Chicago | April 27, 2008
You won't want to miss the literary talent in Chi-town this Sunday! The powerhouse lineup includes a renowned Iraqi novelist, a veteran crime writer, and the co-founder of the Quickies! reading series.
Mahmoud Saeed is a prominent and award-winning Iraqi novelist. He has written more than 20 novels and short story collections, including Port Said and Other Stories, which was published in 1957. The first military-Baathist Iraqi government seized two of his novels in 1963. Saeed was imprisoned several times and he left Iraq in 1985 after the authorities banned the publication of some of his novels, including Zanka bin ...
Chicago | March 30, 2008
MARY ANNE MOHANRAJ is the author of BODIES IN MOTION, a set of Sri Lankan-American linked stories, covering two families and three generations (HarperCollins). She currently teaches fiction writing and Asian American literature at Northwestern University, and is working on a mainstream novel, a memoir/travelogue, and a YA fantasy novel. Mohanraj recently received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose. She currently serves as the Executive Director of DesiLit (desilit.org), an organization that works to support S. Asian and diaspora literature, and also directs the Speculative Literature Foundation(speclit.org). Mohanraj was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. maryannemohanraj.com
ELIZABETH WETMORE's stories have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, ...
NYC | January 20, 2008
If you think the caucuses are engrossing—the persona battle, the tireless campaigning, the confident and the conflicted voters—check out the next Sunday Salon! This sure-to-knock-your-socks-off lineup of writers include a veteran of Sunday Salon, a former criminal defense and constitutional lawyer, and an accomplished softball player. Turn out and support these luminous, literary talents!
Named by New York Press as The Best Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now, Ellis Avery is a Sunday Salon veteran and the author of a first novel called The Teahouse Fire. Recently out in paperback from ...
NYC | December 2007
Sunday Salon December 9, 2007: Writings from the School of Dreams
Pamela Brown dreams best in the stolen hours of the morning when she should be working. She teaches literature and drama at the University of Connecticut, where she curates the Moving Words poetry series. She has published poetry in Frontier, Public, P/rose and Myriads and has reviewed for Parnassus. A playwright and songwriter, she has performed her work in New York City, Cambridge, Mass., and Ankara, Turkey. Her photographs were recently exhibited at Crow Town Gallery in Lubec, Maine.
Laura Cronk has published poems in Barrow Street, Conduit, LIT, Lyric, No Tell Motel ...
Chicago | November 2007
Cris Mazza is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Waterbaby, released this month from Soft Skull Press. Her other fiction titles include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, and the PEN Nelson Algren Award winning How to Leave a Country. She also has a collection of personal essays, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian. Mazza has had a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Illinois Arts Council literary awards. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. Currently she lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers ...
NYC | November 2007
These four writers from New York, Chicago, and Connecticut will assault and fine tune your senses with their stories. Not all at once. And they'll be nice about it. We think.
Justin Courter's novel Skunk: A Love Story was published by Omnidawn Press in June 2007. A collection of his prose poems, The Death of the Poem and Other Paragraphs, will by published by Main Street Rag in 2008. His work has appeared in the fiction anthology Paraspheres, and in many literary journals, including Pleiades, The Literary Review, Fugue, ...
NYC | October 2007
On October 21st, Sunday Salon welcomes four more talented writers from near and far.
Anne Landsman (annelandsman.com) is the author of the novel, The Devil's Chimney (Soho, 1997; Penguin trade paperback, 1999), nominated for four awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award for a distinguished first book of fiction. Originally from South Africa, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children, and remarks on the setting of her books, "some portion of my heart will always beat in that opposite hemisphere, in the shadow of the Brandwacht mountains, not far from the house with the ...
Chicago | October 2007
Samuel Park is a Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he is a graduate of Stanford and USC. His short film Shakespeare's Sonnets has played numerous film festivals, including San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, and Southwest international gay and lesbian film festivals, and is available on DVD in the anthology Boys' Briefs 3. Shakespeare's Sonnets, published by Alyson Books, is his first novel.
Elizabeth Reeder,lived in Glasgow, Scotland for twelve years and her fiction appears in respected journals and anthologies in the UK and the US (Women's Press, Polygon, Hanging Loose, Chapman, PN Review). Recently, she had an original drama, stories and an abridgement broadcast on ...
NYC | Readings 2005-2007
Until we get the new website up and running, here is a recap of past Sunday Salons:
David Gates is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Preston Falls (National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist), and The Wonders of the Invisible World (Vintage). He has published short stories in Esquire magazine and Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, and TriQuarterly. David is currently a senior writer in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music. He also teaches at the graduate program at Bennington College in Vermont and The New School in New York City.
Jess Row's collection of stories, The Train to Lo Wu, ...
Chicago | September 2007
Since 1994, Jennifer Harris' poetry has appeared in numerous national literary magazines including multiple publications in the New York Quarterly, Fish Stories, and HLLQ. Her first novel, PINK, was published in January 2007 by Haworth Press. She received her MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from The University of Arizona.
Elizabeth Bagby is a Chicago writer, actor, and musician. She is a founding member of Sansculottes Theater Company, who produced her musical Practical Anatomy at the Storefront Theater last year. She has performed with numerous Chicago companies, including Sansculottes, Trap Door, the Right Brain Project, Striding Lion, Tangerine Arts Group, ...
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