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!

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

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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He dresses like a dapper don, but even in jeans He's a God-sent original, the man of my dreams (TONIGHT)

QUICKIES!
Sausage Fest!

Tuesday, January 13
7:30 pm

The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL


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Put your pants on for SAUSAGE FEST!!!

From New York to Hollywood It's the QUICKIES! Ladies Night and girl the feeling's good

Mark your calendars!

The November 11th Quickies is right around the corner!


Featuring:

Lauren Pretnar

Marisa Plumb

Kelly Xintaris
Amy Stern
Beth Wylder
Erin Teegarden
and Jessi Lee Gaylord

check back for more info on these ladeez.


Quickies! Ladies Night
Tuesday November 11
7:30pm
the Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL


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TONIGHT! The FUNdraiser!

Kyle Beachy

Dave Snyder

Tobias Amidon Benglesdorf

Heidi McKye

Zach Plague

Colt Foutz

James Lower

Jessi Lee Gaylord

Amy Guth

Spencer Dew

Nicolette Bond

Maria Parrott

Jac Jemc

Lauren Pretnar

Ben Tanzer

Sam Reaves

JT Litchfield

Kevin Fink

Amira Hanafi

Lex Sonne

Geoffrey Forsyth

Melanie Datz

Laura Goldstein

Kate Harbaugh

Marissa Plumb

Chris Bower

Jon Fullmer

Steve Tartaglione (tar-tag-lee-oh-knee)

Josh Amidan

Jonathan Messinger



QUICKIES!
55 word extravaganza!
FUNdraiser

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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Might as well face it, you're addicted to QUICKIES!

QUICKIES!
55 Word Bonanza!
Our best and brightest will read 55 word stories in a rapid-fire reading!
Tuesday, October 14
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL



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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night, Tonight there will be no morning star Tonight, tonight, I'll see QUICKIES! tonight.

TONIGHT!

is going to rawk.

Kate Harbaugh
Kevin Fink
Kyle Beachy
Mary Hamilton
Lindsay Hunter
Tobias Amadon Benglesdorf
Jon Fullmer
and Sam Reaves


Quickies!
Tuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas



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Yo VIP let's kick it one time boyeeeee.... All right stop collaborate and listen QUICKIES! is back with a brand new invention.

QUICKIES!

TONIGHT!


featuring:
Elizabeth Crane
Jill Summers
Geoffrey Forsyth
Colt Foutz
James Lower
JT Litchfield
Mary Hamilton
and Lindsay Hunter



August 12
The Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm


And check out a short article about Quickies! here! woot. woot. Thanks Robert!



Bring it.

My-my-my-my music hits me so hard makes me say, Oh my Lord! Thank you, for blessing JT LITCHFIELD with a mind to rhyme and two hype feet.

August 12th reader:

JT LITCHFIELD

Skipped class in high school to read bad fantasy novels.
Attended DePaul University and studied bad English Literature.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans (jeans), boots with the fur (with the fur!). The whole club was lookin' at JAMES LOWER.

August 12th reader:

JAMES LOWER

James Lower should be working on his first short story collection and a memoir about his early childhood. His writing has appeared in the Santa Clara Review and as a Featherproof mini. He hopes it will become increasingly strange that you haven't read his work in the coming decade. Start now at www.jameslower.net.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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Which one, pick one, this one, classic. Red from blonde, yeah COLT FOUTZ is drastic.

August 12th reader:

COLT FOUTZ

Colt Foutz is the recipient of Follett and Getz fellowships in the MFA/MA fiction writing/teaching writing program at Columbia College Chicago. He worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for six years, earning numerous national and state awards for his writing. His nonfiction book, Building the Green Machine, is available now nationwide. Look Colt up on Facebook, MySpace or at the book's site: www.cavaliersbook.com.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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If you havin' girl problems I feel bad for you son. I've got 99 problems, but GEOFFREY FORSYTH ain't one.

August 12th reader:

GEOFFREY FORSYTH

Geoffrey Forsyth is a graduate of The University of Iowa, The University of Vermont, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Other Voices, New Orleans Review, CutBank,RHINO, and several other literary magazines. His story "Mud" appeared in the 2007 Norton Anthology: New Sudden Fiction. His story "Coins" received and Illinois Arts Council Literary Award in 2008. He lives with his wife and two children in La Grange Park, Illinois.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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JILL SUMMERS time....and the livin' is easy....

August 12th reader:

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, This 'Zine Will Change Your Life, and The 2nd Hand and is forthcoming in littleBANG, RAGAD, and Please-Don't. She is the author of two collections of audio shorts, Cohabitation and Les Petites Tristes: Tiny Tales of Woe.

Jill has received the Weisman Grant and an IL Arts Council Literary Award; is a two time Caxton Club Fellow; and was recently awarded a CAAP grant to produce a new collection of audio shorts. Her first play, In the Curious Hold of the Demeter: Count Orlock at Sea, was awarded a Henson Grant to be produced by The Incurable Theater this Fall at the Chicago Cultural Center. You can find her at www.callingallmonkeys.com.

Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm

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Ring the alarm. I been through this too long. I'll be damned if I see another ELIZABETH CRANE on your arm.

August 12th reader:


ELIZABETH CRANE

Elizabeth Crane is the author of three collections of short stories, When the Messenger is Hot, All this Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her work has also been featured in publications including Other Voices, fivechapters, Ecotone, Nerve, Washington Square, New York Stories, Sycamore Review, Mississippi Review, Florida Review, Eclipse, Bridge, Sonora Review, the Chicago Reader, the Believer, McSweeney’s Future Dictionary of America, and several anthologies including The Best Underground Fiction, Loser, and Who Can Save Us Now? Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and she is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. Her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater company, and also been adapted for film. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago. This fall she will be writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
1935 W Thomas
Chicago, IL
7:30pm



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August is going to be a HOT one!

Instructions for happiness:

1) Find your calendar
2) Circle the date: Tuesday, August 12
3) On Tuesday, August 12, make your way to the Innertown Pub at 7:30pm


For the August Quickies will be of Utopian proportions.

Cross my heart and pinkie swear it will be so.


Look who we've got joining us:

JT Litchfield
Jill Summers

Colt Foutz

James Lower
Elizabeth Crane

Geoffrey Forsyth

Stay tuned to this here blog, more info on these fine writers will be up soon.


Quickies!
August 12
Innertown Pub
Chicago, IL
7:30pm


xoxo.




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We want you to be part of our super-awesome plan to take over Chicago

If you were at our first reading, you know how awesome and good-timey Quickies! was/is/shall always be.

If you weren't there, don't think we didn't notice.

We are building our schedule for the next few months, but we're still looking for some lovely and friendly faces to join the reading frenzy that is Quickies!

If you would like to join us on the big stage at Innertown, send an email to quickieschicago(at)gmail(dot)com

Apologies for my crappy punctuation, I'm working on it, I swear.

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Call for Readers

We like short-shorts.

We like flash.

We like quick bursts of good times.

We have no attention span.

Wait, what?

QUICKIES!
a short-short fiction reading series hosted by the fine folks at the Innertown Pub will kick off Tuesday, March 11.

Each reader will get a time limit of 5 minutes to read.

No excerpts, the whole piece should be contained in those five minutes.

If you are interested in joining in the good times and showcasing your flash capabilities, email us at quickieschicago(at)gmail(dot)com

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