diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version 0.10.1
+--------------
+
+* Add a --quickcheck-shrinks flag
+
 Version 0.10
 ------------
 
diff --git a/Test/Tasty/QuickCheck.hs b/Test/Tasty/QuickCheck.hs
--- a/Test/Tasty/QuickCheck.hs
+++ b/Test/Tasty/QuickCheck.hs
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@
 newtype QuickCheckVerbose = QuickCheckVerbose Bool
   deriving (Typeable)
 
+-- | Number of shrinks allowed before QuickCheck will fail a test.
+newtype QuickCheckMaxShrinks = QuickCheckMaxShrinks Int
+  deriving (Num, Ord, Eq, Real, Enum, Integral, Typeable)
+
 instance IsOption QuickCheckTests where
   defaultValue = 100
   parseValue = fmap QuickCheckTests . safeRead
@@ -141,6 +145,13 @@
   optionHelp = return "Show the generated test cases"
   optionCLParser = mkFlagCLParser mempty (QuickCheckVerbose True)
 
+instance IsOption QuickCheckMaxShrinks where
+  defaultValue = QuickCheckMaxShrinks (QC.maxShrinks QC.stdArgs)
+  parseValue = fmap QuickCheckMaxShrinks . safeRead
+  optionName = return "quickcheck-shrinks"
+  optionHelp = return "Number of shrinks allowed before QuickCheck will fail a test"
+  optionCLParser = mkOptionCLParser $ metavar "NUMBER"
+
 -- | Convert tasty options into QuickCheck options.
 --
 -- This is a low-level function that was originally added for tasty-hspec
@@ -159,15 +170,17 @@
         , QC.maxSize         = maxSize
         , QC.replay          = Just (mkQCGen replaySeed, 0)
         , QC.maxDiscardRatio = maxRatio
+        , QC.maxShrinks      = maxShrinks
         }
 
   return (replaySeed, args)
 
   where
-    QuickCheckTests    nTests   = lookupOption opts
-    QuickCheckReplay   mReplay  = lookupOption opts
-    QuickCheckMaxSize  maxSize  = lookupOption opts
-    QuickCheckMaxRatio maxRatio = lookupOption opts
+    QuickCheckTests      nTests     = lookupOption opts
+    QuickCheckReplay     mReplay    = lookupOption opts
+    QuickCheckMaxSize    maxSize    = lookupOption opts
+    QuickCheckMaxRatio   maxRatio   = lookupOption opts
+    QuickCheckMaxShrinks maxShrinks = lookupOption opts
 
 instance IsTest QC where
   testOptions = return
@@ -177,6 +190,7 @@
     , Option (Proxy :: Proxy QuickCheckMaxSize)
     , Option (Proxy :: Proxy QuickCheckMaxRatio)
     , Option (Proxy :: Proxy QuickCheckVerbose)
+    , Option (Proxy :: Proxy QuickCheckMaxShrinks)
     ]
 
   run opts (QC prop) _yieldProgress = do
diff --git a/tasty-quickcheck.cabal b/tasty-quickcheck.cabal
--- a/tasty-quickcheck.cabal
+++ b/tasty-quickcheck.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                tasty-quickcheck
-version:             0.10
+version:             0.10.1
 synopsis:            QuickCheck support for the Tasty test framework.
 description:         QuickCheck support for the Tasty test framework.
 license:             MIT
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   exposed-modules:     Test.Tasty.QuickCheck
   -- other-modules:
   other-extensions:    GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, DeriveDataTypeable
-  build-depends:       base == 4.*, tagged, tasty >= 0.10.1, random, QuickCheck >= 2.7,
+  build-depends:       base == 4.*, tagged, tasty >= 1.0.1, random, QuickCheck >= 2.7,
                        optparse-applicative
 
   -- hs-source-dirs:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     test.hs
   build-depends:
       base >= 4 && < 5
-    , tasty >= 1.0.1
+    , tasty
     , tasty-quickcheck
     , tasty-hunit
     , pcre-light