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QUARTER AFTER EIGHT

A JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

Issue 10
The publication of this journal is made possible in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

The editors also wish to thank the following people and institutions: Robert DeMott, Marsha Dutton, Roderick McDavis, Daphne Metts, Joseph McLaughlin, and Dinty Moore. Special thanks to the Creative Writing Program and Department of English Department at Ohio University for their extraordinary support in recent years.>>>

SUBMISSIONS

Quarter After Eight only accept online submissions, unless you are entering the short prose contest, in which case you shoudl send your work by mail. Click here to submit online.

ROBERT J. DEMOTT SHORT PROSE CONTEST

Congratulations to the 2010 prize-winner, Mark Ehling, whose piece "Very Soon" appears in Volume 17.

Details for the 2011 Contest:
PRIZE: $1,000 + Publication
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2011

Submit your prose-poem, short-short fiction, essay-in-brief, etc. of 500 words of fewer. Include a title page with your name, address, phone number, and the title of your submission(s). The reading fee is $15 for three pieces and includes a complimentary one-year subscription to the journal. Please make checks payable to Quarter After Eight.

Mail entries to: Quarter After Eight / Ohio University / 360 Ellis Hall / Athens, OH 45701

QAE Mission and Aesthetic

Quarter After Eight is an annual literary journal devoted to the exploration of experimental writing in all its permutations. Confronting both the margins and middle, QAE believes that much of today's most signiificant writing is dedicating to blurring the traditional lines of prose and verse. QAE is committed to publishing fiction, prose poetry, lineated innovations, sudden fiction, creative and critical nonfiction, interviews, reviews, letters, memoirs, translations, dramas, and less defined forms of prose from new and established writers.

FORMATTING

Please send no more than 3 short works or 1 longer work.
Double space prose longer than a page.
Make sure your name and email address appear on every page of your submission(s).
Find more directions about submitting on the submission manager homepage.

VOLUME 16

"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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Quarter After Eight has published notable writers including David Shields, Steven Millhauser, John D'Agata, Lia Purpura, Mary Ruefle, Susan Stewart, John Gallaher, Nin Andrews, Joe Bonomo, Amy Newman, Virgil Suarez, and many, many others. >>>