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An announcement from Mel Favara, organizer of the 1,000 Words Reading Series:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1,000 WORDS READING: INTELLIGENCE
7PM sharp, MONDAY, August 31 AT THE MAIDEN, 639 SE MORRISON STREET (503-232-5553)
FREE
ALL-AGES VENUE UNTIL 10; THE READING WILL BE OVER BY 9
PETE KREBS TO FOLLOW
CONTACT: MEL FAVARA, 971-506-3340, mel.favara@gmail.com1,000 Words returns Monday, August 31 at the Maiden for the newest chapter in a Oulipean experiment: five writers wrote on the theme INTELLIGENCE, penning 250 words per week in response to prompts extracted by series curator Mel Favara from Raymond Chandler’s essay “The Simple Art of Murder”—only they didn’t know where the prompts originated. The results, as per usual, have been wildly divergent, smart, and fresh: want to see how five different authors employed the phrase, “Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street”? Join us Monday at the Maiden!
Kristy Athens writes nonfiction and short fiction that has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, most recently The Smoking Poet, Babel Fruit, Greenbeard, and Tonopah Review, and forthcoming from High Desert Journal and Stone’s Throw. She also makes text-infused, repurposed collage greeting cards: http://ithaka.etsy.com.
Lucie Bonvalet teaches French at the Alliance Francaise, writes for a French zine called Globulot, volunteers in local dance projects whenever possible and studies tai chi and Japanese.
Paul Giger, a psychiatrist, writes fiction and also changes the world.
Courtney Tenz, a brilliant nonfiction writer, took her MFA at Penn State and now lives in Berlin, where she writes, teaches, and raises a beautiful baby named Amine, which is Persian for hope, I think.
Gordon Buffonge hails from Montserrat; he writes fiction, has taught at PSU, and is generally the bomb.
We Play Quiet, an emo-punk trio from Vancouver, will be playing their last show before leaving for college: they’ll be playing songs based on the writers’ prompts.
