One week from today: Me, Rob, Sarah, Black Market Translation, Mutiny Cafe, and everyone and everything that makes one of my favorite events: PUNKETRY! Which means I will be reading (ahem: shouting) from After the Rapture over my favorite punk band. So. Much. Fun!
Punketry is the profane math of punk+poetry every second Wednesday since 2017 at the Mutiny Information Cafe hosted by Sarah Rodriguez. This month Sarah has parent-teacher conferences (good job Sarah!) so we will have a special guest host Maggie Saunders!
Improvised psychpunk by Black Market Translation in collaboration with featured readers: Nancy Stohlman Em Coffee Rob Geisen Mike Coppolino
Seats at 7, Show at 7:30 $5 suggested donation goes to the artists, nobody turned away
The Rally marches on with Adam Dalva, Nancy Stohlman, and Colin Dickey taking the Pete’s Candy Store stage on Thursday, June 1st, 7pm!
Come see our terrific slate of readers perform, and offer them your questions, comments, and reactions. The Rally is the heart of a march in the body of a reading series. For more on this event, please visit www.rallyreadingseries.com.
Pete’s Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. Closest trains are the L/G at Lorimer/Metropolitan.
Nancy Stohlman Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020), winner of the 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and re-released in 2022 as an audiobook. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world. Find out more at http://www.nancystohlman.com
Adam Dalva Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic. He is the Senior Fiction Editor of Guernica Magazine. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, is the Books Editor of Words Without Borders, and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.
Colin Dickey Colin Dickey is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places; The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained; and, most recently, Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy (July 2023).
A novel can be written on a postcard. A story needs only six words for the telling. (“For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”) Please join three contemporary masters in the arts of brevity at Clio’s to experience the joys and challenges of writing short. In a tradition that has roots in ancient aphorisms and parables, Grant, Larry, and Nancy create flash fiction, super-short stories, and 100-word novels. Over the course of their evening at Clio’s, they will discuss the why, how, and where of the short short and guide us through some brief exercises with pen and paper to produce our own six word stories—which Clio’s will proudly archive and display! Bring the kids! This will be fun.
Our guests numerous books will be available for purchase.
About our guests:Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His most recent book is The Art of Brevity;he has also published Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories; All the Comfort Sin Can Provide; and Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo. His stories have appeared in Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Flash Fiction America, and Best Small Fictions. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, LitHub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer.
Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books, including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020), winner of the 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and re-released in 2022 as an audiobook. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world.
Described by Oprah Magazine as “on a quest to spark self-expression in everyone,” Larry Smith is the founder of the Six-Word Memoir project, a bestselling series of ten books, a board game, and a live-event program found in classrooms, conferences, festivals, company retreats, and almost anywhere people gather. He is the editor of The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous and Obscure, co-author of The Joy of Cannabis, and director of the play A Map of Myself: A 70-Minute, One-Woman Revolution on War, Immigration, and Home.
Order of events.4pm: Doors open 5pm: Reading and discussing 6pm: Writing and sharing 7pm: Signing and sealing 8pm: Doors close
I’m excited to be reading in person in San Francisco, NYC, Paris and returning to the Flash Fiction Festival in England.
AND I have a handful of virtual readings as well as an online Flash Novel workshop during the Writer’s Digest Virtual Short Story Conference weekend.
I look forward to seeing you in person or online soon! Thanks as always for your support!
xoxo
FRIDAY, May 12:VIRTUAL Fiction Friday featuring readings by David Galef, Miriam N. Kotzin, Dennis Pahl, Nancy Stohlman and Denis Bell. 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (EST) via Zoom
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