Artifice is a nonprofit literary magazine, published twice annually, that aims, by content and context, to showcase creative work aware of its own artifice. The things we like, we like more than we can stand.


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PREVIOUS EVENTS

 

Issue 2 Release Tour:

October 1, 2010, 7:00 PM
The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, Chicago IL


Come out to the Book Cellar for our Issue 2 Release + Reading. Plus, Artifice Magazine presents PANK Magazine to you, with readings by:

Roxane Gay
Elizabeth Hildreth
Caroline Picard
Fred Sasaki
M. Bartley Seigel
David Welch

 

October 9, 2010, 7:00 PM
Big Car Gallery, 1043 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Vouched Books Presents Artifice Magazine's Issue 2 at Big Car Gallery with readings by:

David Blomenberg
Brandon Blackburn
Roxane Gay
Elizabeth Hildreth
M. Kitchell
David Welch


 

 


October 13, 2010, 7:30 PM

Narrow House, 24 E. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD

BYOB! Monumental Reading Series and Narrow House present Artifice Magazine's Issue 2 with readings by:

Molly Gaudry
David Blomenberg
Andrew Farkas
M. Kitchell
...and others!

 

 

 

 

October 14, 2010, 7:00 PM
Wonderland Ballroom, 1101 Kenyon St. NW, Washington, DC

Barrelhouse Magazine Presents...Artifice Magazine with readings by:

Tony  Mancus
David Blomenberg
Andrew Farkas
M. Kitchell
...and others!

 

 

 

 

October 15, 2010, 7:30 PM
The Penny Farthing, 103 3rd Avenue, NYC

The Madness Much tour continues in New  York City with readings by:

Keith Meatto
David Silverstein
Andrew Farkas
M. Kitchell
...and others!

 

 

 

 

 

October 16, 2010, 5:30 PM
The Enormous Room, 569 Massachussets Avenue, Cambridge, MA

The Madness Much tour concludes in Boston, which is last but certainly not least. Readings by:

Elisa Gabbert
Ori Fienberg
Jeremy Bushnell
Andrew Farkas
M. Kitchell
...and others!

 






August 13, 2010

CHICAGO TRANSLATION: Lit, Music, and Dance Party
August 13th, $10

The Hideout
1354 W. Wabansia

REQUITED JOURNAL, ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE & ARTIFICE MAGAZINE invite you to celebrate a translation of Chicago through literature--with music and video by MAGICAL BEAUTIFUL and a dance party with DJ Kevin Smith!

...Chicago's literary reconstruction begins at 10pm, music at 11 and dancing into the night.

Join us as artists combine sound, syntax, and image to reinterpret Chicago and create contemporary meaning to familiar city-spaces.

Featuring Writers: JAMES TADD ADCOX, KATHLEEN ROONEY, KRISTIN ORSER, and NELL TAYLOR

 

February 27, 2009

Artifice Issue 1 Release Party at Loft 3a

Some recaps (with pictures) here & here.