Oct 26, 2009
Seattle, WA – 10/26/09 – Inner Chapters – Birkensnake
By: readinglocalseattle Categories: Events
| Who | Birkensnake |
| When |
Monday, October 26, 2009
7:30pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
419 Fairview Ave. N.
Seattle, WA, USA 98109 In Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, tucked away in an old brick building, there lies a hidden treasure trove of used books. Don't be misled by what you can see from our front window--come in and discover what exists beyond the facade. Grab your favorite espresso drink or a nice cup of tea and enjoy browsing the Inner Chapter shelves while you forget about the fast pace of modern life. |
| Other Info | Tonight four contributors from the Pacific Northwest read at Inner Chapter Bookstore at October 26 at 7:30 p.m. Free. This issue is screen printed on velor paper and singed with a blowtorch. Tonight’s readers include Tina Connolly, Evelyn Hampton, Caren Gussoff, and Matt Briggs. Birkensnake is an irregularly-published journal that you can find the work online, in PDF, or as an inexpensive (4$) imperfectly-bound collection of fiction. It is produced in Rhode Island. It is hand bound, and features a hand-printed cover. In it’s first two issues it has published writers such as David Ohle, Joanna Howard, Danielle Dutton, Blake Butler, and Joyelle McWeeney. Issues are available online at http://birkensnake.com Tina Connolly is a writer and face painter in Portland OR, where she lives with a husband and a cat. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons and Highlights Magazine, and her poems in Asimov's. She has stories forthcoming in several anthologies, including Unplugged: Year's Best Online SF. Evelyn Hampton co-edits Dewclaw. Her website is www.lispservice.com. Caren Gussoff is the author of a couple of books published by Serpent's Tail, have an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and graduated Clarion West in 2008 as an Octavia E. Butler scholar. Her work is recent or forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Cabinet des Fees, and Birkensnake, and a short story placed second in a Fantasy Magazine micro-fiction contest. Gussoff is also a co-editor of Brain Harvest: an Almanac of Bad-Ass Speculative Fiction. Her website is www.spitkitten.com. Matt Briggs is the author of The Remains of River Names and three other collections of stories. His first novel, Shoot the Buffalo, will be re-released in November by the Publication Studio as a Jank Edition. A second novel, The Strong Man, will be released in January. Recent or forthcoming work has appeared in The Chicago Review, Opium Magazine, and The Goldenhandcuffs Review. Briggs writes for Reading Local: Seattle and keeps a blogs at: mattbriggs.wordpress.com |
