Mar 21, 2013 0
ACTION FICTION ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY: spectacular writing performed on stage
Photo: Gunnar Helliesen
On Thursday March 14th, SF Writer’s Community, Omnibucket, and Fiction365 came together at Chez Poulet to celebrate the one year anniversary of Action Fiction! Authors don’t read their own stories; instead, actors and sometimes fellow writers come up on stage and perform the readings. The founders, Benjamin Wachs, W. Ross Ayers, and Scott Lambridis,believe in the power of experiencing writing through the fine arts and performance.
You can read the playbill for the entire show and the bios of the authors and some of the performers here, and more about the series here.
This was my first Action Fiction event and I did not know what to expect when walking into the intimate space of Chez Poulet. By the time the show was about to start, the audience was filled with a mixture of writers, performers, friends and newbies like myself. The three founders came up on stage to introduce the event and proudly statedthat this was the one year anniversary of Action Fiction. There would be three stories performed, a short intermission with free wine and celebratory cake, and then the three final stories. Read the rest of this entry »
