Thursday, January 8th – 8:00 pm
Novellas-in-Flash: A Reading
Pokrass / Teel / Bower

A reading by contributors to the new anthology, My Very End of the Universe: a celebration and study of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash, a novella built of standalone flash stories. The novellas in this collection—Betty Superman by Tiff Holland, Here, Where We Live by Meg Pokrass, Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel, Bell and Bargain by…

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Sunday, April 13th — 2:00 pm
PEN Oakland Writers

A reading by six writers, all officers or Board members of PEN Oakland:  Floyd Salas, Claire Ortalda, Sharon Doubiago, Kirk Lumpkin, Judith Cody and John Curl. About PEN Oakland: PEN Oakland (the “blue collar PEN”) was founded in 1989 to promote emerging multi-cultural literature and to educate about the nature of that work.  PEN Oakland…

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Sunday, September 8th – 2 pm:
Italian-American writers
read their work

Six writers converge from various points on the West Coast and New York City for an afternoon of readings hosted by Laura Ruberto, co-chair of the Berkeley City College Department of Arts and Culture. On hand for the afternoon will be Giovanna Capone (Oakland); Jennifer Lagier Fellguth (Santa Cruz); Paul Fericano (Santa Barbara); George Guida (New York City) ;…

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Saturday, January 26th:
Writers Lucille Lang Day & Herbert Gold

7 p.m. – Two accomplished writers take entirely different ends of the spectrum as their starting point in memoirs of humor, insight and no small measure of narrative grace. Lucille Lang Day’s Married at Fourteen tells the tale of her young life and its trajectory, while Herbert Gold’s Not Dead Yet takes up the other…

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