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Roastmeal: The Rage Issue Release
Friends! Join us in opening the hellmouth and getting super aggro this October with the epic release of ROASTMEAL: The Rage Issue! This blistering 11th issue of Oatmeal Magazine is so hot and messy with rage it’ll burn through your eyeballs into your heart and deep down in your gut, and we’ll all be better for it. It’s beautiful and fierce and ugly and important and full of love and strength and vulnerable writing, and we can’t wait to share it with you all.
*Also* this might be our last issue ever, so we extra-hope you’ll come hang out and get mad AF with a bunch of wonderful people who appreciate all your rage and feelings! There will be amazing readings AND we are so lucky and excited that SPELLLING and collander are gonna be playing all their dreamy, dreamy sounds. Come dance!! It’ll be the best night.
doors at 7 // readings at 7:30 // music at ~8:45
more details below!
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ANGEL DOMINGUEZ is a Latinx, Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast. He is the author of Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015), an experimental lyric-novel that functions as an extended meditation on writing in relation to the body; time, loss, ancestry, ritual and dreaming. His work can be found in FENCE, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Macaroni Necklace #5, Elderly 18, Open House Poetry, spiralorb.com and more. He was the co-founding editor of Tract/Trace: an investigative journal, senior editor of The Bombay Gin, and presently curates “Mi Vida Locx” with Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Elana Chavez. Along with Hannah Kezema, he co-founded the performance art collaborative: Dream Tigers. Find him on twitter: @dandelionglitch
JOSÉ VADI is an award-winning writer and film producer based in Oakland, California. The recipient of the Shenson Performing Arts Award, his work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour, The Daily Beast, Colorlines, The Huffington Post, Jupiter 88, and Catapult.
TARA MARSDEN lives and writes in Oakland. She moonlights as a bookseller (don’t ask her about her day job). Her Slaughterhouse Five-themed smut can be found in the anthology Loose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck, recently published by Grand Central. You can read her non-smut writing in Eleven Eleven, Boing Boing, and The Establishment.
ELIZABETH FREEMAN lives in Oakland, sells books for a living in Berkeley, watches Murder She Wrote and hangs out with her elderly cat a lot. She is @eafreem on twitter with lots of feelings & words & minute by minute narration of terrible tv shows.
With a world as fleeting as it is, AKANDE X is merely attempting to write everything down before it is gone. He loves Toni Morrison, Nietzsche, and Richard Wright.
MELINDA NOACK is woman writer, writer of womanly things based in Oakland. She helped create Lacuna, the “world’s most public library,” for the Bay Area Book Festival, co-coordinates local writing group, If I Told Napoleon, and has been a featured reader at Nomadic Press, Liminal, and The Hundy. Friends and mild acquaintances are reminded of her when they see nachos, kettle corn, and dreadful book titles. She likes three-part lists.
CLAIRE STRINGER is an illustrator and bookseller living in Oakland. She has eaten oatmeal most mornings since co-founding Oatmeal Magazine in 2011, and recently started illustrating for The Rumpus’ Funny Women column. Sometimes she posts her art on her tumblr, www.clairestrings.com
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* * * MUSIC! * * *
~*~*~ collander ~*~*~
queer sick experimental pop
soundcloud.com/collander
~*~*~ SPELLLING ~*~*~
conjurings
soundcloud.com/spellling
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+ snacks and drinks! maybe this time we will actually have a vat of oatmeal?? who knows.
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access info:
pls come scent free! chemical products make some people very sick, so no perfumes, essential oils, fragranced products, detergents, etc. we also ask folks to please avoid smoking at this event and avoid wearing clothes with cigarette smoke. (we will try our best to remove immediate scents in the bookstore, but we are not able to guarantee the event as fully scent-free because it’s located next to a beauty salon, and sometimes the smell of aerosol or perm solution comes through the vents; we also won’t be able to check folks at the door.) here’s a helpful scent-free guide! http://www.anapsid.org/
the bookstore is wheelchair accessible, however its bathroom is not (it’s upstairs). there are accessible bathrooms at golden lotus a few doors down and also at the tribune tavern across the street, and we’ll make sure that folks can use them the night of the event. please feel free to reach out to claire or any of the event people to let us know if there’s any additional information/
We can’t wait to see you all so soon!
Love and rage,
The Oatmeal Family