Open up and say AHHHHHHHH

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub

Featuring:
Amelia Gray
Simon Smith
Steve Tartaglione
Allison Gruber
Lauryn Allison Lewis
Anthony Luebbert
Stephen Tully Dierks
Natalie Edwards
and Samantha Irby



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It's good to be back

QUICKIES!

featuring:

Matt Bell

Elizabeth Ellen

Josh Wiliker

Shane Currie

Andrew Farkas

Kate Harbaugh

Andre Perry

and Dylan Nice

Tuesday, November 9

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

Chicago

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Rose Metal Press: Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest!

Rose Metal Press's Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest submission period begins October 15 and ends December 1, 2010. The 2010 judge will be Kim Chinquee. Our very own Mary Hamilton won last year's contest, so this is one dear to our hearts! Submit, submit, submit and best of luck to all!

Further info from Rose Metal Press:

During the submission period, please email your 25–40 page double-spaced manuscript of short short stories under 1,000 words each to us at rosemetalpress@gmail.com either as Word docs or rtf files. Individual stories may have appeared in journals or anthologies, but we ask that collections as a whole be previously unpublished. Please accompany your entry with the $10 reading fee, either via the payment button on our website or by check. We
prefer the former, but the latter can be sent to PO Box 1956, Brookline, MA 02446.

Writers of both fiction and nonfiction are encouraged to enter, and we are open to short shorts on all subjects and in all styles.

Winner and finalists will be announced by February 2011. The winning chapbook will be published in July 2011 in a limited edition of 300 copies, with an introduction by the contest judge.

Sh-sh-sh-sh-shake your money maker

QUICKIES!

Tuesday, September 14

7:30pm

The Innertown Pub

Chicago

featuring:

Kyle Beachy is trying not to stare. His novel, The Slide, is in stores even as we speak.

Tim Jones-Yelvington is the Lady Gaga of Chicago.

Scott Stealey runs the webzine Please Don't dot com and has work in the 2nd Hand, Smokelong Quarterly, Featherproof Mini-Books, and other places.

Zach Dodson is the co-founder of Featherproof Books and the author of Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring

Jac Jemc's chapbook, This Stranger She'd Invited In, is due out from Greying Ghost Press later this year and her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2012. She blogs regularly at jacjemc.wordpress.com.

Margaret Chapman is a writer and teacher currently residing in South Bend, IN. Her work has appeared in diagram, decomp, the2ndhand, elimae and as a featherproof minibook. According to I Write Like, she write like Steven King.
http://thediagram.com/10_3/

Matt Trupia lives in Chicago and is a member of The Backrow sketch comedy group. He writes for the sporadic website Spider and Bird.

and our mascots Brandon Will and Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf!!!

Scenes from the Quickies! The Gathering Midwest Tour

Quickies! The Gathering was pretty great. I think we all respect, hate, and love each other a million times more than we did before. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us read - we hope you were entertained/enlightened/aroused.

Here are some images from the tour. Enjoy!































It was awesome. Ask us about Iowa City.

Can't be tamed

DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN

Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and the author and editor of eight books, including the new novel Drain (Northwestern). His creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, and Exquisite Corpse. He is Chair of the English Department at Lake Forest College, and also Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books. He edits The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing. He can be found, virtually, atdavisschneiderman.com/

ALEX BONNER

Alex Bonner spent half his life in Chicago and the other half in North Carolina making him somewhere between a Midwestern meathead and a dirty southerner. He has been a featured reader in Chicago for several years and last year won the Windy City Storyslam and the National Storyslam Audience Choice Award. He thinks gallows humor is the only humor..

JASON BREDLE

Jason Bredle is the author of three books and three chapbooks, most recently Smiles of the Unstoppable and The Book of Evil. He lives in Chicago.

CHRIS BOWER

Chris Bower hosts the Ray's Tap Reading Series in Avondale and puts up plays around the city. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various suspect places throughout the years. His newest play written with Tim Racine is, "Correspondance: A Ballet (of Communication); No Dancing (!?!) or Let's Not And Say We Did" is playing at the Side Project in Rogers Park through Saturday July, 17th at 9 PM. Visit his website, holdmyhorses.com for more.

JILL SUMMERS

Jill's work can be heard with increasing infrequency on Chicago Public Radio and has appeared in Stop Smiling, Ninth Letter, VAIN, and MAKE magazines among others. She is one of the organizers of and hopes everyone will attend the 6th annual Printers' Ball, upcoming on July 30. You can find her online at www.callingallmonkeys.com.

JAMES TADD ADCOX

James Tadd Adcox is the editor of Artifice Magazine (www.artificemag.com). He has work published or forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, Requited, and PANK, among other places. He lives in Chicago.

DEVIN KING

Devin King lives and works in Chicago. His book Clops is out from the Green Lantern Press.

BARRY GRAHAM

Barry Graham teaches writing at Rutgers University and he wrote the National Virginity Pledge. His fiction can be found most recently in the Los Angeles Review and Quick Fiction. Look for him online at www.dogzplot.com

ELIZABETH ELLEN

Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press). She lives in Ann Arbor where she runs the Great Lakes, Great Times reading series.

OWEN EGERTON

Owen Egerton is the author of several books and screenplays. His most recent novel, The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God was released this summer and is receiving some rave reviews. He lives in Austin, Texas where he was voted the city's most popular writer in 2007 and 2008.

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AND THE READERS GOT SWAGGER

The May Quickies! was a hell of a show, Dad. Hell of a show!

Matt Trupia!

Amanda Marbais!

Natalie Edwards!

Sam Pink!

Jonathan Messinger!

Sara Levine!

All the readers had the place giggling and sometimes guffawing. Thanks to these great writers for participating!

See you July 13!!

TEASER: SAM PINK

sam pink lives in chicago. he wrote "i am going to clone myself then kill the clone and eat it" (paperhero press 09), "frowns need friends too" (afterbirth books 2010) and "the self esteem holocaust comes home" (six gallery press 2010). visit him at impersonalelectroniccommunication.com.

Yes please.

See him live at Quickies! May 11!

TEASER: JONATHAN MESSINGER

Jonathan Messinger is the books editor for Time Out Chicago, and co-founder of Featherproof Books. He's also the author of Hiding Out, and is at work on Hiding Out 2: Hiding In and Hiding Out 3: Don't Stop Hiding.

This is a gooder.

See him live at Quickies! May 11!

TEASER: SARA LEVINE

Sara Levine's always short writing has appeared in Nerve, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, and many other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, and her essays have been anthologized in Best of Fence and The Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present. She is Chair of the Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Oh dip. Read this one.

See her live at Quickies! May 11!