Our Next Event:
Friday, May 25th, 2012, 7:30PM
An evening featuring the literary magazine
Joyland: A Hub for Short Fiction
with Kara Levy, editor of the San Francisco hub
and writers Erica Lorraine Scheidt & Zoe Ferraris
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street (@R)
Donation: $5
Doors open 7PM
FEATURED WRITERS & PERFORMERS
Kara Levy‘s fiction appears in Mississippi Review Prize Stories 2009, Alaska Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, The Huffington Post, Drunken Boat, Zen Monster, and Narrative Magazine, where she was a winner of the 30Below Prize for writers under 30. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University and a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University, she lives in San Francisco, where she is the San Francisco editor of Joyland Magazine.
Zoë Ferraris moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the First Gulf War to live with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins. Her novels FINDING NOUF and CITY OF VEILS are national bestsellers and have sold in 30 countries. FINDING NOUF also won the LA Times Book Award and an Alex Award. A third novel, KINGDOM OF STRANGERS, will be out in June 2012. “Tarantella” is her first short story to appear in over a decade and was inspired by her time spent in southern Italy. She has an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco. Her website is www.zoeferraris.com.
Erica Lorraine Scheidt is a writer and a teaching artist living in Berkeley, California. Currently an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Erica’s working on her second novel for young adults, tentatively titled A Girl Like Me. Her first novel, Uses for Boys, is due from St. Martin’s Press in early 2013. A longtime volunteer at 826 Valencia, Erica is also a board member of ISIS, a nonprofit dedicated to sex education for young people.
Eric Baldwin’s Shakespeare roles include Macbeth, Henry V, Romeo, Bottom and Shylock. Other favorites: Henry in The Fox, Joe Pitt in Angels in America, Biff in Death of a Salesman, Pale in Burn This, Lee Atwater in ATWATER: Fixin to Die, Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, Barry Champlain in Talk Radio, Ralph Clark in Our Countrys Good (Backstage West Garland Award) and Hally in MASTER HAROLD. Eric was last seen in True West at Capital Stage and Smudge at KOLT Run Creations. He can soon be seen as Prospero in The Tempest at Murphys Creek Theatre this July.
Gay Cooper is originally from Knoxville, TN, where she performed in community and regional theaters, as well as appearing in commercials and industrial films. She was also an announcer with the local NPR station. In Sacramento, she has acted with Big Idea Theater, KOLT Run Creations, Resurrection Theater, California Stage, & Thistle Dew Dessert Theater. She was most recently seen as French Fries in “Talking With” and Miss Poppengul in “Moonlight and Magnolias.”
- Sacramento’s 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 runs on the final Friday of every month.
- Sacramento News & Review recognized Stories on Stage in its 2011 Best of Sacramento Issue. It named founder and host Valerie Fioravanti a “Best Friend to Fiction Writers” for her work with the series. You can read the profile here.
- Stories on Stage now has a blog, featuring author interviews and local literary news. Missed a performance? Most of our videos are now up on Facebook. Like Stories on Stage (Sacramento) to watch them.
- Stories on Stage won a 2010 Best of Sacramento Award from Sacramento Magazine. We were the editor’s pick for Best Reason to Listen Up.
- 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.
CALL FOR WRITERS & PERFORMERS
Stories on Stage schedules writers beginning in the Fall for the upcoming year. We will begin scheduling for 2013 in Fall 2012. We will post a call when we are ready to receive submissions (this avoids overly long response times). If you are a performer who would like to read for Stories on Stage, contact our Casting Director Victoria Goldblatt at optimum.body (at) yahoo (dot) com to schedule an audition.
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 29th – Lynn Freed & Laura Maylene Walter
July 27th – Debut Novelists Christian Kiefer & Melanie Thorne
August 31st – Amina Gautier & Bill Pieper
September 28th – A night of Speculative Fiction
October 26th – stories from Davis-based Blue Moon Literary & Art Review
November 30th – Valerie Fioravanti book launch celebration
