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Next Performance:
Friday, July 30th, 2010, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street (Between Q & R)
Featuring the work of
Heather Brittain Bergstrom
and Kathryn Williams
donation: $5
Join us for refreshments, beginning 7PM |
Sacramento's newest monthly reading series features short fiction by established and emerging writers from Sacramento and surrounding areas, introduced by their authors and read by actors. The series will run on the last Friday of every month. My thanks to The Sacramento Poetry Center for supporting the literary arts across genres. To show your support for all they do for the Sacramento writing community, consider becoming a member. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for this series, please send a message via the form under the contact tab or join our fan page on Facebook. The Sacramento Press wrote a feature of Stories on Stage. You can read the article here. Stories on Stage visited Capitol Public Radio's Insight program. Listen to the interview with host Valerie Fioravanti, writer Naomi Williams, and actor William Kay here. Stories on Stage now has T-shirts, designed by Kirk Parker, available for $15. These shirts will benefit the "pay the artists" fund. | |
| CALL FOR STORIES
Two stories will be featured at each event, one from a writer with a short story collection or equivalent publication history, and one from an emerging writer. An emerging writer need not have previous publications in order to be selected. To submit a story for possible inclusion in the series, email your story as an attachment (.doc or .rtf only), and include a brief bio and publication history, if applicable. Please submit only one story, between 1000-4000 words. I am looking for stories that work well when read aloud, and not all short stories make a smooth transition off the page (this is true of some of my best stories. If you've never read your work aloud, I recommend a test run before you submit). Short stories only, please. No novel excerpts, essays/memoir, short plays/scripts, or monologues will be considered. Writers from Sacramento and surrounding areas (from Northern CA to the Reno/Tahoe area).
CALL FOR ACTORS
If you are an actor interested in participating in this series, please email an audio file sample performance. Please submit a short story to be considered, not a monologue, and please identify the title and author of the story you select. If you don't have a favorite short story, you may use James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" found here or Alexi Zentner's "Furlough" here (there are many wonderful short stories published online, if these two do not please you). The sample need only be a few minutes long. If you'd like to audition in person, that can also be arranged. CALL FOR FILMMAKERS
- I'm looking for filmmakers to film the event and conduct short interviews with the writers and actors involved, creating a mini-documentary. Please email me if you are interested in supporting this cross-disciplinary artistic endeavor.
CALL FOR CHEFS
I'm looking for chefs to serve an appetizer at the Stories on Stage events in exchange for promotional considerations and a small grocery allowance. Please email me if you would like to be involved in this pan-artistic series. | |
| FEATURED WRITERS & PERFORMERS |  | Heather Brittain Bergstrom has won awards from Narrative Magazine, Chicago Tribune and Atlantic Monthly. Her story “All Sorts of Hunger” won the 2010 Kore Press Short Fiction Award and will be published as a chapbook this fall. She recently completed her first story collection, Lake with the Dead Indian Chief’s Name, and is presently at work on a novel. She holds a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. Born and raised in a small farming town in eastern Washington, she currently lives in the Sacramento Valley with her husband and two children. | 
| Kathryn Williams teaches composition at Sacramento City College and UC Davis. Her work has appeared in the Blue Moon Literary Review and received Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Library Writing Contest. She lives in Davis with her husband, and is currently working on a collection of linked short stories. | 
| Joshua Glenn Robertson has been performing and supporting local theatre in Sacramento for three years. Hailing originally from Santa Barbara County, Joshua has enjoyed performing with such theatres as Big Idea Theatre, Artistic Differences Theatre Company, Beyond the Proscenium, and Resurrection Theatre. Joshua thanks you for supporting the arts! He will be reading Heather Brittain Bergstrom’s “Farm in a Day.” | | | Marsh McCandless has performed on stages across Sacramento and the Bay Area for more than thirty years. He will be reading Kathryn Williams' "Three, Four, Knock at the Door." | 
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Kirk Parker is a local poet, publicist, screen printer, and budding documentary filmmaker. He regularly shares his time and talents with other emerging artists who have proven expertise in their field. Kirk's Stories on Stage t-shirts will benefit our "pay the artists" fund. Kirk lives in West Sacramento. You can view his t-shirt designs here.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Becky Hagenston, author of the story collections A Graham of Mars and Strange Weather and emerging writer David Hagerty September 24th Stacia Saint Owens, author of the story collection Auto-Erotica and emerging writer Maureen O'Leary October 29th Angie Chau, author of the forthcoming story collection Quiet as they Come and emerging writer Alex Dezen | |
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