Please join us for the first reading of the new anthology The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your Thirties, edited by Nicki Richesin. Each contributor will read for three minutes, followed by a panel. We’ll be taking questions and comments from the audience, of course. Where: A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco When: Monday, April 3, 7:00 p.m. followed by an after party at the Hotel Rex Bar, 562 Sutter Street Readers: Meghan Daum, Heather Juergensen, Erin Ergenbright, Michelle Richmond, Samina Ali, Kimberly Askew, Carla...
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Calvino Prize
The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. It will be awarded to an outstanding piece of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. (Please note that the prize is meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and is not meant to encourage merely imitative work.) Deadline: October 15, 2006. Details here.
Tanya Stone’s Literary Soundtrack
This week on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit: Tanya Stone, debut author of the young adult novelA Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (hmm, I suspected as much!), just out from Random House. Here’s what Tanya had to say about the musical accompaniment to her novel: There actually is a real live soundtrack! My hubby made it for the launch party and we played it that night. We also made one for the woman who helped me pull off the event (teen actors performed a play I scripted based on the book). OK, so on this CD are:...
Susan Steinberg reading
City Lights, April 6, 7:00 p.m. One swank writer at one classy bookstore. Susan will be reading from her second book, Hydroplane. You don’t want to miss this book. You don’t want to miss Susan. Plus, when is there ever a good reason not to hang out at City Lights? Grab a pizza at Tomaso’s across the street before the reading, then have a beer at Vesuvio.
getting ready
I’m doing a guest spot for Mark Sarvas today over at The Elegant Variation. Discussed: what it means to be thirty (never having to eat Pink Cloud).
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
