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Dirty Water Reading Series: March 16, 2008
by Jennifer Pieroni
03/17/08
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. Pattys Day Themed reading ... more »
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Quick Fiction and Ballyhoo Stories Get on the Map at AWP
03/07/07
The editors all made it to Atlanta for a very literary time at the 2007 Associated Writing Programs Conference. Quick Fiction and Ballyhoo Stories joined forces not only to cover for each other when we wanted to go for a glass of water, but also on a special writing challenge open to everybody at the ... more »
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Dysfunctional Family Holidays
by Steve Almond
12/12/06
As part of our recent “Dysfunctional Family Holiday Reading” at Grub Street in Boston, Steve Almond performed a stunning mad-lib-mangled rendition of a popular holiday classic, with creative word replacement provided by members of the audience, which may or may not have been influenced by the spiked eggnog reportedly on hand. more »
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Quick Fiction Took New York: But This Story Has a Happy Ending
06/12/06
This weekend, Quick Fiction slithered into New York with the ferocity of a freshly molted albino python (trust us, they’re mean). Wrapping ourselves around the Empire State Building, our strategy was soon fated. With precision and speed we struck the Happy Ending Lounge in Chinatown for a Legion of Lit Mags reading. The staff at ... more »
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Literary Death Match III: Thomas Hopkins Sees Red
05/24/06
On Monday May 22, [p2p type="slug" value="thomas-israel-hopkins"] a Quick Fiction contributor, represented the magazine at Literary Death Match III at the Back Room in New York City, organized by our friends at Opium Magazine and Sweet Fancy Moses. In Round One (judged on writing quality, performance, and “intangibles”), Thomas competed against Andy Horwitz (Nerve.com) and was victorious. ... more »