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SUMMARY:Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…  A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Presents:\n“EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…\nA Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage  \nSUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED\nNovember 1-7 \nHaving transformed short stories verbatim to the stage for the past 25 years\, Word for Word now wants to extend this singular experience to writers throughout California. The selected short stories reflect many points of view\, from a rich diversity of California’s writers. Festival activities will include a writers salon featuring Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue\, Watermelon Nights\, How A Mountain was Made) and Amy Tan (“The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “The Joy Luck Club”) and other activities. The festival will culminate in staged readings of five jury selected short stories by adults and six jury selected stories by teens\, performed in Word for Word’s signature Off the Page style.  \nClick Here to see a full list of winners\, including picture and bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nLaunch of the Festival Of Short Stories\nwith Greg Sarris and Amy Tan\nFriday November 1\, 7 PM\nJewish Community High School of the Bay\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco 94115 \nKick of the festival with a writer’s Salon with two of Word for Word’s favorite authors\, Greg Sarris and Amy Tan! These two luminaries will speak about the nature of the short story and their experiences with having Word for Word bring their works to the stage. \nWord for Word will revisit snippets the companies past productions of “Citizen” (Sarris) and “Immortal Heart” (Tan). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I am so in love with Word for Word and what they do. I come from a community who generally does not read. After my American Indian community had seen Slaughterhouse\, they were inspired to read.”  \n–Greg Sarris \nGreg Sarris is a Native American author whose books include Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Word for Word is a marvel. While respecting the author’s every word\, the company also manages to create something completely new\, going well beyond the page into an art that has no words. I was completely bowled over by the acting\, the stage\, the costumes\, the choreography—the sheer power of the experience of watching words come to life.” \n–Amy Tan \nAmy Tan is the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and other novels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO FESTIVAL LAUNCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #1\nFeaturing “Arithmetic” by Michael Alenyikov\, “The 14 Mission” by Anita Cabrera”\, “The Ruins” by Lindsey Crittenden \nSaturday\, November 2\, 8 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #2\nFeaturing “Blue Ruin” by Katherine Lieban\, “Cancer Poems” by Kim Addonizio \nSunday\, November 3\, 5 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Winners\nFeaturing”Middle School Advice” by Kenzo Fukuda\, “Atop the Saltback Mountain” by Tess Horton\, “Here’s a Theory Darling” by Sofi Orkin\, “The Magnolia Man” by Stella Pfahler\, “Matter of the Heart and Mind” by Charlotte Pocock and “Cancer” by Maya Reihanian  \nThursday\, November 7\, 7:30 PM – Children’s Creativity Museum at Yerba Buena Gardens \nThis program features staged readings from our teen category. Come out and revel at our next generation of writers! \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO TEEN WINNERS\n\n\n\n\nStand with the bear! Be a literary champion and support California writers by sponsoring or partnering with “Exactly!” They Said…\nSponsorship / Partner benefits available.\nContact Vanessa Flores at vflores@zspace.org or at 415. 659.8134 to learn more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-exactly-they-said-a-festival-of-short-stories-by-california-writers-brought-straight-to-the-stage/
LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raina Telgemeier
DESCRIPTION:Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT\n\n\n\n\npresents Guts\, a true story from the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile\, Sisters\, Drama\, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny tale about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–her fears. \nThis event is now SOLD OUT. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 5\, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nRaina Telgemeier has been captivating readers young and old for years\, and once again she brings us a thoughtful\, charming\, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face–and conquer–your fears. She is the bestselling\, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of Smile and Sisters\, which are both graphic memoirs based on her childhood. She is also the creator of Drama and Ghosts\, and is the adapter and illustrator of four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels. Telgemeier lives in the Bay Area. To learn more\, visit her online at goRaina.com. \nDuring this evening event\, sponsored by Mrs. Dalloway’s and Berkwood Hedge School\, Telgemeier will give a dynamic presentation and answer audience questions\, and ticketholders will have the opportunity to meet her and take a photo together after the event. \nBooks will be distributed at the event\, including a special signed book plate. Those who wish to pick up their books before the event can do so at Mrs. Dalloway’s\, 2904 College Ave in Berkeley\, (510) 704-8222. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way @ Dana St\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 5\, 2019 at 6:30pm\nJane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres\nA Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club\n2101 Webster St.\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\nPoems in Defense of Our Planet: Please join us at Sierra Club’s national headquarters in Oakland\, CA as we hear two insightful poets read their inspiring work to support Sierra Club’s mission to protect the world we love. Beer\, wine\, and small bites will be served. \nRSVP and Donate Here \nCan’t make it? To make a tax-deductible donation through Sierra Club Foundation\, click here. Thank you. \nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centered on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.” \nEllery Akers is the author of two award-winning poetry books\, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth. Her new poetry collection\, Swerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance\, is forthcoming in January from Blue Light Press.  She has won thirteen writing awards\, including the Poetry International Prize and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared in such journals as Poetry and The New York Times Magazine.  She is also the author of a children’s novel\, Sarah’s Waterfall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ellery-acres-a-benefit-reading-for-the-sierra-club/
LOCATION:Sierra Club National Headquarters\, 2101 Webster St\, 13th Floor\, Oakland\, CA - California
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring 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\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Neeli Cherkovski (SF)\, Joan Gelfand (SF)\, Matthew Hupert (NYC)\, Deborah Kennedy (San Jose)\, Mira Martin-Parker (SF)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and SB Stokes (Oakland). \nHosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \nRelease party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nNeeli Cherkovski\nJoan Gelfand\nMatthew Hupert\nDeborah Kennedy\nMira Martin-Parker\nRichard Loranger\nand SB Stokes \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, and The Crow and I (2015). He is the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). In addition\, Neeli has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children. His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Neeli received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJoan Gelfand is the author of You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 C’s of Successful Authors (Mango Press)\, three volumes of poetry\, and an award-winning chapbook of short fiction. Joan’s novel set in a Silicon Valley startup is forthcoming from Mastodon  /  C&R Press. Recipient of numerous awards and honors\, Joan’s work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Prairie Schooner\, Toronto Review\, Marsh Hawk Review\, Kalliope\, Rattle\, Levure littéraire\, and many other journals. \nMatthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist. He is the founder of the NeuroNautic Institute and its associated poetry workshop and of NeuroNautic Press which just released his latest collection\, Secular Pantheism. He is the author of Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and several chapbooks\, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications including Midstream Magazine\, Maintenant\, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. When not writing\, Matthew can be found cooking for his family. He lives in New York City. \nDeborah Kennedy is an author and artist whose recent book\, Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth\, combines illustrations and poetry focusing on the ecological themes of our time. The book’s honors include the 2016 Eric Hoffer Poetry Book Award and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Poetry Book Award. Her writing has appeared in First Literary Review-East and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Deborah lives in San Jose and teaches college classes and poetry workshops. She often hikes in an urban riparian corridor where she spots osprey\, hawks\, and herons. In the evening she watches for moonbows\, earthshine\, and other modern miracles. \n Mira Martin-Parker earned an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in various publications\, including Istanbul Literary Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, Mythium\, and Zyzzyva. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nS B Stokes writes\, draws\, designs\, and produces in the hills behind a lake in Oakland\, California. His publications include a full-length poetry collection called A History of Broken Love Things (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, a chapbook entitled DARK ENTRIES (Gorilla Press  / The Pedestrian Press\, 2014)\, and a self-published chapbook called Let’s Call This Nothing (2018). S  B is one of the founding producers of Beast Crawl\, an annual literary festival in Oakland which features over thirty readings and is 100% free. \nJane 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel\, On Swift Horses. \nPraise for On Swift Horses \n“Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. On Swift Horses is\, for me\, one of those books. As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight\, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace\, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is\, simply put\, a masterpiece.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena   \n“On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué\, about daring to know\, name\, and act on our own desires. Read this book for the adventure\, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching\, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. Her voice is muscular\, awesome\, and pure. This book knocked me flat on my back.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“On Swift Horses is a marvel\, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw\, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahl’s mid-century West is dead-on right\, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope.” —Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nAbout On Swift Horses \nA lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. \nMuriel is newly married and restless\, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus\, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother\, dead before Muriel’s nineteenth birthday\, and her sly\, itinerant brother-in-law\, Julius\, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop\, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile\, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas\, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof\, and falling in love with Henry\, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town\, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana\, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. \nOn Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck\, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-pufahl-on-swift-horses/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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