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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective September Reading
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto: \nHeather Bourbeau\nJenny Bitner\nJane Ciabattari\nChristopher Cook\nLaurie Doyle\nThaisa Frank\nVanessa Hua\nChad Koch\nJoshua Mohr\nEthel Rohan\nLizette Wanzer \nJenny Bitner’s short stories and flash fiction have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Writing That Risks\, PANK\, The Sun\, Mississippi Review and Fence magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and teaches Flash Fiction at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Duende\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Tupelo Press. Her piece “Hopscotch” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nJane Ciabattari is the author of the story collections\, Stealing the Fire and California Tales\, and of stories published in 100WordStory and New Flash Fiction Review and many other publications. She writes the Between the Lines column for BBC.com\, a weekly column for the Literary Hub\, and contributes regularly to NPR. She is vice president /online and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Flash Fiction Collective. \nChristopher Cook is an award-winning writer and author whose work has appeared in Harper’s\, Mother Jones\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis\, and is completing a memoir about living and growing up on the road. Check him out at www.christopherdcook.com. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Award\, as well as nominations for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book of short stories\, World Gone Missing\, is a finalist for the Livingston Press (University of West Alabama) fiction prize\, and a story from the collection appears in their fiction anthology. Other stories and essays have been published in Jabberwock Review\, Arroyo Literary Review\, Dogwood Journal\, Under the Sun and elsewhere. She’s a co-founder of Babylon Salon\, San Francisco’s long running reading series\, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nThaisa Frank’s sixth book\, Enchantment\, includes two semi-autobiographical novellas and thirty-three stories. Heidegger’s Glasses (2010)\, about the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, sold to ten foreign countries. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage. Her nonfiction book Finding Your Writer’s Voice has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and is used in MFA programs. \nVanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and a forthcoming novel\, is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, ZYZZYVA\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including “Damascus\,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” recently won the Northern California Book Award. \nEthel Rohan is an award-winning flash and short story writer. Her first novel\, The Weight of Him\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in February\, 2017. \nLyzette Wanzer is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, Aesthetica Magazine\, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie\, 2012) and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books\, 2015). Lyzette is the 2016 First Place winner in the national Kay Snow Nonfiction Competition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-september-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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