Saturday Night Special

Description

Join us on the last Saturday of every month for an evening of literary performances with featured readers, drink specials, and an open mic. We'd love to hear your poems, stories and comedic sketches on our optional monthly theme (or any topic). We'll have some ridiculous prizes to celebrate your creative efforts. Or, you can just sit back, sip the tasty beverage of your choice, and enjoy the show!

Eat more! Drink more! Watch more TV! Procrastinate! Avoid the gym!
Resolutions are made to be broken.

That's why the theme for our January 2012 writing challenge is: "BROKEN RESOLUTIONS."

Our January features are: LJ Moore & Chanel Timmons

14 open mic slots. Sign-up starts at 7pm
and closes at 7:30pm when the reading starts.
Each reader will have 3-5 minutes maximum.

FREE!
But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks

Hosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/284638664922405/

Join our fan page, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic/112174188880786

LJ MOORE'S poetry, essays, and photography have appeared in Spectrum, Midnight Zoo, Danse Macabre, Coracle, 14 Hills, Limestone,Jacket, Kalliope, Transfer, Goetry, Sidebrow, Instant City, We Still Like, Artsmith, The Chiron Review, The Bold Italic, and Quiet Lightning. Her book, F-Stein, tells the story of family through pop culture, science, and the paranormal in the form of a replicating strand of DNA. Her book reviews have appeared in Jacket, Rain Taxi, Publisher's Weekly, http://Examiner.com, and Litseen. She is a co-founder of Small Desk Press, and is now a director/producer for Invisible City Audio Tours, which brings writers, composers, and visual artists together to create permanent (and free) public art installations in the form of self-guided audio tours . L.J. Moore was a 2010 writer in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and lives in San Francisco, where she spends her weekends sailing an invisible pirate ship powered by rubber bands.

CHANEL TIMMONS takes pride in her art's deviation from most rules and expectations. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she has a bit of home-grown rebellion flowing through her veins that leaks out in mellow doses. When the times demand for poets to write about loud revolution, count on her to be writing about that one hushed moment you thought you forgot in the middle of the chaos. Poetic stories on life blurred in between the lines of dirty made beautiful: she's all about it. Chanel has two chapbooks about love, sex, rage, seduction, loss, and how to improperly handle it all. Hush, and 'L' (is for Liar) are currently available upon request. Timmons' third collection is well on its way. Contact: [email protected].

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East...

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510.652.6425