity, Lumpen, MAKE Magazine, the Chicago Art Journal Review and Proximity Magazine. Twice a year she meets with a performance group and records improvised music under the collective alias Thee Iran Contras. For more information please visit www.thegreenlantern.org

AARON PLASEK

Aaron Plasek lives in Denver, Colorado, and is patiently waiting for the courage to write the book he does not know how to write. His poems can be found in Diagram, Alice Blue, Juked, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and intermittently makes a living teaching literature and composition, most recently at Colorado State University and most most recently to the mockingbird that lives in his backyard.

AMELIA GRAY

Is the author of AM/PM, published by Featherproof Books. Her bookMuseum of the Weird is coming out in October 2010 through FC2.

CASEY BYE

Casey Bye is an MFA candidate in the Fiction Program at Columbia College Chicago. He currently writes for the A&E section of Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express and was previously a staff writer for Milwaukee’s Undercurrents. He is an editor and cofounder of the online literary journal, Knee-Jerk (kneejerkmag.com). He would like to own a dog someday so that his bio could read "He writes and lives with his dog in Chicago" because that'd be a cool bio, right?

ZACH DODSON

Zach Dodson once drank half a bottle of codeine cough syrup and recorded a song called Crazy Bat on his computer.

RICHARD THOMAS

Richard was the winner of the ChiZine Publications 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest. His short story “Maker of Flight” was chosen by Filaria author Brent Hayward and Bram Stoker Award-Winning editor Brett Alexander Savory. Some of his publishing credits include Cemetery Dance (Shivers VI anthology, late 2009), 3:AM Magazine, Word Riot, Dogmatika, Gold Dust, Vain and Opium. He is currently pursuing a MFA at Murray State University in their low-residency program. He is also shopping his neo-noir thriller, Transubstantiate. Richard is a member of the Horror Writer’s Association.

AARON BURCH

edits hobart
spent his summer drunk and in a van on the dollar store tour
has a chapbook of short shorts coming out by the end of the year
is currently a student down there at university of illinois, champaign-urbana
will be reading in chicago again on thursday (10/15) for another chicago magazine's new issue release party

BLAKE BUTLER

Blake Butler is fucking stupid.

So bring your party asses, friends! And some dollar dollar bills, ya'll! We love you and we can't wait to see each and every one of you!

Tuesday, October 13th

7:30 p.m.

Inntertown Pub

1935 W. Thomas, Chicago

QUICKIES + PRINTERS' BALL = TLF

Quickies! will be hosting the Chicago reading series face-off at this year's Printers' Ball! The Printers' Ball is FREE and you're sure to run into a lot of friends and enemies (and covert booze)!

Fifth Annual Printers' Ball

Ludington Building
1104 South Wabash Avenue
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Admission to the Printers’ Ball is free and open to all ages.

Founded by Poetry magazine with other independent Chicago literary organizations, the Printers’ Ball is an annual celebration of print culture, featuring thousands of magazines, books, and broadsides available free of charge; live readings and music; letterpress, offset, and paper-making demonstrations; and much more. This year’s Printers’ Ball is co-produced with Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Book & Paper Arts, and is set to take place in the landmark Ludington Building, former home to the American Book Company. Select events during the Printers’ Ball are being recorded for Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago Amplified.

See you there!!

BBQ! Dollar Store! Hideout!

The Dollar Store Tour kicks off today with a BBQ/reading/improv show at the Hideout from 1-6 p.m. If you like food and being amused, this your shit. 

1-6pm, $8

The Hideout

1354 W Wabansia Ave

Chicago, IL 60642

Readings by: Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Chris Bower, Aaron Burch, Elizabeth Crane, Zach Dodson, Natalie Edwards, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc, Jonathan Messinger, Caroline Picard, Diana Slickman, Scott Stealey, Jill Summers, Robbie Q. Telfer

Improv by: 1, 2, 3, Fag and Hag! (Seth Dodson, Kellen Alexander, John Hartman and Christina Boucher), and An Oak (Neil Dandade and Adam Schwartz)

It's ALSO a big barbeque, and all you can eat drumsticks, and veggie burgers, and fixin's, and corn-on-the-cob, and picnic sides!
Oh, and one more thing: we’re raffling off a custom-built, featherproof-themed bike, compliments of Working Bikes Cooperative.
This afternoon delight will cost $8 at the door, and for $8 you get 8 things:
1. Admission
2. A featherproof mini book
3. Readings by Chicago’s finest and Improv by Chicago’s funniest
4. Hosted bar by Red Stripe 1-3pm! Yum!
5. All the barbeque you can eat
6. Your very own Dollar Store official souvenir pin
7. A Working Bikes bike raffle ticket
8. A shot at a missed connection, and the time of your life.

Come one, come all!

Vacation all I really wanted, Vacation happy to get away! QUICKIES!

 

Yeah, ma, your dude is back...you ain't got to argue about who could rap...

Sausage Fest was a success! Thanks to all who came out:

And thanks to these dudes:

 

The adorable and amazing Steve Tartaglione

Rory "Don't need no fake facial hair and tape bullshit" Jobst

Mary Hamilton, reading a story written by Theodore Huxtable

Chad "Get the box" Chmielowicz

Lindsay "Such a pretty mess of my dress" Hunter

Tim "Making Lindsay's dream come true" Kinsella

(Holy shit. A major influence on Lindsay's creative process since, oh, 1996ish)

Jonathan "I shit amazing stories on a daily basis" Messinger

We'll admit it, the guys brought it! See you next month at the AWP Spectacular, which is THURSDAY, February 12!! (Get there early, because it's going to sell out. Just sayin'.)

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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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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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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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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