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Roar Shack Presents: “Daydreaming”

September 11, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Roar Shack is a collective of writers and artists, and we’re going to bring you voices. Some of us come from fiction, some from memoir, some from poetry, and from music and performance and just about anything that leaves its own blood on the page. We want to bring you what you may not be getting much of. Won’t you join us?

We dare you to miss this lineup:

Siel Ju: Siel Ju’s novel-in-stories, Cake Time, is the winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award and will be published in Spring 2017. Siel is also the author of two poetry chapbooks and the recipient of residencies from The Anderson Center and Vermont Studio Center. Her stories and poems appear in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), The Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, and other places. She edits Flash Flash Click, a weekly e-zine of flash prose.

Seth Fischer: Seth Fischer’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Best Sex Writing, PANK, Gargoyle, the California Prose Directory, and other publications, and he was the first Sunday editor at the The Rumpus, where his work was listed as notable in The Best American Essays. He’s working on a memoir about being a bisexual kid raised by four child psychologists at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and a novel involving goblins, grandmas, and accidental domestic terrorism. His cat is his cruelest editor—there is video evidence of Chewbie eating his manuscript—so if you don’t like what he is about to read, you know who to blame. 

August co- Live Write winners Dan Riordan: Daniel Riordan is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Drama. He is a professional actor, who has been supporting himself and his family in his chosen profession for thirty years. He has also written and produced for the screen; including his film The Pavillion, which he also co-starred in. He is a longtime resident of Venice, where he gets much of his literary inspiration.

…and Brian Sonia-Wallace: Brian took a crazy challenge in September, 2014: to pay his rent using only the money he made writing poetry. And it worked. Since then, this journey has led him to write poems for everyone from Google to children to celebrity weddings, and perform his work around the world. He published his first book, I Sold These Poems, Now I Want Them Back in 2016 with Yak Press. He is a 2016 Artist-in-Residence with the City of Los Angeles, and a 2015 Artist-in-Residence with the National Parks. He was a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award Nominee, He received the Amtrak residency for 2016, and continues to create work that connects people.

Rich Ferguson: Pushcart-nominated poet, and new father Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Bob Holman, and other esteemed poets and musicians. He has performed at the NYC Fringe Festival, the Bowery Poetry Club, and is a featured performer in the film What About Me? (featuring Michael Stipe, Michael Franti, Krishna Das, and others). He has been published in the LA TIMES, Sensitive Skin, and his spoken word / music videos have appeared in international film festivals. Ferguson is a poetry editor to The Nervous Breakdown. His poetry collection 8th & Agony is out on Punk Hostage Press. His debut novel, New Jersey Me, has been published by Rare Bird Books/Barnacle Books.

Toni Ann Johnson: Toni Ann Johnson’s short fiction, essays and articles have appeared in The LA Times, The Emerson Review, Soundings Review, Xavier Review and Hunger Mountain. Her novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a debut author. Screenplays include the feature film “Step Up 2: The Streets,” “Ruby Bridges,” for ABC and “Crown Heights” for Showtime Television. She’s won two Humanitas Prizes and The Christopher Award for her screenwriting. She an alum of the Prague Summer Program for Writers, the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop at Brown University and Antioch University Los Angeles, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing.

Live Write

Natashia Deon: Natashia Deón is the author of the critically acclaimed debut, GRACE (Counterpoint Press), which earned her a PEN Center USA Fellowship. A Los Angeles attorney, mother, and law professor, she also produces the popular L.A. reading series Dirty Laundry Lit.

 

Live Write! A thrilling feat of writerly improvisation! As you arrive, you get to vote on a prompt. The winning prompt will be revealed to four intrepid authors – two of us and two of you audience types, onstage for all to see! We’ll all write to that prompt while our musical guest plays – it’s going to be impossible not to listen, but no one said this was going to be easy. Then the Live Writers will each read their just-written words, and the audience gets to vote! The winner will develop the work into a finished piece to be read at the next show.

 

Details

Date:
September 11, 2016
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Organizer

Roar Shack

Venue

826LA Echo Park
1714 W. Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026 United States
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