Bazaar Writers Salon at Lit Crawl
Schedule
Sat Oct 23 2021 at 08:00 pm
Location
The Chapel | San Francisco, CA
Bazaar Writers Salon is back for a special Lit Crawl reading! Please join us on Saturday, October 23rd for readings from six of our fabulous past readers in celebration of Bazaar Writers Salon’s tenth year.Readings by Derrick Austin, Micah Ballard, Peter Thomas Bullen, Rita Bullwinkel, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Kathleen Winter
Hosted by Peter Kline
Derrick Austin is the author of Tenderness, published by BOA Editions in the fall of 2021, and Trouble the Water, also from BOA Editions. He was a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
Micah Ballard is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW, 2019), Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Bootstrap Press, 2017, and Auguste Press, 2001), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Publishers, 2011), Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006). He lives in San Francisco and with poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is co-editor of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
Peter Thomas Bullen's first chapbook of short fiction, Wallflower, was published by Nomadic Press in 2016. Joshua Mohr said it "reads like a strange mashup of John Garth and Gary Lutz...playful and cerebral, funny and sad." Peter's work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review Of Books, Sparkle & blink, Red Light Lit, and eleven, eleven. His many live readings for Quiet Lightning can easily be found on YouTube.
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House, The White Review, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
Pireeni Sundaralingam’s poems have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review and Ploughshares, and been translated into five languages. She has held national fellowships in poetry, including the PEN USA Rosenthal Fellowship, and co-edited “Indivisible” the first anthology of South Asian American poetry, winner of the Northern California Book Award and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award. She has just been appointed college poet laureate at Oxford University’s oldest college.
Kathleen Winter is author of Transformer (2020), judge’s selection for The Word Works, Hilary Tham Collection; I will not kick my friends , winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize; and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters first book award and the Antivenom Poetry Prize. Her awards include the Poetry Society of America The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award and the Ralph Johnston Fellowship at University of Texas's Dobie Paisano Ranch.