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Quick Fiction 13 features stories of 500 words or less by Claudia Smith, Matthew Salesses,  Aimee Pokwatka, Mark Yakich, James Grinwis, and many others. Read an excerpt below or get it here.

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Jennifer Pieroni

Statistically speaking, if you’re going to pick up a random back issue of Quick Fiction you have a 38 percent chance of getting wowed by Kim Chinquee’s incredible talent. Her work has appeared in five issues (6, 7, 9, 12, 13) of Quick Fiction and in over a hundred other journals, ... Full Story, Comments (2)

Thomas Hopkins

Many wring their hands over the fate of the physical book, today’s threats to literary culture, but who remembers the various and sundry dangers posed to our libraries of yesteryear? Sheets of white paper pressed from wood pulp or cotton, printed with sequences of letters in neat and ... Full Story

Groove [FICTION]

Claudia Smith

Someone gave them a blender after they got married in Vegas; the blender made them both happy, because it was fancy and probably cost more than all their garage-sale clothes and furniture combined. In the mornings, she made smoothies. She bought the fruits she grew up with but were harder to ... Full Story, Comments (2)

Big Water [EXCERPT]

James Grinwis

After assembling and putting on most of my own equipment, I coaxed the dog from cowering in the hold with a bowl of bacon and latched the buoyancy compensator, balloon mask, and fins to his trembling frame. “Don’t worry, Kip,” I encouraged, “the first step is always the ... Full Story

Jennifer Pieroni

A Bunch of People Got Lucky with Quick Fiction at the latest installment of the Dirty Water Reading Series. Sponsored by Quick Fiction, Redivider, Fringe, and Black Ocean, the Dirty Water Reading Series is held quarterly at Grub Street HQ. On Sunday March 16 the editors hosted Get Lucky, a St. ... Full Story

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Events

The Dire Literary Series is hosting Amy L. Clark on July 11 at Out of the Blue for a BBQ at 6, music at 7, and readings at 8. Hope to see you there!

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News

Brian Foley's chapbook The Tornado is Not a Surrealist is now available from The Greying Ghost Press. Hooray!!!

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One of our favorite stories from Issue 5, "A Heard of Wild Donut Holes" by Greg Bachar, has been anthologized in The Long Meanwhile: Stories of Arrival and Departure (Hourglass Books).

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Quick Fiction has caught the social-networking bug and now exists on Facebook. Friend us.

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Pedro Ponce's Superstitions of Apartment Life has won the Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition and will be published this summer by Burnside Review Press. The judge was Aimee Bender, who called the chapbook “smart, lively, funny, distinct.”

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What was once no longer than 500 words is now a novel. Jonathan Evison's All About Lulu is available for pre-order.

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An interview with Quick Fiction's editor in chief on Wigleaf.

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The latest from Rose Metal Press, a collection of work by our friends Kathy Fish, Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, and Claudia Smith with an introduction by Pia Ehrhardt.

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