Rhapsodomancy Announces the Writers Reading on Sunday, August 19 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:15pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com
$3 suggested donation at door; after expenses, a portion of the proceeds will benefit Hedgebrook, a nonprofit that invests in women who write by providing them with space and time to create significant work, in solitude and community, and by developing an international network to connect writers and audiences.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Mary Otis's short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries was published this past May by Tin House Books. She has also had stories published in Best New American Voices, Los Angeles Times, Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Literary Journal, Santa Monica Review, Tin House Literary Journal, and the Alaska Review. Her story "Pilgrim Girl" received an honorable mention for a Pushcart Prize, and her story "Unstruck" was cited in 100 Distinguished Stories in the Best American Short Stories 2006. A 2007 Walter Dakin Fellow, Mary currently lives in Los Angeles. http://www.maryotis.com
Larkin Higgins is a writer and artist living in Los Angeles. Her poetry is included in anthologies published by University of Iowa Press, Fossil Press, Tebot Bach, and Red Wind. An artist-in-residency at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002, her writing has also appeared in Genre, Saturday Afternoon Journal, Beyond Baroque Magazine and elsewhere. Her artworks have been reviewed &/or published in Artweek, The Boston Globe, Antiques & The Arts Weekly (New York), U-Turn, The Los Angeles Times, and others. As a member of Perimeter Arts Collective, Higgins performed original text at Highways, Occidental College, and The World Stage. She earned her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. In Ventura County she teaches college drawing, painting, and a writing-intensive for senior art majors.
Jillian Lauren is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in Pindeldyboz Magazine, Opium Magazine, The Chiron Review, Society, Pale House: A Collective and will soon be in the upcoming anthology My First Time, a collection of first punk show stories. She was a semifinalist in the 2006 Project: QueerLit contest. She has participated in spoken word events in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, including Tongue and Groove, Talk, Talk, Talk and Words like Sugar. She also performs in various film and theater projects and has worked with directors as diverse as Richard Foreman, Lynne Breedlove and Margaret Cho. She lives in Los Angeles and is working on a novel.
Born in West "by God" Virginia, Crystal Allene Cook is a self-described "hillbilly-New-Yorker-Angelena." A Barnard alumna and a creative writing Fulbright recipient, Cook holds an MST from The New School and a MFA in Writing from Antioch LA. In addition to her long-time day-job commitment to education and to women's/girls' issues, her creative work has appeared in Shenandoah, The Flint Hills Review, The Southeast Review, Ararat, and online in CARVE and southernhum. She most recently finished writing a novel set during the war in the 1990's between Armenia and Azerbaijan. You can also catch her around town gigging with several bands, playing E-flat tuba.
