The Dirty Gerund and Hot People Read Poetry present,,, Quick, Hot, and Dirty: A Zine of the Lost and Forgotten.

We want your orphan sentences—short phrases, fragments, or notes lost to the void, scribbled in journals, or abandoned in your phone’s notes app.

Submissions can also include grocery lists, to-do lists, pros and cons lists, scribbles, sticky notes, body counts, and recipes.

Entries may only be a sentence, phrase, or fragment and must not have been used in a completed work. Maximum 24 words. No finished work, no lines from finished pieces—only lost or forgotten fragments. No new work, only from the archives.

The deadline is September 1st / 11:59:59 PM.

CALLING ALL HOT POETS AND RUCKUS MAKERS!

Found a sentence under your bed? In your notes app? Whispered to you by a pigeon? We want it. You know the ones. That spicy little sentence with no story to live in. That lonely line that popped into your head at 3AM and never found a home. QUICK HOT AND DIRTY is building a loving trash fire of stray thoughts, rogue lines, abandoned literary creatures and everything inbetween. No plot? No problem. No context? Even better. Send us your sentence-orphans: too weird to delete, too hot to handle, too good to live alone; we promise to love them like our own.

We are excited to bring this collaboration to life from late night musings between our hosts to create a zine filled with poets from the city that never sleeps and the heart of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and everywhere inbetween.