Nor’easter Open: Featuring Samantha Barrow and Maleka Fruean.
When: Friday, Sept 14th, 7:00-9:00 PMWhere: Big Blue Marble Bookstore551 Carpenter LanePhiladelphia, PA 19119-3402(215) 844-1870
Join us for our 8th Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that takes place at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma Jones and Quincy ScottJones. Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic. For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.
Samantha Barrow is a poet, performer, writer and educator with an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Distinguished Graduate Research Scholar Fellowship in 2011. Shefacilitates creative resilience & writing workshops with survivors of sexual assault, and teaches Narrative Medicine at the City College of New York. She’s been known to ride her motorcycle around the countrysharing her poems in all kinds of venues; big, small, loud, silent, fabulous and awkward. She lives in New York City. For more about Ms. Barrow please go to www.SamanthaBarrow.com
Maleka Fruean was born in Western Samoa, raised in southern New Jersey, and started sassing around in Philadelphia. She creates poems and paints with her three children, and has featured her poetry and prose in venues like the Rotunda, the Painted Bride, and various communal houses and tearooms throughout Philadelphia. She recently had her first pieces of flash fiction published.
Featuring: J. Galyn Hoffler, Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, and Nathan Long.
"Flash fiction is fiction with its teeth bared and its claws extended, lithe and muscular with no extra fat. It pounces inthe first paragraph, and if those claws aren’t embedded in the reader by the start of the second, the story began a paragraph too soon. There is no margin for error. Every word must be essential, and if it isn’t essential, it must be eliminated." -Kathy Kachelrides
When: Saturday, September 22, 2012. 7:00pm.
Where: The Imperfect Gallery- a new art gallery in the Germantown community, 5601 Greene Street. Philly, PA 19144
The "iMPeRFeCT Gallery is a not-for-profit alternative art space dedicated to the voice of the artist. We are an international, community based exhibition space in Germantown,Philadelphia, where we'll celebrate the work that comes out of passion. https://www.facebook.com/
A Philadelphia native, J. Galyn Hoffler loves to observe and write about the human condition. She wrote human interest features and community news for a local newspaper for over three years before becoming an English teacher. She writes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry.
Nathan Long's stories and essays have appeared in over fifty journals, including Glimmer Train, Tin House, The Sun, and Crab Orchard Review. His work has won a Virginia Arts Grant, a Truman Capote Trust Scholarship, and a Pushcart nomination and his stories have been finalists nine times for the Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award. He lives in Germantown and teaches at Richard Stockton College.
Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela's writing has earned her recognition and support from The Leeway Foundation and Hedgebrook, among others. She is the co-founder of Thread Makes Blanket press which is currently working on the completion of an anthology of writing from the VONA writing workshops. As she continues to work on her first novel, flash fiction has become a welcome escape into other stories. Marissa is a professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Hosted by Maleka Fruean: Germantown writer, mother, and sassy artist.
A Flash in the Pan: A Selection of Flash Fiction Readings from some of Philly's Finest Fiction Writers
Featuring: J. Galyn Hoffler, Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, and Nathan Long.
"Flash fiction is fiction with its teeth bared and its claws extended, lithe and muscular with no extra fat. It pounces inthe first paragraph, and if those claws aren’t embedded in the reader by the start of the second, the story began a paragraph too soon. There is no margin for error. Every word must be essential, and if it isn’t essential, it must be eliminated." -Kathy Kachelrides
When: Saturday, September 22, 2012. 7:00pm.Where: The Imperfect Gallery- a new art gallery in the Germantown community, 5601 Greene Street. Philly, PA 19144
The "iMPeRFeCT Gallery is a not-for-profit alternative art space dedicated to the voice of the artist. We are an international, community based exhibition space in Germantown,Philadelphia, where we'll celebrate the work that comes out of passion. https://www.facebook.com/
A Philadelphia native, J. Galyn Hoffler loves to observe and write about the human condition. She wrote human interest features and community news for a local newspaper for over three years before becoming an English teacher. She writes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry.
Nathan Long's stories and essays have appeared in over fifty journals, including Glimmer Train, Tin House, The Sun, and Crab Orchard Review. His work has won a Virginia Arts Grant, a Truman Capote Trust Scholarship, and a Pushcart nomination and his stories have been finalists nine times for the Glimmer Train Very Short Story Award. He lives in Germantown and teaches at Richard Stockton College.
Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela's writing has earned her recognition and support from The Leeway Foundation and Hedgebrook, among others. She is the co-founder of Thread Makes Blanket press which is currently working on the completion of an anthology of writing from the VONA writing workshops. As she continues to work on her first novel, flash fiction has become a welcome escape into other stories. Marissa is a professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Hosted by Maleka Fruean: Germantown writer, mother, and sassy artist.
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