Get Lit! October 2016 Edition

Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner! Come cozy up with a glass of wine and listen to these storytellers!

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).

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+ Dani Burlison is the author of “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name and “Lady Parts,” which will be available soon from Pioneers Press. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune, KQED Arts and The Rumpus. Her writing can also be found at WIRED, Vice, Utne, Ploughshares, Hip Mama Magazine, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Shareable, Prick of the Spindle and more. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Lit Camp and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and has upcoming work in various online and print publications. Dani is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel.

+ Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published flash in Quarter After Eight, [PANK], Monkeybicycle, Sweet, Café Irreal, The Pinch, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pine Press, 2016), and many online journals. She lives in the East Bay with her husband, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez, and their son.

+ Megan Turner graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Her work has appeared in Rio Grande Review, Spark, Witness, Grasslimb, Atticus Review, and others. Originally from Baltimore, she grew up in Columbia, Maryland and Harrogate, England. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. For more information, please visit: www.MeganRTurner.com.

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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