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
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AWP Postscript
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!
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!
Why Wait for Saint Patrick? Come to Perch Pub on March 12
Kevin Varrone’s most recent publications include Eephus (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012), and Passyunk Lost and The Philadelphia Experiments (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Boxscore: An Autobiography, a poem sequence about baseball, history, and Philadelphia, is due out as a…
Slam Bam Thank You Ma’am: Huge Success!
PBQ’s first Slam Bam Thank You Ma’am of 2013 was a huge success! Held on January 24th, everyone met the New Year with vigor. The rules of the Slam are still simple: Write until you win, drink until you win, and when you do win, be aware …
Literary Long Island Iced Tea: Perch Pub Recap
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…
The Last Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am of 2012
On November 29, Painted Bride Quarterly hosted the last Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am of 2012! For the first time, the Slam was held on the FIFTH Thursday of the month, which guaranteed a spectacular night. And spectacular it was! Andrew Keller hosted for a second time, the audience was particularly rowdy…
Perch Pub brings out AWP’s Best
Our Perch Pub reading on Tuesday, November 13, made us feel a bit like we had fallen down the Pub’s spiral staircase rather than walked up it—so many people we normally only see at AWP were there!!! Thank God Perch Pub has windows on the Avenue of the Arts, or we would’ve thought we weren’t in Philadelphia anymore!
Andrew Keller rocks October Slam, Bam
With all the paper skeleton decorations on the walls contorted into different sex positions it was already set that the Slam on October 25th was going to have some of the subtle oddities that the season brings. Senior Editor of PBQ and guitarist in the band Hermit Thrushes, Andrew Keller…
Literary Death Match: Laughter and Literary Hilarity
On October 17, the comedic, competitive reading series that is Literary Death Match came to Philadelphia for the fourth time. As always, the night was full of laughter and literary hilarity. Judges were comedian Carolyn Busa (co-host of Laughs on Fairmount, voted Philly’s Best Open Mic), Philadelphia Tribune’s lifestyle reporter Bobbi Booker, and one of Philly’s finest storytellers (and playwrights and teaching artists) R. Eric Thomas.