Prose in the Afternoon at SPC
Scientists tell us we're made of atoms, but a little bird told me,
We are made of stories.” Eduardo Galeano
Join our featured readers in an intimate setting at Prose in the Afternoon at SPC. Bring your best “hook” for the open mic consisting of your funniest, sexiest, saddest, happiest, and or most mysterious 100 words or less that will entice the reader to want to read everything you've ever written. Share your work in a supportive atmosphere. Light refreshments will be served and we will have the occasional surprise guest!
Join our featured readers in an intimate setting at Prose in the Afternoon at SPC. Bring your best “hook” for the open mic consisting of your funniest, sexiest, saddest, happiest, and or most mysterious 100 words or less that will entice the reader to want to read everything you've ever written. Share your work in a supportive atmosphere. Light refreshments will be served and we will have the occasional surprise guest!
Where: Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816
Hosts: Jennifer Pickering, Todd Boyd and Michelle Woods
Our Features will be:
Lois Ann Abraham-is a prize winning author of Circus Girl and Other Stories, and Tina Goes to Heaven, a novel. She is presently on the home stretch with her next novel, The Long Art. You may also know her from ARC where she taught English and read at Summer Words and Avid Reader.
Anara Guard’s-Remedies for Hunger, a collection of short stories, was praised by Chicago Book Review and added to their Best Books List of 2014!
Lois Ann Abraham-is a prize winning author of Circus Girl and Other Stories, and Tina Goes to Heaven, a novel. She is presently on the home stretch with her next novel, The Long Art. You may also know her from ARC where she taught English and read at Summer Words and Avid Reader.
Anara Guard’s-Remedies for Hunger, a collection of short stories, was praised by Chicago Book Review and added to their Best Books List of 2014!
http://newwindpublishing.com/book/remedies-for-hunger/
Hand on My Heart, my brand new collection of poetry, praised by poet Jan Haag-- http://newwindpublishing.com/book/hand/
anara@anaraguard.com
Hand on My Heart, my brand new collection of poetry, praised by poet Jan Haag-- http://newwindpublishing.com/book/hand/
Recently, I listened to a audio file of my mom, reciting the story, The Night Before Christmas. I was touched to tears. Mom has been gone for seventeen years now, but her stories were important in forging my love of reading and writing. When I was a child I loved “story-time,” at bedtime or occasionally in the classroom. I still am an avid reader and often waking from a relentless sleep reach for a good book before hot milk.
Our daughter too looked forward to a nightly bedtime stories and this became a family ritual. As she grew older, it seemed television replaced books for her and my husband, Mike and I worried, but both kept reading our own books just the same.
I remember when the Harry Potter novels became the rage and the fanfare that surrounded the fourth book launch. This series sparked an interest in books again for our daughter and we breathed a sign of relief. Her dad took her down to the old Tower bookstore in our hometown of Sacramento to wait in line until the doors opened at midnight. That night the media was out in full force including our local news paper, the Sacramento Bee. A reporter asked if they could take a picture of my husband and daughter, Aubrey. They were the third in a line that wrapped around the block. The doors flew open at midnight and they quickly picked up her copy of the book.
The next day we left for our road trip up north to Mt. Shasta and then to Crater Lake.
We took turns reading from “our” Harry Potter book. At a gas stop in Mt. Shasta we decided to pick up a news paper that turned out to be our local paper. There on the front page was our daughter and her dad in line for the Harry Potter book launch!
So, I entreat you to come listen to featured local writers share their stories of fiction, memoirs, flash fiction, and Creative Non fiction at Prose in the Afternoon at S.P.C. (Sacramento Poetry Center your literary source for 40 years).
And share your prose of a 100 words or less at the Open Mic. Bring your most provocative passage to share that will make us laugh, shudder or weep! But make us want to read more of your writing!
The series runs the third Sunday of the month at SPC 4-5:30 beginning in Oct.-Jan.Oct. 20, 2019, Nov. 17, 2019, Dec., 15 Jan. 19th
See you at the Sacramento Poetry Center Oct. 20th 4-5:30. The featured writer at this writing is Sue Owens Wright. http://www.sueowenswright.com/
1719 25th
Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
Sacramentopoetrycenter.org
Sacramento, CA 95816
Sacramentopoetrycenter.org
Jennifer
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