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Saturday Night Special: An “Elevator Pitch” Open Mic
We’re locked in an elevator together. For the next three minutes (or less) I am your captive audience. What will you try to sell me? Give me your best elevator pitch.
As always, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems, stories, comedic sketches, songs, dances, or sales pitches on our optional theme (or any topic).
Our April features are: K.R. Morrison & Robert Andrew Andres Perez Jr
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First come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm)
Each reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.
PLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS, we turn on the disco lights! So, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself!
After the reading, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm
Saturday, April 29th, 2017
7 – 9:30 pm
Nick’s Lounge (21+)
3218 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA
1 block south of Ashby BART
Between Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way
FREE!
But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
Hosted by Hollie Hardy
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BIOS
When she’s not writing poems or drumming in an all-girl garage rock band, K.R. MORRISON teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to inner city high school students at Galileo in San Francisco, CA. Writing for many years, she finally reads at open mics around the Bay Area, including many Saturday Night Specials. K.R. Morrison has been featured twice in Bay Area Generations, and her first publication “When in Mexico” appeared in Switchback Magazine in July, 2016. She’s currently working on a poetry collection entitled, “From Her Wrist,” and hopes to have it published by someone awesome once it’s done.
Born in Manila & raised in the sprawling outer edges of Los Angeles County, ROBERT ANDREW PEREZ moved to the Bay Area to earn his BA from Berkeley & MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California, where he occasionally teaches. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His first poetry collection, “The Field,” was released in fall 2016 from Omnidawn. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Awl, Eleven Eleven, The Laurel Review, The Cortland Review, and Fourteen Hills. His poetry was also featured in Public Pool and Vinyl Poetry. He’s a 2017 guest editor for the online journal The Elephants. Currently, he’s in the throes of finishing a feature-length comedy about a divorce and wine tasting called “Stone Fruit.” More at robertandrewperez.com.