Showing posts with label events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label events. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2012

Event: GENERAL IDEA 6: Etter, Fletcher, Hess, and Spallholz

Saturday, March 31st, 7pm
at
Brickbat Books:

GENERAL IDEA 6:
Etter, Fletcher, Hess, and Spallholz Read!



A retired shipbuilder, Mickey Hess is Associate Professor of English at Rider University, where he teaches arc welding, mig welding, and creative nonfiction. In the early months of 2012, he has released two books: The Nostalgia Echo (a novel) and The Novelist & the Rapper (stories). He is hard at work on a biography of the rap star Ol' Dirty Bastard.



Sarah Rose Etter's chapbook, Tongue Party, was selected as the winner of the 2010 Caketrain Chapbook Contest by Deb Olin Unferth. Her work has appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Collagist and more. She lives in Philadelphia where she co-curates the Tire Fire Reading series.



Julianna Spallholz's short (and very short) fiction has appeared in Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, Sleepingfish, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. Julianna has performed and collaborated her work with musicians, visual artists, a DJ, and a chef. For the moment, she lives in upstate New York. Her book, The State of Kansas, is available from GenPop Books. Please visit her website at http://www.juliannaspallholz



Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [ml press 2010] and the poetry chapbooks I AIN'T ASKED ANY PARDON FOR ANYTHING I DONE [the greying ghost 2011] and I CANNOT PRETEND TO BE A GHOST TODAY [paper pusher 2012]. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Event: Madonna & Me



Sunday, March 25th,6 pm
at
Brickbat Books:

Madonna & Me,
A Reading



Come hear old Brickbat buddy Kristin McGonigle & pals get all reflective about the Queen of Pop!



Editor Laura Barcella hosts five readings from the new anthology, Madonna & Me. Readers include Kristin McGonigle, Shawna Kenney, Kelly Keenan Trumpbour, Dana Rossi, and Maria Raha.

"For nearly 30 years, Madonna has been at the center of the media spotlight. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, launched her own record label, headlined an Oscar-award-winning film, authored bestselling books for both adults and children, inspired global street-fashion trends, and instigated international debates over a range of feminist issues from sexual fetish to adoption ethics. Masterfully harnessing her talent and power to navigate her ascent to stardom, she has become the very definition of iconic.
She has also been a constant companion. In "Madonna and Me, " more than forty women write about Madonna's influence on their lives. No subject goes unexplored--from sex and money to fashion and identity, the stories are just as brazen, bold, and balls-to-the-wall as Madonna. They explore the evolution of her chameleonlike personas--material girl and "boy-toy" tartlet, kooky Kabbalist and savvy businesswoman, siren and mother--and her impact on culture as a groundbreaking feminist.
Of course, not all women worship at her altar, and likewise the essays in "Madonna and Me" are brutally honest, funny, engaging, and real. They delve into the hearts, souls, memories, and moments of contemporary women, celebrating the ways in which Madonna has inspired us and challenged us, pushing us to be bolder, edgier, braver versions of ourselves."

Thursday, February 9, 2012

EVENT: ixnay press Reading



Saturday, February 11th at 7 pm
at
Brickbat Books

ixnay press authors
Jamie Townsend & Laura Spagnoli



Announcing a reading to celebrate the publication of two chapbooks from ixnay press: Jamie Townsend’s THE DOME & Laura Spagnoli’s My Dazzledent Days. Your hosts will be ixnay co-editors Chris McCreary & Jenn McCreary.





Jamie Townsend is the co-founder of con/crescent, a chapbook publisher & annual magazine focused on discursive essay & creative non-fiction. In addition to THE DOME, he is author of the chapbooks STRAP/HALO (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs; 2011) and Matryoshka (LRL Textile Editions; 2011). His poetry and critical work has appeared in various places, most recently in Wheelhouse, Volt, Jacket2, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Eccolinguistics & TRY.






Laura Spagnoli’s poems have appeared in various publications, including Jupiter 88, ONandOnScreen, and The Apiary, and her story “A Cut Above” was published in the collection Philadelphia Noir. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches French at Temple University.





Founded in 1998, ixnay press is a Philadelphia-based publisher of new and experimental writing. Publishing projects have included ixnay, a twice-yearly journal, and the ixnay reader, a periodic mini-anthology of sorts, as well as a chapbook series and poppycock, an occasional newsletter. Check out ixnay’s complete archives at www.ixnaypress.com or email ixnaypress@gmail.com for additional information.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Event: Tonight: The National Writing Project


Brickbat will be closing at 6PM today to prepare for Brickbat Jr's appearance on The National Writing Project's radio program on the value of digital writing, tonight at 7PM.
Break a leg kid!


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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year!

Brickbat will close today, Saturday, at 6pm.

We will re-open on Tues, Jan. 3rd, at 11am.

Happy New Year!