Quimby’s After Hours: Veilance – Th. 10/30 6:30
Quimby’s After Hours: Veilance
Thursday, October 30, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622
Veilance is a small surrealist press run by writers, for writers. The annual issues of Veilance are guided by a theme which is intended to be transformed and transgressed by its contributors. Veilance Press prioritizes experimental work, welcoming submissions in the form of dream journals, collage, forged documents, graphs, cut-up techniques, ekphrasis, lists, found footage, images, anagrams, calligrams, talismans, erotica, theoretical essays, concrete poetry, blind contours, automatic writing, fantasies, and haikus.
Veilance Books is a new independent publishing resource. Veilance Books works one on one with a writer or artist to edit, design, and conceive their artist books, novelas, poetry collections, manifestos, plays or collected essays.
Join us with Veilance co-founders Eden Jolie and Els Deitz in conversation with After Hours host Taylor Thornburg and reading by Veilance contributors!
Eden is a writer and the co-founder of Veilance Press. Their work has been published by Temper Press and Agon Journal, they've read their work at the Whistler, Empty Bottle, Grunts Rare Books, Winnemac Reading Series, Links Hall, and other venues in Chicago. They received their BFAW at the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring of 2025.
Els is a writer, image maker and co-founder of Veilance Press. Their writing has appeared at The Empty Bottle, The Whistler and other bars.
Readers for After Hours: Veilance
Allegra Harvard is a Chicago based artist, playwright, curator, and director.
Vim Grace Hile lives and works as a teacher, artist, puppeteer and performer in Chicago, Illinois.
Isabel Beeman recently completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also edited prose for TIMBER journal. She writes about shame, weakness, and disconnection, and her style has been described as impressionistic and atmospheric. Her other interests include collecting rocks, decorating her apartment, and watching films. Outline is forthcoming in Issue 1 of Veilance.
Justin D’Acci is a Chicago-based clown, artist, and puppeteer. His writing has appeared in Issue 0: Eroticism (Veilance Press), Zero Degree (Blurden Press), and the self-published Book of Sooth Ob-Sooth (2021), and Clarity; or, Drivel from a Limb… (2022).
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Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!
