Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology

Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology

Alley Cat Books and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology, The Other Side of Violet, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and award-winning poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez. Come prepared for revelations, epiphanies, and a few broad smiles.

This evening features writers from across the US and beyond, including Jessica Barksdale (Oakland), Carol Dorf (Berkeley), Patrick Cahill (SF), Maw Shein Win (Poet Laureate of El Cerrito), Julian Mithra (Oakland), Jan Steckel (Oakland), Richard Loranger (Oakland), and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening.

Based in New York City, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond.

Please stop by, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up, and pick up a copy of The Other Side of Violet to call your very own.

Release party for The Other Side of Violet

a reading by
Jessica Barksdale
Carol Dorf
Patrick Cahill
Maw Shein Win
Julian Mithra
Jan Steckel
Richard Loranger
and Jane Ormerod

hosted by Jane Ormerod

Friday, November 3
6:45 pm

free of charge

Alley Cat Books
3036 – 24th Street
San Francisco, CA

PERFORMER BIOS

Jessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel, The Burning Hour, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in, or are forthcoming, in Waccamaw Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Little Patuxent Review, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension. In addition, Jessica holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
Patrick Cahill co-edits Ambush Review, a San Francisco based literary and arts magazine. He received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UCSC. His poetry twice received the Central Coast Writers Award. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Left Curve, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Digging Our Poetic Roots, Otoliths, Aji, Into The Void, and riverbabble.
Carol Dorf is the author of the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press) and Some Years Ask (Locofo Chaps, Moria Press.) Her poetry appears in Sin Fronteras, Antiphon, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, Maintenant, and Best of Indie Lit New England. Carol is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches mathematics in Berkeley.

Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA. His recent book of flash prose, Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press, 2016), has been warmly received. He is also the author of the Poems for Teeth, The Orange Book, and nine chapbooks. Other recent work can be found in Oakland Review #4, Full of Crow (Winter 2017 Fiction Issue), and the online anthology HIV Here and Now. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.

Julian Mithra, primarily a performance artist, hovers between genre and gender, border-mongering and mongreling. Resisting essentialisms, they roll out monologues, collage black & white zines, clip poem videos, and rubber stamp imprints. They hold an MA in Folklore from UC Berkeley. Their work has been featured in Gendertrash Café, Milvia Street, Storm Cellar, Whirlwind, Sharkpack Review, and enough/enough.

Jan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. Her award-winning fiction and poetry appear in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California.

Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals, including Cimarron Review, Fanzine, Eleven Eleven, the Fabulist, and others. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone on Nomadic Press, and her full-length poetry collection will be published by Manic D Press in spring 2018. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito.

Jane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press), and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant, Flapperhouse, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Post (BLANK), Sensitive Skin, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.