Painted Bride Quarterly

News & Events

PBQ Intern’s First Time at AWP!

by

As an AWP virgin, my first time at the conference was practically pain-free. Another Painted Bride intern and I picked up the 6th Annual Print of Painted Bride Quarterly straight from the printing center, packed up the car, and hit the road.

Jill Birdsall Awarded Gertrude Stein Award

by

Jill Birdsall’s short story “Oker’s Pond,” part of her most recent collection, appears in Painted Bride Quarterly Print 6 as a part of Issue 85: Displacement, (which will be back-up online again shortly). We are pleased to announce that another story from the same collection has just been awarded first prize in the Gertrude Stein Award

AWP Postscript

by

Here’s the trouble with Associated Writing Program’s Annual Conference: It ends.
It ends, and then we are left to process everything we learned, remember every moment that blew us away, hang on to all of those words.

We’re Going to Boston for AWP!

by

Come see Painted Bride Quarterly at Booth 1209 during the AWP Conference! Our staff will be available for photographs and discussions! Gain bragging rights and be the first to buy our hot-off-the-printers Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual 6. We will also be selling our previous issues, magnets, stickers, and enough swag to make your literary friends jealous!

Literary Long Island Iced Tea: Perch Pub Recap

by

Perch Pub on Tuesday, December 11 was like some kind of awesome literary buffet! Or like a ridiculous literary Long Island iced tea! Or like, maybe it was like, an anthology that doesn’t exist! Tamara Oakman, Debra Leigh Scott, and Warren Longmire brought their best to the table (well, ok, there wasn’t a table there was just a mic—that didn’t work, but it was ok…