Chicago | June 29, 2008
Join us for a delightful evening of reading from Storystudio Students featuring the following Chicago writers:
Philip Stone is a Chicago musician and writer. He currently plays drums for the nationally touring rock band, Sanawon. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Life Sentences (Wipf and Stock, 2007) and Montage Magazine. Philip was a Splendid Magazine music critic for several years, but stopped once the threatening hate mail mentioned his family members by name. After a two year hiatus and strong encouragement from his therapist, Philip is writing again. Philip has a day job.
Steven Sacks: Since returning to Chicago from Ecuador, where he lived for ...
Nairobi | June 15, 2008
A literary evening with a government worker, a professor, a freelance writer, and a former drug trafficker? Indeed, it's happening at the next Salon Nairobi!
Judy Akinyi aka Saga McOdongo was a teacher at the Kenya Polytechnic until 2001 when she was introduced to drug trafficking by one of the most feared operators in the murky business at the time. She was jailed for 11 years for trafficking in drugs but the sentence was commuted on appeal. She was recently released from prison.
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Samuel Munene is a young Nairobi poet, short story writer, and contributor to Kwani? as well ...
NYC | June 8, 2008
Yowza! June blue skies and warmer weather have finally arrived! Sunday Salon turns SIX this month and we're delighted to celebrate with a stellar crew of writers.
Felicia C. Sullivan is the author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, which has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, USA Today, Newsday, and The Washington Post. She received her MFA from Columbia University's writing program and has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in anthologies and journals. ...
Chicago | May 25, 2008
In Celebration of Pilcrow Lit Festival, Sunday Salon Chicago Presents: Local Literary Magazines: A Fiction Editors' Reading!
Join us this Memorial Day Weekend on the last day of the festival, SUNDAY, MAY 25th @ The Charleston Bar (2076 N. Hoyne) 7:30pm
Come check out these local literary magazines, pick up an issue, and hear the editors read their own work.
FEATURING:
Chicago Review: Robert P. Baird is the editor of Chicago Review and a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Bookforum, and Chicago Magazine.
Make Magazine: Mike Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is co-founder, co-publisher, and fiction editor ...
Nairobi | May 18, 2008
The literary talent is bursting at the seams in Kenya. Poets, writers, and a vodka connoisseur keep it real at the next Sunday Salon Nairobi!
Alison Ojany Owuor is a young published poet who has presented her work in different public forums. She got her voters card and also graduated from college late last year. She is looking for three things: meaningful work, Kenyans who are of the ethnic group enyan, and hopeful imaginings in red, green, white and black.
Kinyanjui Kombani is a graduate of Kenyatta University. His book, The Last Villains of Molo was born out of Kinyanjui's experiences both ...
NYC | May 11, 2008
Please join us for a special Mother's Day Salon celebrating Issue Six of The Mom Egg! Raw and real, lively and lustful, The Mom Egg is an annual collection of poetry, prose, and drawings by creative artists who are also mothers. Poets, lyricists, humorists, and essayists, from new moms to grandmothers, examine issues ranging from single-motherhood, dating younger men, separation anxiety, breasts, caring for older parents, the changing nuclear family and sex. Enjoy some intimate moments with Moms from all over North America. Diverse, multi-generational, and not just for Mother's Day! The Mom Egg is the official literary publication of the Mamapalooza Festival....
Nairobi | April 20, 2008
Nairobi glows incandescent with four more writers at this month's reading. The luminary literary lineup includes: an architect turned journalist, a travel writer from Canada, a prize-winning fiction writer, and a singer/poet.
Millicent Muthoni is a trained architect turned journalist in real estate and a columnist with the Standard. Her short story was published in the Caine Prize anthology, Jambula Tree and other Stories, 2007.
Arno Kopecky is a freelance journalist and travel writer from Vancouver, Canada. He is based in Nairobi and is an editor at Kwani
Kingwa Kamencu is a journalist writing for the Media Institute's magazine- Expression Today (ET) and a contributor with 'The Standard' newspaper. Her first ...
NYC | April 13, 2008
April showers bring...four literary gems to the next Sunday Salon! So ready yourself for some bright, shiny prose and leave your umbrellas at home (um, unless, it's really raining outside).
Janice Erlbaum (www.janiceerlbaum.com) is the author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March '06), and Have You Found Her: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. '08). She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.
Paul Pines grew up in New York City and is the author of six books of poetry, including his most recent Taxidancing. His novel, The ...
Nairobi | March 16, 2008
More writers, more stories, more of Kenya's finest: Judy Kibinge, Barrack Muluka, Shalini Gidoomal, Dr. Patrick "PLO" Lumumba. Four unique voices in a tranquil outdoor setting. All Sunday Salon Alumni are entitled to one free entry ticket.
NYC | March 16, 2008
Ah spring! Well, almost. We'll approach the new season in the company of four literary luminaries who write across the genres, teach, act, and inspire. Come see (and hear) for yourself!
Luis H. Francia is a poet, nonfiction writer/journalist, and playwright. His last collection of poetry was Museum of Absences (2004). His memoir Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He has edited a number of anthologies, including Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English. His dramatic piece, The Beauty of Ghosts, was staged at Topaz Arts in Queens ...
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