apt’s AWP 2012 reading
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| 03/01/12 | apt’s AWP 2012 reading in Chicago | Innertown Pub |
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Time: 7:30pm.
Age restrictions: All Ages.
Address: 1935 W. Thomas Street.
The second print issue of apt is due out at the end of the month, so we’re bringing writers from Boston (and borrowing writers in Chicago) to have a reading just in time for AWP!
So, please join us at 7:30pm on Thursday, March 1 at Chicago’s Innertown Pub when Shannon Derby, Gillian Devereux, Thomas Mundt, Thomas Nowak, Randolph Pfaff, Courtney Cullinan Robb, N. A’Yara Stein, and Russ Woods will share their words and affection with you. Your occasionally megalomaniacal host will be Carissa Halston. Also, as the promotional image states, there will be a trained animal exhibition, which means that Randolph will tame a lion (named Carissa) and that Carissa will likely do an impression of an angry monkey. For more information about the readers, see below: Shannon Derby received her MFA from Emerson College and her MPhil in Irish Writing from Trinity College. Her fiction has appeared in apt, STORYGLOSSIA, Anomalous Press, and The Molotov Cocktail. She currently lives in Boston where she is pursuing her PhD. Gillian Devereux is the author of They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights and the forthcoming chapbook, Focus on Grammar. She received her MFA in Poetry from Old Dominion University and currently teaches ESL classes in Cambridge, MA. Her poems have appeared in No Tell Motel, Open Letters, So and So, apt, H_NGM_N, FOURSQUARE, Gargoyle, 32 Poems, Wicked Alice, and other journals. She likes robots, monkeys, gin, film noir, and the library. Carissa Halston is the author of the novel, A Girl Named Charlie Lester, and the forthcoming novella, The Mere Weight of Words, due out in June from Aqueous Books. Her short fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in kill author, Wigleaf, and CONSEQUENCE. She currently lives in Boston where she edits a literary journal called apt and hosts a reading series called Literary Firsts. Thomas Mundt lives in Chicago. His new(ish) stories have turned up in places like Everyday Genius, The Northville Review, Bartleby Snopes, and Kugelmass, all less-than-meticulously collected for your convenience at www.dontdissthewizard.blogspot.com. He is currently completing his first story collection, You Have Until Noon to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. Tom Nowak lives and writes in Chicago where he is an MFA candidate at Columbia College. He received his BA with focuses in English and German from Augustana College. It was there he learned how to ballroom dance and shoot a bow. During his time in Chicago he hopes to learn how to breakdance and swing a sword properly. Randolph Pfaff is a writer, editor, and visual artist. He lives in Boston, where he edits for a magazine called apt and a small press called Aforementioned. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Metazen and Open Letters Monthly, among others. Courtney Cullinan Robb is a writer and Teaching Fellow at the M.F.A program in Creative Writing at Hollins University. Before Hollins, she worked in finance in New York City. Her work appears in One Journal and Shadowbox among others. She is the recipient of the Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Writing for work on her fiction novel. N. A’Yara Stein, born in Memphis in 1971, is a Romani-American poet and writer living on a chicory farm. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a grant recipient of the Michigan Art Council and the Arkansas Arts Council and was the former editor of the arts quarterly, Gypsy Blood Review. She’s published in America, The New Orleans Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Oxford American, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Crossroads: a Journal of Southern Culture, Great Midwestern Quarterly, and Poetry Motel, among others. Ms. Stein lives near Chicago with her sons. Russ Woods co-edits Red Lightbulbs and lives in Chicago. He has poetry forthcoming in apt, LIES/ISLE, Untoward and Pank. He is at http://solarflareshavebeenknowntocauseheartache.com/. He is currently working on a weird chapbook that will be out in 2012. 
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