Due to a schedule conflict we have bumped our January 14th event to the 21st!
Bring in the New Year with some great stories and inspiration! Share your work or just come and listen to our wonderful readers. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Expose Your Fiction
Due to a schedule conflict we have bumped our January 14th event to the 21st!
Bring in the New Year with some great stories and inspiration! Share your work or just come and listen to our wonderful readers. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Sorry I’m posting this out of sequence – we had a mini Flash Fiction Forum at the Art Party with six flasher on September 20th. What a magical night! So many talented writers joined us, and David Perez supplied poetry on demand for an art hungry crowd.
Our line-up:
Bob Dickerson (Ina Johnson on Banjo), “On Some Verses of Virgil”, and “Bear Hunting”
Gary Singh, “Flea Market Shades,” and “Racetrack Massacre”
Tania Martin, “Pink Suitcase”
Tarn Wilson, “The Week I learned My Father Would Die,” and “My Czechoslovakian Plastic Surgeon”
Frances Lefkowitz, “Thorns,” originally published in Superstition Review, http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue9/nonfiction/franceslefkowitz, and “A Tighter Spiral” published in CounterexamplesPoetic.com
Tommy Mouton, excerpt from “What We Do Cherish”
So cool to have every seat in the house taken!!! Thanks to everyone for coming out and supporting us.
Our line up:
Kirsten Chen, “Boys on the Roof”
Jennifer Swanton Brown, “Santa Ynez, Patron Saint of Bodily Purity, Waits in a Bar Downtown,” and “Pit Bull”
Renée M. Schell, “Jack”
Allison Landa, “Getting To Know You”
Kevin Sharp, “In Blackest Night”
Noorulain Noor, “Monsoon in Lahore”
Lita Kurth, “Sorry I Ate Your Goldfish”
Liz Nguyen, “Touch Me Barbie”
Dallas Woodburn, “Girafe”
Carol Park, “The Question of Alarm”
Tania Martin, “Empathy Lost and Found”
You won’t want to miss this celebration of the Arts! It has everything, world class art, music, performance art, and a “Spoken Word Lounge” featuring talented poets and flash fiction writers.
Santa Clara County Fairgrounds
344 Tully Road, San Jose, CA 95111
Thanks to all who participated in our August Flash Fiction Forum. It was a special night with outstanding readings and a great audience. A big shout out to Works for hosting us and providing such a great space.
Authors and Works:
Tommy Mouton, Stienbeck Fellow, San Jose State University, “Those That Walk”
Karie Stephens, “Happily”
Leslie Hoffman, “On Our Way Home”
Kathleen De Azevedo, excerpt from “The Day of St. John,” published in Boston Review, June 2000, available online http://www.bostonreview.net/fiction/kathleen-de-azevedo-day-saint-john
Pratibha Kelapure, “Running Water”
Ken Weisner, “The Builder” published in The Sacred Geometry of Pedestrians (2002, Hummingbirds Press)
Julia Halprin Jackson, co-founder, Play on Words, Nos. 9, 10, 13,& 37 from the series, What We Write About When We Write About Love
Lita Kurth, “Autobiography of the Letter A”
Cludia Monpere, “The Cleaning Woman”
Lucy Filppu, “We Are Told”
Sarah Kobrinsky, Emeryville Poet Laureate, “To the Tooth,” published in Berkeley Fiction Review, 2010
Victoria M. Johnson, “BooKstore Chat”
We are currently reviewing submissions for our August Forum. We look forward to reading your flash fiction!
May 14th, 2014
Authors and Works
Jan Berkeley, “Double Fantasy”
Victoria M. Johnson, “Thirteen Things toDo on Friday the 13th”
Emily Breunig, “For the Children,” an excerpt from her novel, A Ghost at The Edge of the Sea
Jessica Barksdale Inclan, “He Grabbed Me,” published in KneeJerk Magazine, Oct., 2013
Celia Stahr, “Detriot: Independence Day, 1932” drawn from a larger work in progress, Frida Kahlo in America: A Mexican Artist’s Cross-Cultral Journey Into the Unknown
Donnelle McGee, “Homecoming,” an excerpt from his new book, NAKED, due out in spring from small press Unbound Content
INTERMISSION
Marilyn Fahey, “Last Letter”
Allison Landa, “Creation,” published in Toasted Cheese and nominated for a Micro Award.
Leslie E. Hoffman, “Cecile Street,” first published in PenhouseInk’s Remembering Our Future
Lita Kurth, “Wow. Wolf,” published under a pseudonym in an undisclosed location
Leah Browning, “Touch,” first published in Wigleaf, Sept. 2012, http:wigleaf.com
Renee M. Schell, “Suburban Fantasy”
We are expecting a big crowd for our March 12th event. Get there early to find a seat. As usual, some of us will meet at Cafe Stritch before the readings for a drink and bite to eat. We promise to expose you to some inspiring and unique stories. See you there!