The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Rachel Sontag, Jesse Dorris, and Elizabeth May to Bar on A. This reading starts earlier than usual: Please join us at 7:00 PM.
RACHEL SONTAG is the author of the memoir House Rules (HarperCollins). She was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in New York City. House Rules is her first book.
"Sontag’s is a brave account, not only of what it’s like to take the brunt of an abusive parent’s wrath, but of what it means to have the courage to leave."
— Publishers Weekly
JESSE DORRIS' writing has appeared in Out, Black Book, The Brooklyn Rail, The Salt River Review, and the anthologies New York Sex: Stories and Latin Lovers. He co-edited the anthology Bésame Mucho with Jaime Manrique. He received an MFA from the New School, and is currently at work on a novel.
ELIZABETH MAY doesn't like women in skirts. The best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. Elizabeth thinks this is the best costume for the day. She received her MFA in creative writing from the New School in 2006.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Reading Wednesday April 30th
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Felicia C. Sullivan, Eugene Hwang, and Brian Fender to Bar on A. Join us at 7:30 PM.
FELICIA C. SULLIVAN is a New York based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other publications. Recently, an excerpt from her memoir was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 collection. Algonquin Books published her memoir, THE SKY ISN’T VISIBLE FROM HERE in February of 2008. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook, and is also the co-founder of the Non-Fiction series at KGB Bar.
EUGENE HWANG received an MFA from New School University in 2007 and received an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for his story Counterclockwise. He currently lives in New Jersey and is working on his first novel, Consider the Ceiling. He is also helping to organize a symposium on the life and work of Alexander Lim, one of the most celebrated but misunderstood artists of our time.
BRIAN FENDER is a graduate of the New School University's MFA program for fiction writing. He spends the majority of his time walking the dog, commuting to work, selling beautiful but overpriced furniture, going to the gym, getting back on the train to go home and trying to get published somewhere in between.
FELICIA C. SULLIVAN is a New York based writer with an MFA from Columbia University. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other publications. Recently, an excerpt from her memoir was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 collection. Algonquin Books published her memoir, THE SKY ISN’T VISIBLE FROM HERE in February of 2008. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine and SLS Literary Seminars. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small Spiral Notebook, and is also the co-founder of the Non-Fiction series at KGB Bar.
EUGENE HWANG received an MFA from New School University in 2007 and received an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for his story Counterclockwise. He currently lives in New Jersey and is working on his first novel, Consider the Ceiling. He is also helping to organize a symposium on the life and work of Alexander Lim, one of the most celebrated but misunderstood artists of our time.
BRIAN FENDER is a graduate of the New School University's MFA program for fiction writing. He spends the majority of his time walking the dog, commuting to work, selling beautiful but overpriced furniture, going to the gym, getting back on the train to go home and trying to get published somewhere in between.
Friday, March 7, 2008
READING WEDNESDAY MARCH 26
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Alvin Eng, Todd Zuniga, James Stobie, and Jonathan Reed to Bar on A this month. Join us at 7:30 PM.
ALVIN ENG is a playwright, performer and educator. THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING'S FINAL MANIFESTO is his first formal foray into prose, and is based on his similarly titled memoir monologue which he has performed at Dixon Place and Pan Asian Rep. among others. Eng is the editor/compiler of the play anthology/oral history, TOKENS? THE NYC ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ON STAGE, that includes his play, The Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown. His plays and poetry have also been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and he has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered. Honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. He is a proud Flushing, Queens native who currently lives in Manhattan, and was named after the Chipmunk cartoon character. www.alvineng.com
TODD ZUNIGA is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. He is hard at work on the third draft of his second novel. During the day he works as a freelance editor for 1up.com and ESPN Video Games. He longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series victory and an EU passport.
JAMES STOBIE was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Portland State University in 2003. He has been published in the journal Anthos.
JONATHAN REED hails from Independence, Missouri. He got a degree in Philosophy in 1995 and not long after found himself living abroad, traveling extensively and occasionally teaching English. He lived in Prague for several years and then spent a year in rural Japan, on the gentle slopes of Mount Haruna. His last two months in Japan were spent in jail. He will be reading the beginning of the book he wrote describing that experience. He now lives in the East Village.
ALVIN ENG is a playwright, performer and educator. THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING'S FINAL MANIFESTO is his first formal foray into prose, and is based on his similarly titled memoir monologue which he has performed at Dixon Place and Pan Asian Rep. among others. Eng is the editor/compiler of the play anthology/oral history, TOKENS? THE NYC ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ON STAGE, that includes his play, The Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown. His plays and poetry have also been published in numerous anthologies and journals, and he has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered. Honors include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. He is a proud Flushing, Queens native who currently lives in Manhattan, and was named after the Chipmunk cartoon character. www.alvineng.com
TODD ZUNIGA is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. He is hard at work on the third draft of his second novel. During the day he works as a freelance editor for 1up.com and ESPN Video Games. He longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series victory and an EU passport.
JAMES STOBIE was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Portland State University in 2003. He has been published in the journal Anthos.
JONATHAN REED hails from Independence, Missouri. He got a degree in Philosophy in 1995 and not long after found himself living abroad, traveling extensively and occasionally teaching English. He lived in Prague for several years and then spent a year in rural Japan, on the gentle slopes of Mount Haruna. His last two months in Japan were spent in jail. He will be reading the beginning of the book he wrote describing that experience. He now lives in the East Village.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
READING WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27
The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series welcomes Ellis Avery, Aoibheann Sweeney, and Jessanne Collins to Bar on A this month. Join us at 7:30 for a special evening.
ELLIS AVERY - Named by New York Press as 2007’s Best Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now, Ellis Avery is the author of THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a first novel set in the tea ceremony world of 19th century Japan. Recently out in paperback from Riverhead Books, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE won three awards last year and is being translated into seven languages. Ellis lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Columbia.
AOIBHEANN SWEENEY has written book reviews for the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World and The Village Voice Literary Supplement. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her MFA at University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her first novel, Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking, was an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review, and is a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a finalist for the Border’s Original Voices Award. She is currently Director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
JESSANNE COLLINS is an editor at Playgirl magazine, where she writes features and odes to the phallic form. Her essays have recently appeared in the New York Press and on Salon.com. She has an MFA from the New School, and is the abandoner of three novels-in-progress, one of which is only one paragraph long.
ELLIS AVERY - Named by New York Press as 2007’s Best Writer You've Never Heard of But Should Go Read Right Now, Ellis Avery is the author of THE TEAHOUSE FIRE, a first novel set in the tea ceremony world of 19th century Japan. Recently out in paperback from Riverhead Books, THE TEAHOUSE FIRE won three awards last year and is being translated into seven languages. Ellis lives in New York and teaches creative writing at Columbia.
AOIBHEANN SWEENEY has written book reviews for the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World and The Village Voice Literary Supplement. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her MFA at University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her first novel, Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking, was an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review, and is a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a finalist for the Border’s Original Voices Award. She is currently Director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
JESSANNE COLLINS is an editor at Playgirl magazine, where she writes features and odes to the phallic form. Her essays have recently appeared in the New York Press and on Salon.com. She has an MFA from the New School, and is the abandoner of three novels-in-progress, one of which is only one paragraph long.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Guerrilla Lit Returns
Wednesday, January 30th at Bar on A
7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC
Music provided by GPod.
The Readers:
Dani Grammerstorf
Matthew Quinn Martin
Jared Hohl
Randall J. Lotowycz
DANI GRAMMERSTORF is a writer who lives in Queens with two roommates, a fish named Rupert, and a red Crock Pot. Dani has an M.F.A from the New School and is currently finishing her first novel. Her nonfiction writing will soon appear in Playgirl magazine. She is one of the founding members of Guerrilla Lit.
MATTHEW QUINN MARTIN is a New York based writer and director. His original screenplay Slingshot was bought by Bold Films and made into a feature film starring Julianna Margulies, David Arquette, Thora Birch, Balthazar Getty and Joely Fisher. Slingshot premiered at the TriBeCa film festival and is now available on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. His short film A Walk in the Park premiered at New York's Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, was chosen as a Best of Festival selection at The NYC downtown Short Film Festival, and nominated for best short at Hoboken International Film Festival. Matthew recently completed work on the novel version of Slingshot and is currently in preproduction for his feature film directing debut, the horror-thriller Vamp, from his original screenplay.
JARED HOHL is from Donnellson, Iowa. His writing has appeared in YRB Magazine, Topic Magazine, the Associated Press newswire, and in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader published by Thunder's Mouth Press (May 1, 2007).
RANDALL J. LOTOWYCZ has an MFA from the New School framed on his living room wall. Staring at it day in and day out, while never working on either of his two novels, inspired him to create the world's first magnetic dartboard calendar, which will be on sale this summer from Workman Publishing. The novels continue to remain unannounced.
7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC
Music provided by GPod.
The Readers:
Dani Grammerstorf
Matthew Quinn Martin
Jared Hohl
Randall J. Lotowycz
DANI GRAMMERSTORF is a writer who lives in Queens with two roommates, a fish named Rupert, and a red Crock Pot. Dani has an M.F.A from the New School and is currently finishing her first novel. Her nonfiction writing will soon appear in Playgirl magazine. She is one of the founding members of Guerrilla Lit.
MATTHEW QUINN MARTIN is a New York based writer and director. His original screenplay Slingshot was bought by Bold Films and made into a feature film starring Julianna Margulies, David Arquette, Thora Birch, Balthazar Getty and Joely Fisher. Slingshot premiered at the TriBeCa film festival and is now available on DVD, distributed by the Weinstein Co. His short film A Walk in the Park premiered at New York's Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, was chosen as a Best of Festival selection at The NYC downtown Short Film Festival, and nominated for best short at Hoboken International Film Festival. Matthew recently completed work on the novel version of Slingshot and is currently in preproduction for his feature film directing debut, the horror-thriller Vamp, from his original screenplay.
JARED HOHL is from Donnellson, Iowa. His writing has appeared in YRB Magazine, Topic Magazine, the Associated Press newswire, and in the anthology The Apocalypse Reader published by Thunder's Mouth Press (May 1, 2007).
RANDALL J. LOTOWYCZ has an MFA from the New School framed on his living room wall. Staring at it day in and day out, while never working on either of his two novels, inspired him to create the world's first magnetic dartboard calendar, which will be on sale this summer from Workman Publishing. The novels continue to remain unannounced.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Happy Holidays (Guerrillas on Vacation)
Thank you for helping us end the 2007 season of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series.
Please join us again in January as we kick off the 2008 season and come back to this site for updates on the wonderful authors we have in store for the new year.
Please join us again in January as we kick off the 2008 season and come back to this site for updates on the wonderful authors we have in store for the new year.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Reading Wednesday, November 28th
Join us for a very special reading this month. It's a fiction filled going away party for our dear friend, Connor Coyne. So come out and wish him well on his move to Chicago.
Wednesday, November 28th at Bar on A
7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC
Music provided by GPod.
The Readers:
Erik Rhey
Jessie Male
Bernie Kravitz
Connor Coyne
ERIK RHEY is a fiction writer and journalist originally from Wisconsin. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in fiction writing from The New School. His fiction has appeared in The Copperfield Review, Plum Biscuit, The Melic Review, and The Attic. Erik is also a senior editor at PC Magazine. He is currently working on his second novel and lives in Brooklyn.
JESSIE MALE graduated from Oberlin College in 2005 with a degree in creative writing. She grew up in Queens, lives in Brooklyn, and works full-time as a grant writer. Her writing has appeared in numerous trade and dance publications. She is currently working on her first nonfiction collection.
BERNARD J. KRAVITZ recently completed his MFA, in fiction, at the New School University. A responsible young man, who from time to time, puts food on the table as a freelance computer consultant. Until recently, he performed improv comedy around the country with Chicago City Limits, the critically-acclaimed national touring company. He was the founder and curator of 2773, a regular reading series in the East Village, featuring raw, unfinished short works by up-and-coming writers. His best fiction can be found in the love letters he writes to various glasses-wearing bookish types on the online personals. He lives in Brooklyn.
CONNOR COYNE grew up in the East Village of Flint, Michigan. He has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, and his contest winning dirty limerick was recently featured in the Dick Pig Review. He is a founding member of Chicago's Gothic Funk Nation and the Gothic Funk Triannual. He maintains a website at hereisnowhy
Wednesday, November 28th at Bar on A
7:30 PM - 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC
Music provided by GPod.
The Readers:
Erik Rhey
Jessie Male
Bernie Kravitz
Connor Coyne
ERIK RHEY is a fiction writer and journalist originally from Wisconsin. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in fiction writing from The New School. His fiction has appeared in The Copperfield Review, Plum Biscuit, The Melic Review, and The Attic. Erik is also a senior editor at PC Magazine. He is currently working on his second novel and lives in Brooklyn.
JESSIE MALE graduated from Oberlin College in 2005 with a degree in creative writing. She grew up in Queens, lives in Brooklyn, and works full-time as a grant writer. Her writing has appeared in numerous trade and dance publications. She is currently working on her first nonfiction collection.
BERNARD J. KRAVITZ recently completed his MFA, in fiction, at the New School University. A responsible young man, who from time to time, puts food on the table as a freelance computer consultant. Until recently, he performed improv comedy around the country with Chicago City Limits, the critically-acclaimed national touring company. He was the founder and curator of 2773, a regular reading series in the East Village, featuring raw, unfinished short works by up-and-coming writers. His best fiction can be found in the love letters he writes to various glasses-wearing bookish types on the online personals. He lives in Brooklyn.
CONNOR COYNE grew up in the East Village of Flint, Michigan. He has an MFA in Fiction from the New School, and his contest winning dirty limerick was recently featured in the Dick Pig Review. He is a founding member of Chicago's Gothic Funk Nation and the Gothic Funk Triannual. He maintains a website at hereisnowhy
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