Because we love the challenge at the end of every year to select six of the best pieces we published, we’re thrilled to have nominated the following for the 2022 Best of Small Presses: “from Anaamaki / What Came from Beneath Ground” by Aja Couchois Duncan / watch | read “Grandpa’s Gingerbread Cookies” by Kelechi Read More
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storm market st. march 2, free beer
We’re headed to WeWork Golden Gate on Monday, March 2nd, and hot abomunists do we have a show for you! Melissa Tan Emily Kiernan Emily Drevets L.J. Moore Katie Aliferis Apollo Papafrangou Cassandra Dallett Annelyse Gelman Jessica Hahn Siamak Vossoughi Jeffrey Kingman Sean Taylor curated byAlexandra Kostoulas + Evan Karp (whoever that is), this show: Monday, March Read More
the beast crawl finale
QL returns for the Beast Crawl hat trick: for one and two we did a lil’ something called Random Play… but not this year! Full steam ahead, with sparkle + blink, Lagunitas and everything. The show, curated by Lapo Guzzini, Emma Smith, and Evan Karp, will be at Oakstop, in the third and final leg of the festival. We are proud to be Read More
literary mixtape + analog #qlbooks @ el rio
We’re taking over the patio at El Rio on Tuesday, June 3rd! Come hang out with us. We’ll have typewriters so you can request poems on demand from some of the evening’s readers and perhaps a special guest or two; you’ll also be able to use Quiet Lightning stationary to write your own words (we’re creating stationary just Read More
taking flight for issue #50
Join us at a cruising altitude of 25,000 feet on March 7th to celebrate the publication of our 50th issue of sparkle + blink, held inside the San Francisco Center for the Book. Matt Leibel Monica Mody Chloé Veylit Cosmo Spinosa Moneta Goldsmith Geraldine Kim Lex Kosieradzki RJ Ingram Siamak Vossoughi Tomas Moniz Michael Cooper Read More
between midnight and early morning
monday, feb 3 50 Mason Social House 50 Mason b/w Turk + Eddy Jason File Leigh Lucas Tomas Moniz Tara Rose Julia Jackson Kristina Ten Jeff Von Ward Sarah Carpenter Penina Eilberg-Schwartz Siamak Vossoughi Sarah Bethe Nelson Peter Bullen Rachel Bublitz sparkle + blink cover art by Steven J. Seidenberg first 100 people get a copy Read More
heroes
Kim Addonizio • Faith Adiele • Daniel Alarcón • Nic Alea • Charlie Jane Anders • Tamim Ansary • Sam Barry • Jason Bayani • Lauren Becker • Hugh Behm-Steinberg • Jack Boulware • Lisa Brackmann • Rob Brezsny • Peter Bullen • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Norma Cole • Tom Comitta • Paul Corman-Roberts • Katie Crouch • Cassandra Dallett • Meg Day • Andrew O. Dugas • Tongo Eisen-Martin • Stephen Elliott • Isaac Fitzgerald • Jack + Adelle Foley • Gloria Frym • Charlie Getter • Dana Gioia • Glen David Gold • Kathi Kamen Goldmark • Moneta Goldsmith • Cassandra Gorgeous • Daphne Gottlieb • Steven Gray • Andrew Sean Greer • Graham Gremore • Sarah Griffin • Brenda Read More
lineups for litquake and the conservatory of flowers • submit to labor day, our show with city lights, center for the art of translation
The Greenhouse Effect returns! Monday, August 5th • Conservatory of Flowers Carleen Tibbetts • Paul Corman-Roberts • Peter Bullen • Tory Adkisson • Kara Vernor • Melissa Graeber • Linette Escobar • Tracey Knapp • Molly Giles • Miquila Alejandre • Patrick O’Neil Thanks to everyone who sent us work. We had a difficult time putting these two shows together, as there was a lot of work we wanted to accept but couldn’t. Below you Read More
report from the lab • pushcart nominations • tour through town kickoff show!
Meghan Thornton and SB Stokes put together a gripping show to close out our third year with a tense, gothic, poetry-heavy first set and a fiction-heavy second. It was the first time we ever had a guest curator (SB), and I don’t think Kevin Killian will mind when I report that he called the show “seamless” Read More
Testimonials
Connection. If I had to name one thing that all of us meager human beings are searching for throughout our lives, that is the word that comes to mind: connection. Before Quiet Lightning, I loved to read. I loved to write. I loved to attend literary events. But each time I came away with a Read More