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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Winter 2017 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Winter 2017 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 8th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daniel Borzutsky
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutsky’s The Performance of Becoming Human\, winner of the 2016 National Book Award\, has been described as “one of contemporary poetry’s most cogent documents of humanity and suffering in the 21st century.” His other books include Lake Michigan\, In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy\, Memories of my Overdevelopment\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translations from Spanish include Raúl Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love.
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LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Short Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Four East Bay short-fiction authors appear at Perfectly Queer East Bay Wednesday\, October 25\, 7pm to 8:30pm\, at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland. Kwan Booth\, Helen Klonaris\, Achy Obejas\, and Kamala Puligandla read from their work. Delicious refreshments & thematic door prizes for the prompt! A discussion of writing short fiction follows the readings. Books by the authors will be available. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKwan Booth is an award-winning writer and strategist focused on the intersection of media\, culture\, and technology. He’s the editor of “Black Futurists Speak: New Black Writing” and has had journalism and creative writing published in The Guardian\, Fusion\, “CHORUS: a literary mixtape”\, and “Beyond the Frontier: African American Poets for the 21st Century.” His awards include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. Kwan posts occasional updates\, publications\, and mediocre cell phone photos at Boothism.org. \nHelen Klonaris is a Greek Bahamian writer\, educator\, and energy medicine practitioner. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Let’s Tell This Story Properly\, Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories\, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles\, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind\, among others. In 2014\, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Helen is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices\, published by Trans-Genre Press\, and the author of If I Had the Wings\, a collection of short stories published by Peepal Tree Press. \nAchy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many other authors. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Director of the MFA in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \nKamala Puligandla is the writer of many short autobiographical and biographical fictions\, some of which were definitely shared with her in confidence. She’s not really sorry. Her work has been featured in The Tusk\, The Establishment\, and in Loose Lips\, the anthology of the show Shipwreck SF. She also has a novel manuscript called Zigzags that she would love to give to someone else to care for. Kamala is well-known for being easily bribed by cheese and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos\, use that info as you will. And find her work at thatkamala.com.
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LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:This event is also made possible by the following cosponsors: the Campus Committee on Inclusive Excellence; the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action; Collegiate Seminar; the Communications Department; the English Department; and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts \nThe evening will include an introduction by Matthew Zapruder and a reading and preformance from Tyehimba Jess\, followed by a Q/A with Jess and Zapruder. Matthew Zapruder is Associate Professor of English and Poetry Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s. He serves as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books\, the publisher of Jess’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize poetry collection\, Olio. \nTyehimba Jess is the author of leadbelly and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olio. Jess’s Olio\, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, and the 2017 Book Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award\, 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Library Journal called it a “daring collection\, which blends forthright\, musically acute language with portraiture” and Publishers Weekly\, in a starred review\, called it “Encyclopedic\, ingenious\, and abundant” and selected it as one of the five best poetry books of 2016. Jess is the Poetry and Fiction Editor of the African American Review and is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
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LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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