Fierce & "Just Working On My Novel"

RussComm is presenting two book events in NYC in the coming week-on Oct 18th at 7:30 P.M. and on Oct 19th at 7:30 P.M. This is a "mark-your-calendar" reminder.

Oct 18th, 7:30 P.M.

at The Tank Upstairs (354 W 45th St, NY NY)

FIERCE

An evening of intense voices in fiction and literary-themed burlesque

Featuring:

Elise Blackwell (SC)
Collin Kelley (GA)
Katie Kitamura (NYC)
Sarah Rainone (NYC)
D.E. Rasso (NYC)

Performances by members of Storybook Burlesque

Fierce is a night celebrating the powerful, the moving, the offensive and the exhilarating in modern fiction, gathering 5 of the most exciting writers currently putting pen to paper.

Readers include current South Carolina-based Elise Blackwell, author of three critically acclaimed novels, "Hunger", "The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish", and "Grub", with a fourth on the way in 2010; Award-winning Atlanta poet and journalist Collin Kelley, whose recently-published first novel "Conquering Venus" is a triumph of heart, sex, time and place; world traveler Katie Kitamura, whose novel "The Longshot", about the inense underground world of Mixed Martial Arts, has her being called “the second coming of Hemingway”; Sarah Rainone, author of high school yearbook from hell coming of age novel "Love Will Tear Us Apart" that’s as sexy, bittersweet and unnerving as the song it takes its name from; and D.E. Rasso, cult-fave writer/blogger/expert on ways to kill a man using only one hand, recently published to great critical acclaim in the renowned breakup story collection "Love Is A Four-Letter Word".

Supplementing the readings will be performances by the literary-themed Storybook Burlesque troupe, ensuring the level of connection between the visual and the audible, the written and the seen, never drops.

Fierce: Not necessarily for adults only, definitely not for lovers only, but only for those with a desire for the sharper side of fiction.

and then

Oct 19

730 PM

The Tank downstairs (354 W 45th ST)

"Just Working On My Novel"

The bi-monthly reading series that's drunken and curious. That makes it drunkenly bi-curious.

"Just Working On My Novel"-a night to air the bones and skeletons rattling in the closet, that take the shape of half-finished, mid-craft pieces of fiction and nonfiction. It is a reading series, and it is awesome. It is a force of nature, and it tastes like candy.

"Just Working On My Novel"-Because everyone's writing a novel. There are some who believe everyone should write a novel. Obviously Lauren Conrad agrees. If she can do it, are you telling me you can't? It doesn't even have to BE a novel. Nonfiction works, too, but "Just Working On My Somethin' Somethin' " doesn't have the same ring to it.

Host for this go-round of Just Working On My Novel are not one but TWO esteemed authors-South Carolina's Elise Blackwell and Atlanta's Collin Kelley.

Collin is an award-winning poet and journalist, and has recently published his first novel, "Conquering Venus". Elise has released three novels to critical acclaim, "Hunger", "Grub" and "The Unnatural History Of Cypress Parish" and is on the faculty at the University of South Carolina.

What Elise and Collin will do: read from what they've published. Read from unpublished works. Talk to you. Drink.

What you will do: Show up at 7 to inquire about a place in line to read your 5-10 minute unpublished work of fiction or nonfiction. Be prepared for critiques. Drink. Donate to support the tank nonprofit art space, because it loves you and you love it.

Lastly, lastly, lassssstly: READING SPOTS ARE INCREDIBLY LIMITED. BRING YOUR "A" GAME AND YOUR ON-TIME SHOES...and a sense of humor.

Bribes, inquiries into reading spots or...well, bribes, can be sent to russcommunications at gmail.com

Signup at 7, readings at 730.

eliseblackwell.com
collinkelley.blogspot.com

ALSO AT OCTOBER'S JUST WORKING ON MY NOVEL:

the launch of a VERY SPECIAL vlog that will change your life forever.

Comments

[Ryan Field]

I saw your vlog on the swivet and linked to it. Very good...