Quick Fiction
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| editor = Jennifer Pieroni
| editor_title = Editor in Chief
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| category = Literary magazine
| frequency = Biannually
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| founded = 2001
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| company = JP Press
| country = United States
| based = Salem, Massachusetts
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| issn = 1543-8376
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Quick Fiction was a contemporary bi-annual literary magazine published in the United States. The journal's publishing focus was on the narrative prose poem/flash fiction, and they proved instrumental in providing both newer and veteran writers the opportunity to showcase their work. Many of the authors published in Quick Fiction were creating new paths in the areas of narrative prose poetry and flash fiction, and the journal was facilitating that exploration. In an interview with a Gazette reporter, Adam Pieroni described the journal's artistic bent, saying they publish mostly magical realism. It was in circulation between 2001 and 2012.
History
Quick Fiction began in 2001 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,{{cite web|title=Quick Fiction|url=http://www.newpages.com/item/5928-quick-fiction|work=New Pages|access-date=November 30, 2015}} as a publishing collaboration between Adam and Jennifer Pieroni.{{cite news|author=Nina Maclaughlin |title=Small packages |url=http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/books/documents/04141917.asp|access-date=November 30, 2015|work=Boston Phoenix|date=September 30, 2004|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010004115/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/books/documents/04141917.asp|archive-date=October 10, 2015 }} Adam was the publisher, while Jennifer was the editor-in-chief. More staff members, including Dana Burchfield, was added to the roster since the journal's inception. The headquarters of the magazine later moved to Salem, Massachusetts.{{cite news|author=Maggi Smith-Dalton|title=Less is more with Salem-based Quick Fiction magazine|url=http://singingstring.org/PDF/Less%20is%20more%20with%20Salem-based%20Quick%20Fiction%20magazine%20Salem,%20MA%20Salem%20Gazette.pdf|access-date=June 28, 2016|work=Town Online|date=July 6, 2007|location=Salem}}
The magazine covered stories and narrative prose poems under 500 words.{{cite web|title=Quick Fiction Issue Two|url=http://www.disticor.com/Client/Disticor/Disticor_LP4W_LND_WebStation.nsf/7550a75e199c70988525732800734173/d798ab7f3eea64bf852573e5007dcd2f!OpenDocument|work=Disticor|access-date=February 4, 2017}} Boston's Weekly Dig, the weekly arts magazine, said Quick Fictionwas “filled with great work from writers who respect the rigid, potentially gorgeous contours of microfiction and have a great deal to say in very little time.”{{cite web|title=About us|work=Quick Fiction|url=http://www.quickfiction.org/about.php|access-date=February 6, 2008}}
Quick Fiction ceased publication in 2012.{{cite news|title=Goddamnit, Quick Fiction Closes?!!! |url=https://pankmagazine.com/2012/02/22/goddamnit-quick-fiction-closes/|access-date=May 5, 2020|work=Pank Magazine |date=February 22, 2012}}
References
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External list
- [http://www.quickfiction.org/ Official site]
Category:2001 establishments in Massachusetts
Category:2012 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Category:Biannual magazines published in the United States
Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 2001