Category: lit journals

  • Hot Air Balloon Duels! Space Drinks! Junk Drawers! The Antelope Release Party at Quimby’s 9/8

    Stop by Quimby’s on September 8th at 7pm to check out the release party of your new favorite journal of oral history and mayhem, The Antelope. Co-founders Elisa Shoenberger and Meghan McGrath have put together a great issue, featuring falconers, beekeepers, swashbuckling Frenchmen, drone hobbyists, space-themed drink recipes, artifacts of early flight, comics, poetry, blimp disasters, and more. This event will include a reading from contributor and fancy sweater-wearer Joe Mason, sharing tales of never-ending sushi, and at least one hot balloon duel. Eric Bartholomew’s famous Junk Drawer zine will make a special appearance, with historical Chicago artifacts galore.

    “Elisa and Meghan are quirky and fun scholars interested in oral history and mayhem, and they’ve edited a wonderful magazine.” Quimbys.com

    Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer who has written for the Boston Globe, Hello Giggles, City Creatures Blog, Curbed Chicago, and others. Meghan McGrath is a wombat enthusiast, community radio DJ, and security ethnographer based in New York.

    For more info:
    antelopemagazine.com
    Facebook event invite for this event
    The Antelope in the Quimby’s on-line store
    theantelopemagazine(at)gmail(dot)com

    Saturday, September 8th, 7pm – Free Event

     

  • Zizobotchi Rises at Quimby's: Selected Readings from Volume 2 on Friday, March 2nd

    Join us for a night of selected readings from Zizobotchi Papers: volume 2, fall, 2017.

    Zizobotchi Papers is a literary journal dedicated to the novella. Think double feature, with a paperback spine instead of a marquee.

    Jeff Phillips will read from his latest novella, God’s Least Likely to Succeed, about the derailing of a secret agent’s first day on the job by an ancient cult’s infiltration of their operation.

    Erin Makowski will read from Dan MacRae’s latest novella, The Dollmaker’s Grin, where an altercation changes a shuttle bus driver’s life, for better, and for much much worse.

    Copies of the book will be for sale for $13.

    Find out more about Zizobotchi Papers on the web at Zizobotchi.com

    Jeff Phillips is a washed up varsity cross country skier and storefront theatre method actor. For two years he was co-host of The Liquid Burning, an apocalypse themed reading series, and for just shy of three years, he co-hosted the Chicago reading series Pungent Parlour. His short fiction has appeared in Seeding Meat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Metazen, Chicago Literati, and Literary Orphans. He is the co-founder of Zizobotchi Papers, a literary journal dedicated to the novella and a regular contributor of short stories and essays at the site Drinkers With Writing Problems. You can find him on Twitter as @TheIglooOven or at theotherauthorjeffphillips.com

    Erin Makowski has been acting and singing since her childhood. Her first production was as Gretel in ‘The Sound of Music’. Most of her younger years were spent in the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso going from the high seas in ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ to a little maid in school in Mikado. After her early schooling in the theater Erin received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College right here in Chicago. Erin has worked with many companies in town, played extras on TV and sung her heart out for Cabaret audiences.

    Fri, March 2nd, 7pm – Free Event

    Click here to see the Facebook invite for this event.

  • Oyez Review Issue 42 Launch Reading Featuring Donna Vorreyer& Friends 3/20

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    The Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s award-winning literary journal, has been in publication for over forty years. Among other readers relevant to issue #42, Donna Vorreyer will read a selection of her poems including “Compline with a Dream of Folded Arms,” which is also featured in this issue.

    Donna Vorreyer is the author of A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as six chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbook (released in April 2015). She has been a repeat nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as Sugar House Review, Sou’wester, Rhino, Linebreak, and Cider Press Review. She is an assistant poetry editor for Extract(s), and her second collection is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2016.

    For more info:

    oyezreview.wordpress.com

    donnavorreyer.com

    facebook event post for this event.

    oyezreview(at)roosevelt(dot)edu

    Friday, March 20, 7pm – Free EventDonna Vorreyer author photo

  • Jeff Phillips and Jordan Hoisington Read From Zizobotchi Papers vol 1 2/27

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    Zizobotchi Papers: volume 1, winter, 2015 (Baker & Brady), is the premier issue of a journal dedicated to the novella. Jeff Phillips and Daniel Gerald Mac Rae, who previously collaborated together at Three Leaves Theatre on a variety of stage productions, have teamed up again to launch a publication to highlight one of their favorite forms, the novella. Jeff and Dan are the guinea pigs on volume 1.

     

    The first issue of the Zizobotchi Papers features Proboiotic Hot Sauce by Jeff Phillips, and Chainsaw Guy by Daniel Gerald Mac Rae. Probiotic follows the character Sloan Doan as he returns to Chicago after a falling out with his family to stay with an eccentric dancer, Libby. They attend a warehouse party where a food competition reveals a cast of characters as mysterious as the place itself. Chainsaw makes us witness to a party that escalates into bedlam for Dale, leaving him – and his Honda – vulnerable to the whims of a psychopath.

     

    Jeff Phillips’ short fiction has appeared in Seeding Meat, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Metazen, Chicago Literati and Literary Orphans. has written two full-length plays Magnets and Division & Shame. His first published novella is Chainsaw Guy. Actor Jordan Hoisington has appeared in the play Magnets by Zizobotchi Papers’ featured writer Daniel Gerald Mac Rae, and will read Rae’s work.

    Friday, February 27th, 7pm

    Free Event

    For more info: bakerandbrady.com or bakerandbrady(at)gmail(dot)com

    Click here for the Facebook event link.

  • New Online Literary Journal, Goreyesque, Seeking Submissions

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    Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Creative Writing is launching a new online literary journal, Goreyesque (www.goreyesque.com), now open for submissions. (And no, you don’t have to be a student at Columbia to submit your work).

    Both an homage and showcase of contemporary artists and storytellers inspired by Edward Gorey’s lasting influence across genres, Goreyesque seeks works that are darkly humorous, surreal, playful, and anything in between. Short stories, essays, poems, illustrations, video/animation and other forms of art all welcome. Original work preferred but reprints that fit the project’s scope also appreciated (see submission guidelines). Work can be sent to: goreysubmissions(at)gmail(dot)com.

    The launch of Goreyesque coincides with the Chicago debut of Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey and G is for Gorey—C is for Chicago: The Collection of Thomas Michalak, at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Feb. 15 – Jun. 15. While Elegant Enigmas has traveled the country since 2009, the companion exhibition G is for Gorey provides an even closer in-depth look at Gorey’s legacy, including his illustrations for book jackets and magazine articles, and his life and work on Cape Cod.

    Gorey’s artwork returns to his home town for the first time with this special exhibition and reading/performance showcase, so writers and artists should be sure to send Gorey-inspired work soon! All works submitted before Apr. 14 will be considered for a public reading and showcase at LUMA’s gallery space in Chicago on Apr. 29. Top 5 submissions will also receive the exhibition catalogue Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey.

    Special guest judges for the reading: Sam Weller, author of The Bradbury Chronicles, and Mort Castle, author of Bram Stoker award-winning New Moon on the Water. Both served as co-editors of Stoker award-winning Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury.

    For more info, contact Todd Summar at goreysubmissions@gmail.com

  • Off-Site: POP-UP BOOK FAIR, Sunday, July 7th at The Empty Bottle

    POP-UP-BOOKS-624x794Sunday (July 7th) at The Empty Bottle is POP-UP BOOK FAIR! Beginning at 12:30pm and going until 5pm, join Curbside Splendor Publishing as they play host to 40+ small indie presses and publishers. The event is FREE with RSVP if you click here, and it’s $5 at the door. It is a 21+ event, so all minors must be accompanied. There will be live music provided by  Nagasaki, DJ Goldie Bear, DJ “2nd Cousin, Twice Removed”, DJ Kale Party, DJ Heavy Inspinuation, KRUBREDNUF, and DJ DG.

    Featured purveyors include:

    2nd Story
    7 Vientos
    826chi
    Another Chicago Magazine
    Artifice Mag
    Black Ocean
    Burial Day Books
    Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
    Chicago Zine Fest
    chicagopoetry.com
    co•im•press
    Convulsive Editions
    Criminal Class Press
    Curbside Splendor Publishing
    Dream of Things
    Fifth Star Press
    Haymarket Books
    Kenning Editions
    Knee Jerk Magazine
    Labletter
    Love Symbol Press
    Mid American Review
    Miss Nyet
    Monsters & Dust
    Moon City Review
    New American Press
    Orange Alert
    Quimby’s
    READ/WRITE
    Rhino Poetry
    Richochet Review
    Rose Metal Press
    Soberscove
    Solace in So Many Words
    South Loop Review
    Switchback Books
    THE 2ND HAND
    Tortoise Books
    & MORE

    Please note this event IS NOT at Quimby’s. It is at The Empty Bottle which is at 1035 N. Western Ave.  Chicago, IL 60647.

  • Oyez Review Celebrates 40th Anniversary 4/12

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    Don’t miss The Oyez Review celebrating its fortieth issue with Katherine May Copenhaver and other Contributors.

    Oyez Review, Roosevelt University’s award-winning literary magazine, is edited and produced by MFA candidates in the Literary Magazine Internship course. Each issue includes poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction from the best writers across the nation. Oyez Review’s most recent issue marks forty years of continuous publication. Oyez Review has featured work by such writers as Charles Bukowski, James McManus, Carla Panciera, Michael Onofrey, Tim Foley, John N. Miller, Gary Fincke, and Barry Silesky, and visual artists Thomas C. Jackson, Steve Harp, Vivian Nunley, C. Taylor, Jennifer Troyer, and Frank Spidale.

    Oyez Review’s fortieth anniversary issue includes for the first time ever color artwork by acclaimed Chicago artist Chuck Jones.

    Katherine May Copenhaver has lived in the Chicago area most of her life. She holds a BA in English from University of Iowa and an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She makes a living as a writer, editor, and teacher of writing.

    For more info: oyezreview.wordpress.com

    Or contact Janet Wondra at jwondra@roosevelt.edu

    Friday, April 12th, 7pm – Free Event

  • Pop-Up Book Fair at the Empty Bottle 12/9 2pm-7pm

    In conjunction with Chicago Writers House and The Chicagoan, Curbside Splendor Publishing presents:

    A POP-UP BOOK FAIR!

    Chicago’s finest independent publishers will be on hand hocking their goods. Quimby’s Bookstore will also stock a table with a selection of books/zines penned by Chicagoans. The bar will be open so grab a cocktail and listen to live music all afternoon as you ogle some books and satiate your bibliophiliac needs!

    FREE with an RSVP at:

    http://www.emptybottle.com/show/3188944/

    Otherwise $5 at the door.

    This tasty event is 21+ unless minors are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

    Current list of participating Chicago literary folks (check the Facebook Event Page for constant updates) :
    &Now Books
    7 Vientos
    826chi
    Allium Press
    Anobium Literary Magazine
    Another Chicago Magazine
    ANTIBOOKCLUB
    Anything Goes Publishing
    Artifice
    Burial Day Books
    Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (CCLaP)
    Chicago Zine Fest
    contratiempo
    Convulsive Editions
    Curbside Splendor Publishing
    Dancing Girl Press
    Dream of Things
    Graze Magazine
    The Handshake
    Kenning Editions
    MAKE Magazine
    Other Voices (OV) Books
    Quimby’s Books
    Solace in So Many Words
    Switchback Books
    Two With Water

    Sweet Tunes provided by:
    Good Evening
    Mr. Mayor and the Highballers
    Wooden Wing
    & more!

    Please note: This event is NOT at Quimby’s. It is at the Empty Bottle at 1035 N. Western Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60622.

    Click here to go to the Facebook event page for this event.

  • Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition

    Kick-off your Halloween weekend with the Logan Square Literary Review Reads: Halloween Edition! Grab your pumpkin beers and trick-or-treat bags and prepare yourself for the spooky, scary and creepy as read by: Lara Levitan, Michael McCauley, Alicia Hilton and others!

    The Logan Square Literary Review is a not-for-profit quarterly journal based in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, IL. This publication aims to facilitate expression and add to the thriving community of arts and ideas in Logan Square. The Logan Square Literary Review is dependent upon submissions from the public. This event is to celebrate issue VIII Fall 2011.

    Long live 60647!

  • The CWG Presents: Prompts/Prompted Here at Quimby's 9/23

    The Creative Writing Guild presents it’s latest publication, Prompts/Prompted. The dual issue is a compilation of instructions for experimental writing, and the CWG’s own written results. Five CWG contributors will read selections from the books, explain instructions, and share recent summer writing. Bring a pen and paper.

    The Creative Writing Guild aims to share experimental and traditional writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago writing community.

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    Fri, Sep 23rd, 7pm