The Quotable

07/12/2017

Issue 21: Finale is now available. Order your digital or print copy today!
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01/05/2017

Issue 20: Pleasure or Pain is now available. Order your digital or print copy today!
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10/19/2016

In Praise of the Packrat Today’s guest post is by Ann Hillesland, whose short story “After Waking” appears in Issue #18 of The Quotable. I’m a bit of a packrat. For example, I have over fifty hats, most of them vintage, many of them unworn by me. I have enough bone china teacups (packed in a snowstorm of tissue paper) for a large tea party. [ 424 more words ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/in-praise-of-the-packrat

In Praise of the Packrat Today’s guest post is by Ann Hillesland, whose short story “After Waking” appears in Issue #18 of The Quotable. I’m a bit of a packrat. For example, I have over fifty hats, most of them vintage, many of them unworn by me. I have enough bone china teacups (packed in …

04/01/2016

Today is the last day to submit your short stories and poetry to The Quotable for our final issue: https://thequotablelit.submittable.com/submit

Issue 21: FinaleSubmissions open February 1, 2016 – April 1, 2016 General Guidelines: We seek: flash fiction (under 1,000 words) - 1 submission per reading period short fiction (under 3,000 words) - 1 submission per reading period creative nonfiction (under 3,000 words) - 1 submission per reading p…

02/21/2016

Today's blog comes from The Quotable Issue:19 contributor, Embe Charpentier. It wasn’t such a long time ago that skeptics doubted a great story could be told in one hundred words. Nowadays, one look at Drabble and 101 Word Stories will refute that claim. How about the 140-character story, a tale the length of a tweet? Can art fit on the online equivalent of a Post-it note? [ 396 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/postcard-promises-the-rise-of-flash-fiction

Today’s blog comes from The Quotable Issue:19 contributor, Embe Charpentier. It wasn’t such a long time ago that skeptics doubted a great story could be told in one hundred words. Nowadays, one look at Drabble and 101 Word Stories will refute that claim. How about the 140-character story, a tale the…

01/31/2016

Dear readers and contributors, Five years ago we came together as four friends from a writing group with the idea of starting a literary journal. We had no way of knowing at the time if anyone would ever submit or if anyone other than our parents would ever read it. The response from our submitters and readers, almost from the start, has been wonderful and overwhelming. [ 157 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end

Dear readers and contributors, Five years ago we came together as four friends from a writing group with the idea of starting a literary journal. We had no way of knowing at the time if anyone would ever submit or if anyone other than our parents would ever read it. The response from our submitters…

09/18/2015

The Quotable at Hampton Roads Writers Conference

09/03/2015

This is the third of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 17 contributor, Stacy Clark. I see them smiling in the grocery store, at the coffee shop. Strangers look at her, glance at me, and smile at us. She still holds my hand or slides her arm through mine when we walk. She is eleven. She has the dark eyes, black-brown hair, and warm tan skin of her Chinese heritage. [ 440 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/beneath-the-smiles

This is the third of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 17 contributor, Stacy Clark.  I see them smiling in the grocery store, at the coffee shop. Strangers look at her, glance at me, and smile at us. She still holds my hand or slides her arm through mine when we walk. She is eleven. …

08/20/2015

This is the second of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 18 contributor, Stacy Clark. I have this habit. I walk into a coffee shop or spend time in an airport, and I come away with a story. Maybe it is the writer in me, the quiet observer. It could be I am small and look irrevocably innocent. [ 473 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/coffee-and-a-story-to-go

This is the second of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 18 contributor, Stacy Clark.  I have this habit. I walk into a coffee shop or spend time in an airport, and I come away with a story. Maybe it is the writer in me, the quiet observer. It could be I am small and …

08/04/2015

This is the first of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 18 contributor, Stacy Clark. It was our first meeting. I met him outside at a picnic table on a crisp Vermont morning. Squinting into the sunlight, we sat with coffee and reading lists and a study plan at our elbows, feeling sure we had been mismatched. … [ 464 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/write-what-breaks-you

This is the first of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 18 contributor, Stacy Clark.    It was our first meeting. I met him outside at a picnic table on a crisp Vermont morning. Squinting into the sunlight, we sat with coffee and reading lists and a study plan at our elbows, feeling sure…

07/20/2015

Today’s guest post is by Jodi Herlick, whose short story "By the River" will appear in Issue #17 of The Quotable. Confession: I take my kids to playgrounds without swings so I won’t have to push them. While other moms scramble through climbing tubes, giggling as they shoot down slides with their kids on their laps, I’m over on a bench with my laptop, squinting through the sun’s glare and trying to tune out the shrieks of exhausted toddlers. [ 431 more words. ]

http://thequotablelit.com/blog/confessions-from-the-playground

Today’s guest post is by Jodi Herlick, whose short story “By the River” will appear in Issue #17 of The Quotable. Confession: I take my kids to playgrounds without swings so I won’t have to push them. While other moms scramble through climbing tubes, giggling as they shoot down slides with their kid…

05/16/2015

On Patience http://wp.me/p33bAn-yg

Today's guest post is by Ross Losapio, whose poem "Kinky Hair" appears in Nature or Nurture, Issue 16 of The Quotable. We've lost a number of incredible poets in recent years, including, just this past Valentine's Day, Philip Levine. Levine—along with Claudia Emerson, Mark Strand, Maya Angelou, Tomas Tranströmer, and many, many more"—left an indelible mark on the landscape of poetry. [ 445 more words. ]