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Get Lit! July 2016 Edition
Get Lit celebrates HOT summer lit with special guest readers Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez and Hilary Zaid! We sure hope you’ll join us!
Following our guest readers, we’ll have time for schmoozing, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit).
* Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band, a memoir about her days in the groundbreaking 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy. Michelle has been a regular contributor to Hip Mama Magazine, published in anthologies, and her story “Juan, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. She teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas College and lives in Oakland with a jazz pianist, a Mexican nationalist, and three Mexican dogs.
* Daniel Riddle Rodriguez’s real name is Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. A full-time student and father, he is from San Lorenzo, California, where he lives with his son. He is the author of Low Village (CutBank 2016). Previous publications include Juked, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Stream Magazine, Fourteen Hills, and others.
* Hilary Zaid is a writer who prefers candy to alcohol. She is a novelist whose short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine, The Southwest Review, CALYX, The Utne Reader and other, funkier venues. She is super stressed out about the possibility of being evicted from her home in Oakland and she is reading tonight from her story “Dark Between the Stars,” the BLOOM Literary Chapbook Prize winner chosen by Judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe.
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*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January, April, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma!
Each event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine, beer, non-alcoholic beverages, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar, as well.
Get Lit is a free, 21+ event