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Quiddity

About Quiddity: Quiddity is a multimedia arts venue featuring an international literary journal (print and audio), a public-radio program, and a visiting writer and artist series.

Publisher’s description: Quiddity is published and produced by Benedictine University in partnership with NPR-member WUIS.

The journal features exemplary prose, poetry, and artwork from around the world. The public-radio program and visiting writer series feature select authors and artists. Contributors to the journal are invited to submit audio for the public-radio program.

The term quiddity means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Those who participate in the arts—crafters, readers, viewers, listeners—are its quiddity, and Quiddity not only seeks work from a diverse pool of individuals but also to share that work with a wide audience.

From the Editor:
The arts have a magnificent capacity to engender moments of keen understanding— moments that can happen across time, culture, and distance, coalescing into a distillate spark of acute discernment. Your contribution to this embrace through your participation constitutes the quiddity of the arts and is deeply appreciated. ~JBT

Reviews:

“A fine choice for any collection of contemporary literature.” ~Library Journal

“The brilliant thing about the medium is to hear poets reading, speaking and singing their works and the extra impact it makes.” ~Cambridge University Press

“A delightful combination of poetry and short fiction…irresistible.” ~NewPages

Recent issues:

Quiddity Volume 6 Number 1 features new works of poetry and prose from emerging and established writers around the world, including Rewa Zenati, Jacob M. Appel, Angie Macri, Ellen McGrath Smith, Matthew Burns, Moira Linehan, Jonathan Greenhause, Nadia Ibrashi, Haider Al-Kabi, Andrew Bates, Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer, David Moolten, Richard Dokey, Matthew Porubsky, Hellen Ruggieri, and Andrew Oerke. Also included are chalk pastels by George Collin and interviews with Jennie Battles (on Vachel Lindsay) and Jeannie Zeck (on August Wilson).

Quiddity Volume 5 Number 2 is a special fifth-year anniversary collection of works and featured conversations with distinguished writers and artists, including Robert Hellenga, J.o.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada, Sena Jeter Naslund, Kevin Stein, Susan Bordo, Robert Olen Butler, Elizabeth Kolbert, Mary Gay Shipley, Alice Friman, John Man, Dan Beachy-Quick, Brock Clarke, Adam Braver, Mylene Dressler, Brian Doyle, and David Gessner, as well as artwork by Vachel Lindsay.

 

last updated 04/29/2013