TOBYFEST and Contest Winners Night: A Success!

It was a grand August Quickies!, what with our dear mascot being recognized and all the previously-unknown-to-us contest winners kicking ass and bringing in new audience members. Two of our winners don't even live in Chicago, or even in the same time zone, but were able to make the trip to read!

First, our amazing contest winners (plus Mary):

Erica Walker Adams read one-armed! 

Mary Hamilton read an amazing story written the same day! (Her shit's blowin up right now. Get familiar here, here, and here!)

Tad Adcox blew the room to shreds (he even sang!)!

Greg Gerke, you had us at "ma lady"!

Sasha Graybosch showed 'em how to wear cute sandals AND read a great story!

Megan Milks slayed!

After our contest winners, we brought out Toby Bengelsdorf, Quickies! mascot, Fiction at Work editor-in-chief, and author of An Implausibility of Gnus (out now on Another New Calligraphy! $8! So affordable!):

We love him so. 

Thanks to all the contest winners - you were beyond and we are so thrilled to have you as part of the Quickies! family! And thanks to Toby for being a great mascot and not minding when we embarrass him (cough at every single reading cough).

See you in September!

"Lindsay Hunter" is actually spelled K-n-i-g-h-t--R-i-d-e-r

MONDAY NIGHT

Check out our own lovely hostess with the mostess, Lindsay Hunter as she reads as part of the You, Me, Them, Everybody Reading at the Hungry Brain

August 17th

Readings from:
Aaron Cynic
Lindsay Hunter
Andrew Mall
Scott Smith

Hosted by Brandon Wetherbee

Hungry Brain
2319 W Belmont, Chicago, IL
Doors at 8pm, 21+, no cover

zow!

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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

Video famous

Check it out!

Lindsay and Mary were interviewed by the lovely Amy Guth for Chicago SubText!

Watch Mary do her best Urkel impression while Lindsay tosses her hair like she's in a Pantene commercial. We know how to bring it.

Lindsay Hunter & Mary Hamilton at Printers' Ball from Amy Guth on Vimeo.

While you're there, watch the other videos!


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Printers' Ball!

We mentioned before that we're hosting the Chicago reading series face-off at this year's Printers' Ball. Here's some more info:

Printers' Ball 2009

1104 S Wabash, film row cinema stage (8th floor)

9-11pm

Emcees: Mary Hamilton & Lindsay Hunter

5 minute slots (timed Quickies style!)

Featuring readers reppin' the following reading series:

Mental Graffiti

Quickies

Reading Under the Influence

RecRoom

Red Rover

Danny's

Homolatte

Sunday Night Sex Show

2nd Story

Second City Third Person

Ray's

The Encyclopedia Show

We are so excited! And watch out readers, because we're searching high and low for an extra special noisemaker with which to bounce your asses off the stage should you go over 5 minutes.

Bring it!!

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!!

Follow the Dollar Store Tour!

The Dollar Store Tour is in Austin tonight at the Scoot Inn. If you live in Austin, get on down to the show. If you don't live in Austin, or in any of the other cities the tour will stop through, follow it on Twitter! Zach Dodson is tweeting (and tweetpic-ing (?)) here, our beloved Mary is tweeting here, and Blake Butler is tweeting here. Read 'em and join me in my jealous weeping! 

Another New Calligraphy and An Implausibility of Gnus in TimeOut Chicago!!

Read TimeOut Chicago's article on Another New Calligraphy, the press that published Toby Bengelsdorf's book, An Implausibility of Gnus!! So exciting!

CONTEST WINNERS!

Quickies! is excited to announce our contest winners:

Erica Walker Adams

James Adcox

Greg Gerke

Sasha Graybosch

Megan Milks

We reviewed the submissions blindly, compiled our rankings, did the averages, and whatwhat? Winners time! Congrats to the Furious Five--all Quickies! virgins--and come see them read in August! 

Thanks to all who submitted, you are awesome!

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!