Prompt This Write #11
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Join us on Sunday, November 15 at 7:00PM at Adobe Books in San Francisco for our 11th annual game of literary telephone—eight writers, eight stories, each one providing inspiration for the next. We're excited to share these pieces with you (and with each other!) for the very first time.
Here are our readers:
Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau has covered baseball in Cuba, taught salsa in Liberia, and done improv in Istanbul. She has read her award-winning fiction and poetry on five continents and works with various UN agencies. Her most recent poetry collection, Monarch, examines overlooked histories from the US West.
Andrew O. Dugas
Andrew O. Dugas's work has appeared in Unlikely Stories, 100 Word Story, Crack the Spine, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. Play your cards right, and he'll mail you a haiku.
Matt Leibel
Matt Leibel is a writer, a part-time tennis instructor, and a novice mahjong player. His collection of tiny third-person autobiographies, Tiny Third-Person Autobiographies (from which this bio is excerpted) is not being published any time soon. Read more if you like at mattleibel.com.
Tony Press
Tony Press has played catch with Juan Marichal, chatted with Alexander Kerensky, and entered, by mistake, a room for hearing confessions at a cathedral in Oaxaca, Mexico. His story collection CROSSING THE LINES is available through libraries, independent bookstores, and directly from him.
Anne Trausch
Anne Trausch once worked for an ad agency that employed an African Grey parrot in HR. African Greys are known for their ability to understand the concept of zero which, coincidentally, is also the number of publications Anne’s stories have appeared in to date. Relatedly, one is the number of horned puffins Anne voiced in a television campaign she wrote while at said agency.
Rachel Wong
Rachel Wong has worked as a researcher for most of her career, but has also done stints as a writer, audio producer, and adjunct professor. She’s a middle child and a Gemini who will happily go to movie theaters solo. Her creative writing lives mostly inside notebooks, folders, and a series of writing groups, retreats, and classes, but she’s nearly ready to bust out.
Liz Worthy
Liz Worthy was born in San Jose, grew up in Montana, and returned to the Bay Area as a young adult. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and The Bold Italic. She is currently working on an autobiographical graphic novel that she is co-creating with her 9-year-old daughter.
Sonya Worthy
Sonya Worthy was also born in San Jose, grew up in Montana, and returned to the Bay Area, 2 years after Liz Worthy. She has interviewed and photographed people reading books in every U.S. state except Alaska. Her writing has been published in the San Francisco zine, Instant City.
Here are our readers:
Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau has covered baseball in Cuba, taught salsa in Liberia, and done improv in Istanbul. She has read her award-winning fiction and poetry on five continents and works with various UN agencies. Her most recent poetry collection, Monarch, examines overlooked histories from the US West.
Andrew O. Dugas
Andrew O. Dugas's work has appeared in Unlikely Stories, 100 Word Story, Crack the Spine, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. Play your cards right, and he'll mail you a haiku.
Matt Leibel
Matt Leibel is a writer, a part-time tennis instructor, and a novice mahjong player. His collection of tiny third-person autobiographies, Tiny Third-Person Autobiographies (from which this bio is excerpted) is not being published any time soon. Read more if you like at mattleibel.com.
Tony Press
Tony Press has played catch with Juan Marichal, chatted with Alexander Kerensky, and entered, by mistake, a room for hearing confessions at a cathedral in Oaxaca, Mexico. His story collection CROSSING THE LINES is available through libraries, independent bookstores, and directly from him.
Anne Trausch
Anne Trausch once worked for an ad agency that employed an African Grey parrot in HR. African Greys are known for their ability to understand the concept of zero which, coincidentally, is also the number of publications Anne’s stories have appeared in to date. Relatedly, one is the number of horned puffins Anne voiced in a television campaign she wrote while at said agency.
Rachel Wong
Rachel Wong has worked as a researcher for most of her career, but has also done stints as a writer, audio producer, and adjunct professor. She’s a middle child and a Gemini who will happily go to movie theaters solo. Her creative writing lives mostly inside notebooks, folders, and a series of writing groups, retreats, and classes, but she’s nearly ready to bust out.
Liz Worthy
Liz Worthy was born in San Jose, grew up in Montana, and returned to the Bay Area as a young adult. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and The Bold Italic. She is currently working on an autobiographical graphic novel that she is co-creating with her 9-year-old daughter.
Sonya Worthy
Sonya Worthy was also born in San Jose, grew up in Montana, and returned to the Bay Area, 2 years after Liz Worthy. She has interviewed and photographed people reading books in every U.S. state except Alaska. Her writing has been published in the San Francisco zine, Instant City.
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