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Roar Shack Presents: “Close to Home” at 826LA in Echo Park on April 10, 2016

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:

Dawna Kemper: Dawna Kemper’s stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, The Florida Review, The Idaho Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, Shenandoah, The Collagist, ZYZZYVA, New Delta Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Austin Review. Her stories have been Pushcart-nominated, listed as “Notable” in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (in 2009 and 2013), and finalists for the Bevel Summers Short-Short Story Prize. For two years, she served as a judge for the annual Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and occasionally serves as editorial assistant at the Santa Monica Review. She has completed a collection of stories, and is working on a novel.

Tanya Ward Goodman: Tanya Ward Goodman is the author of, “Leaving Tinkertown,” recipient of the Sarton Memoir Award, the 2015 New Mexico Press Women Zia Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best Book. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Los Angeles Times, Alligator Juniper Literary Journal, Perceptions: A Magazine for the Arts, OC Parents, Brain, Child and Literary Mama. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children and is currently working on a novel.

March Live Write winner Ryane Nicole Granados: Ryane Nicole Granados is a Los Angeles native and she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in various publications, including Gravel, Role Reboot, The Manifest-Station, Mutha Magazine, Specter Magazine, FORTH Magazine, and The Good Men Project. Ryane is best described as a wife, writer, teacher and mom who laughs loud and hard, sometimes in the most inappropriate of circumstances. As a result, she hopes her writing will inspire, challenge, amuse and motivate thinking that cultivates positive change.

Live Write

Wendy Fontaine: Wendy Fontaine is a writer and professor in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Passages North, Readers Digest, Huffington Post, Brain Child, Role Reboot, Literary Mama, Mutha Magazine, and elsewhere. Her research on the convergence of neuroscience and memoir was published in Assay literary journal. Last year, she won the Tiferet Prize for Creative Nonfiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Antioch University in LA and teaches journalism at Pepperdine University in Malibu. She recently finished a memoir called Leaves in the Fall.

Laura Warrell: A recent transplant to Los Angeles from Boston, Laura Warrell has work featured or forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Writer, Salon.com, Racialicious.com, Post Road Magazine, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix, as well as Broadsheet in Madrid, Spain and other international publications.  She was a contributing writer to Numero Cinq Magazine and an assistant fiction editor at Upstreet Magazine.  Laura graduated from the Creative Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and was a contributor in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2014.

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.

When & Where
826LA in Echo Park
1714 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Sunday, April 10
4:00 P.M to 5:30 P.M.

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