News Brian Foley's chapbook The Tornado is Not a Surrealist is now available from The Greying Ghost Press. Hooray!!!
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). Quick Fiction has caught the social-networking bug and now exists on Facebook. Friend us. 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.” What was once no longer than 500 words is now a novel. Jonathan Evison's All About Lulu is available for pre-order. An interview with Quick Fiction's editor in chief on Wigleaf.
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.
The publishers of Quick Fiction have plans to open a new creative writing center in Salem called The Parlor. If you're a resident of the North Shore of Massachusetts, we hope you will fill out our survey to assess community interest! Also Recommended: Kim Chinquee's Oh, Baby Get Peter Conners' Of Whiskey and Winter here.
Our friends at Rose Metal Press are reading for their 2nd annual short short chapbook contest.
Quick Fiction is featured in this week's Salem Gazette. Read the article here.
Does everyone know about Opium Magazine's 500 Word Memoir Contest judged by Daniel Handler? Pia Z. Ehrhardt's, Famous Fathers and Other Stories, is delightful. Get it here.
Susan Woodring's first novel, The Traveling Disease, will be released in September. Check it out here. Anthony Tognazzini's new book, I Carry a Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such as These, is available here. Quick Fiction on MySpace? Yes, it's true! Befriend us.
Andrew Michael Roberts' chapbook, Give Up, is available! Rose Metal Press is running a contest for chapbooks of short short fiction judged by Ron Carlson. Submit! Deadline: December 1.
Brian McMullen has a challenge for you! A Greeting Card Caption Challenge!
Our thanks goes to the 230 people who participated our reader survey this summer. Your feedback is valuable to us. The Sonora Review has announced the 2006 Short-Short Story Contest judged by Steve Almond. Deadline: December 1. Doug Martin interviewed Kim Chinquee on flashes for his new journal, Snowvigate. It's not you--it's us. We've changed! For the better, of course. We hope you'll find our new web design more accommodating for your eyes and brain. Please look around and let us know what you think. We hear rumors -- these guys are Pushcart winners! Kim Chinquee and David Schuman. Regular Quick Fiction contributor Steve Almond has resigned his post at Boston College in protest of Condoleezza Rice's upcoming commencement speech there. Read his open letter in the Boston Globe here. Pia Z. Ehrhardt's work is finalist for StorySouth’s 2006 Million Writers Award. Congratulations Pia! Ken Calhoun recently won the Italo Calvino prize. Congratulations, Ken! David Gianatasio's new book Swift Kicks is just out from So New Media. Artvoice recently profiled two Quick Fiction contributors, James Grinwis [bio, book] and Kim Chinquee [bio]. Stories by Dan Kaplan, Gary Wilson, and Don Shea have been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology, Flash Fiction Forward, edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. Congratulations to all! The Starcherone Press anthology PP/FF: An Anthology edited by Peter Conners will be released March. | | Events 2/27-3/3 Meet Quick Fiction at the AWP bookfair! 3/10 Quick Fiction Reading at Feed Your Head Books 2:00
3/12 Big Party to Celebrate Small Press Month! Great Scott in Allston. Starts @ 6 Spring Fever at Grub St (160 Bolyston St., Boston) @ 7pm. Readings by Peter Jay Shippy, Sarah Sweeney, Megan Bedford, and Elisa Gabbert. Issue 11 Release Party. Saturday, May 26 @ 7:00 p.m. Author readings by Jake Ruiter, Mary Beth Caschetta, and Andrew Michael Roberts. Music by Jeremy McKeen of Ulysses. Beer, wine, and goodies! Feed Your Head Books, 272 Essex Salem MA (directions).
The Dirty Water Reading Series presents Keggers and Cliffnotes at Grub Street HQ on September 23 at 7 pm. Brian Foley will read for Quick Fiction. 10/23 Opium's Literary Death Match at The Kitching. Including Pedro Ponce representing Quick Fiction. $7 entry fee gets you a free copy of Opium5: Bad Company.7 p.m., 512 W. 19th St. (@10th Ave.). Quick Fiction + Chip Cheek will be at AWP (table 281 compliments of Redivider, who we can't thank enough). Stop by and say hi! The Dirty Water Reading Series presents Get Lucky at Grub Street HQ on March 16 at 7 pm. featuring mad-libs of famous Irish writers and short readings by Sommer Browning, Steve Himmer, Felicia C. Sullivan, and Quick Fiction's Nina MacLaughlin. Quick Fiction and NOÖ Journal are hosting a Book B Que on June 23 at Brookline Booksmith. Myfanwy Collins will represent the journal. Food at 6:30. Readings begin at 7. 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! |
