10/30 After Hours: Veilance

Published on October 22, 2025 Closed
Oct ’25
30
6:30 pm

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

Register to Attend: Quimby’s After Hours: Veilance

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 creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Pay what you can afford. Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

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!

10/10 FULL BLEED Gallery Show Reception

Published on October 6, 2025 0 Comments
Oct ’25
10
5:00 pm

FULL BLEED Gallery Show

Reception: Friday, October 10th, 5-7 pm
Light refreshments will be served, plus prizes, stickers, zines & more!
Quimby’s Bookstore: 1854 W North Ave. CH-IL

Show runs October 5th through early November

FULL BLEED zine is taking over our gallery wall for spooky season! Featuring art and work from a dozen Full Bleed contributors; Jim Terry, Melissa Kelly, Tyrell Cannon, Mr. Walters, Max Bare, Jcrash Charles Huth, Austin Winstead, Stuart John Marsh, Tony Recktenwald, Eerie Ed, Spencer Drew Bogart! & maybe more!

Viewer beware, you’re in for a scare!!

Registration for this free event on Eventbrite is appreciated!

 

9/29 Liz Mason: My farewell address!

Published on September 26, 2025 0 Comments

Love to you all! Click here or on the link below to my final goodbye. Mwah! xoxo Liz

 

9/27 Show & Tell: madeleine aguilar

Published on September 23, 2025 0 Comments
Sep ’25
27
6:30 pm

Quimby’s Show & Tell
with madeleine aguilar of bench press
Saturday, September 27, 2025 – 6:30 PM
in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Join madeleine aguilar of bench press for a conversation on maintaining a collaborative practice, dive deep into the behind-the-scenes of some of her favorite publications. Bench Press is a risograph press based on friendship, play & collaboration. Books are remnants of generative conversations & mutual exchange between artist + publisher.

“madeleine is an artist & musician from chicago. her work is often mobile / modular / interactive and can be found in backyards, libraries, storefronts, homes, galleries, book stores & street fairs. using the archive as form, she acknowledges the passing of time by cataloging lived spaces, collected objects, familial histories, personal relationships, natural phenomena, mundane routines, and ephemeral moments.” ~ benchpresspress.com

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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 creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Pay what you can afford. Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

9/25 After Hours: Taylor Thornburg

Published on September 22, 2025 0 Comments
Sep ’25
25
6:00 pm

Quimby’s After Hours:
Taylor Thornburg – 6:00 pm to 7:27 pm
Thursday, September the 25th 6pm-7:27pm

in-person at Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

Quimby’s After Hours is excited to welcome Quimby’s family member Taylor Thornburg for a conversation, reading, and book launch for his recent release Agathe, 6:00 p.m. to 7:27, “about a woman, her letter, a memory, and the trouble in which she finds herself.”

“Taylor Thornburg is an author and essayist based in Chicago, Illinois. His fiction explores strange yet humane ways of being. His fiction can be found in The Garfield Lake Review, L’Esprit Literary Review, Thirteenth Floor Magazine, Valley Voices, The Heartwood Literary Review, Disco Kitchen, and elsewhere.” ~ Lost Telegram Press

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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 creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Pay what you can afford. Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

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!