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The Quickies! year anniversary show was one of the best! To wit:

Mascot Toby Bengelsdorf

Special guest Kate Harbaugh (we'll miss you!!)

A.D. Jameson

Simon A. Smith

Mary Hamilton

Amy Stern

Lindsay Hunter

Kyle Beachy

Megan Stielstra

This past year has been amazing. Thanks to all of you...



...from both of us.


('scuse the blur. We, like Elizabeth Taylor, need a lot of filters to look so fine on camera.) Mwah.

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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So to you other SIMON A SMITHS all across the land There's no need to argue Parents just don't understand

SIMON A. SMITH

Simon A. Smith is fairly close to receiving his MFA in Language Arts Education. He's also close to finishing the world's most amazing novel of all time. In his spare time he enjoys being humble, drinking scotch and trying to stop thinking about wanting cigarettes. His stories have appeared in Quick Fiction, Opium, Word Riot, Dogzplot, Skive, Storyglossia and blah blah blah...


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


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You know parents are the same No matter time nor place They don't understand that AD JAMESON is going to make some mistakes

AD JAMESON

A D Jameson is a writer, video artist, and performer. Last year he completed both a prose collection, "Amazing Adult Fantasy," and a novel, "Giant Slugs." His writing has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, elimae, and various other journals. Adam's currently working on a second novel and several novellas.


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


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Whatta Mag Whatta Mag Whatta Mag Whatta Mighty Good Lit Mag

SOMNAMBULIST QUARTERLY

Quickies! alum (and inaugural whistlee) Lex Sonne has launched an online lit journal called Somnambulist Quarterly. Based on its extremely solid first issue, the future looks bright for SQ. From the website:

"Somnambulist Quarterly is an online literary magazine based in Chicago. We intend to publish the best literary fiction and poetry from both established and emerging writers. A photo essay will be included in each issue to give the stories and poems some color."

Check it out and submit! Shit is tight.

Ah ssss PUSH IT. PUSH AWP REAL GOOD.

Our severe lateness in putting up this recap post can be explained by the fact that the Quickies! AWP Spectacular blew our minds and we've just waken from the coma. Every. single. reader. was. amazing. To wit:

Mascot Toby Bengelsdorf, reading from the Quickies! Observer

Jac Jemc

Sean Lovelace (we stole this photo from Sean's blog. We were so flabbergasted by his story we forgot to take a picture. But here he is with Kim Chinquee!)

Robert Lopez (we didn't get a picture of him reading, but here's video of him reading. Uh, at a different event. Buy his book.)

Sam Ligon

Blake Butler

Bitchface McGee

Funtimes McGillicuddy

Kim Chinquee

Andrew Richmond

Joe Salvatore (if I had a dime for how many people came up to me to say how much they loved this story, I'd have a shitload of dimes)

Janet Desaulniers

Brian Evenson. Yep.

Seriously. It's great to have our motor skills back, but it was all worth it to be able to witness and be a part of such a lineup. Thanks to all the readers, and thanks to the audience, who braved an extremely crowded sweat lodge in order to hear some great short fiction:







And last but not least, thanks to these guys:



See you in March (our year anniversary)!

Come and give me some of that yum-yum Chocolate chip, honey dip, can I get a scoop? Baby, take a ride in my coupe, you make me wanna...QUICKIES!

QUICKIES!
AWP Spectacular!
THURSDAY, February 12
The Innertown Pub
Chicago
7:30 pm SHARP


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