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Quarter After Eight is an annual literary journal devoted to the exploration of innovative writing. We celebrate work that directly challenges the conventions of language, style, voice, or idea in literary forms. In its aesthetic commitment to diverse forms, QAE remains a unique publication among contemporary literary magazines. Want to know even more about us? Check out our recent review in The Review Review by Lita A. Kurth.

THE NEW ISSUE

Volume 18

Issue 18
cover-art by Sue Johnson

Featuring work by:

Becky Hagenston
Barrett Warner
Becky Tuch
An interview with Tobias Wolf (by Emily Grekin)
Michelle Menting
Alexander Weinstein
James Tolan
Jackson Bliss
Derek Palacio
Katie Davis
David Kinzer
Bonnie Nadzam
Allison Seay
Sue Johnson
Mark Ehling
Matt Reeck
Cynthia Anne Brandon
Victoria Cho
Rochelle Hurt

The Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest

Prize: $1,000 + Publication


Deadline: Dec. 31, 2013


Congratulations to the 2011 prize-winner, Becky Hagenston, whose piece "Da Do Ron Ron" appears in Volume 18.

More information and how to submit!

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Issue 17

"You shall know us by our velocity: the centrality to me of speed, compression, brevity. The work that I espouse and try to embody is congruent wih the voilent rapidity of contemporary culture."

-David Shields

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