Our 2024 cover model needs a name! Please leave your suggestion in a comment. Art by Pam Mayer. Last year’s winning name was Leonie Peony. Winner gets a free new issue, plus QAE swag.

And the winner is…Foxsimile!

2/8, 8 pm, N. Kansas City's 🌈Big Rip Brewing's Cabin in the Woods space. Emcee: QAE poetry editor Austin Tucker. Beer (NA too) on tap! Pop-up hot dog (v & gf options) situation! Preceded from 6-8 by New Ohio Review’s reading! 1-stop, 2-reading, super-litty evening. 🦊 #awp2024

Surreal to see my name alongside such amazing writers. Can’t wait to read with y’all in KC 😎

Today's Poetry Thread: HEARTBREAK Feel free to add poems.

Proofs approved! 30 years of Quarter After Eight 🦊🎈🎈🎈x 🔟!

Updated slate! 2/8, 8 pm, N. Kansas City's Big Rip Brewing's🌈 Cabin in the Woods event space. Emcee'd by Austin Tucker. Stellar writers reading! Beers (incl NA) on tap! Hot dogs (w/vegan & gf options)! Preceded by New Ohio Review reading! 🦊 Come meet Foxsimile. #awp2024

Excited to announce that my third full-length poetry collection “Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man” was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2023 Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published by Red Hen Press next year!🎉🎉🎉

P’tit Gaston, Léonie Peony, and Foxsimile are looking forward to tomorrow! #1504 #AWP2024

I’m at @QuarterAfterEight and New Ohio Review booth! Doing a book signing! I also just signed copies of Quarter After Eight’s Issue 29 which I am in! Please stop by, friends! I’m the girl in the psychedelic kimono with killer sleeves! 😊💚✨ #AWP24 #WritingCommunity #BookSigning

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It was amazing!

It’s wild seeing this little water bill I made now in a physical book and then also being Invited to my first reading with amazing writers and poets was surreal to me! Thank you Quarter After Eight for letting me apart of a wonderful experience at AWP! 💖 @QuarterAfterEight #AWP2024

AWP24 words of affirmation I’ll always remember: 💚@candacewalsh asking me if I had done theater after my reading with @QuarterAfterEight x New Ohio Review. 💚Ruth Joffre saying I had Dolly vibes, a few of y’all said this.😅 💚Some loves yelling “Yassss Little Bo Peep” on Friday. 🤭💕

Throw your voting weight behind co-editor Candace Walsh’s essay in March Second Chanceness 2025 marchxness.com/1strd-madonnav… Nina Simone, Sinnerman, Felix da Housecat remix!

Our always fee-free general submission window closes in just a few days: April 15. Send us your prose, poetry, and hybrid work! We reopen October 1.

Next Wednesday! @zoebossiere ABRAMS Books @OhioUnivPress OHIO Alumni OhioULibraries

Submit! 2nd annual chapbook contest judged by Hieu Minh Nguyen $1000 prize and publication of your chapbook. quarteraftereight.submittable.com/submit?fbclid=…