Flash Fiction Spectacular! Told in a Flash: Sudden & Micro Fiction
Hold on to your seats and join us for an exciting evening of flash, micro, sudden, and short-short fiction!
Veteran flash fictionist and MI member Lizette Wanzer chairs a panel of local flash fiction authors including Meg Pokrass, Jenny Bitner, Sarah Karlinsky, and MI member Paula Hendricks.
Winner of San Francisco’s 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 Annual Soulmaking Literary Awards, and a 2011 Fulbright Finalist in Literature, Lizette Wanzer’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals. She has also received writing residencies at the Blue Mountain Center (NY) and Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts (NE) and in 2012, a Creative Capacity grant. She has an essay forthcoming in the book The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays due out in May 2012.
Paula Hendricks, author of September in Corrales and co-author of two books on sustainable building, loves books, b/w photography, book design and managing her building in the Tenderloin Heights. www.paulahendricks.com
Meg Pokrass is the author of , a collection of flash fiction from Press 53. Her work has appeared in over two hundred literary journals. She edits BLIPMAGAZINE (formerly MIssisspippi Review) and lives near the ocean in San Francisco with seven animals.
Sarah Karlinsky has been writing flash fiction for many years in the privacy of her own home. By day she is the deputy director of an urban planning public policy think tank where she writes and speaks frequently on urban planning topics. While she loves stories about cities and cities with great stories, much of her fiction is set in the lonely streetcar suburbs of her youth, where the joys of city life remained just out of reach.
Jenny Bitner’s fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, The Sun, Fence and PANK. Her story “The Pamphleteer” was selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and incorporated into an opera by The Paul Bailey Ensemble. Her nonfiction has appeared in Utne Reader, To-Do List, The San Francisco Bay Guardian and Men’s Health. Pine Press published her poetry chapbook Mother. She has finished a novel, Here Is a Game We Can Play. Her work in Broadside Attractions, a collaborative project of artists and writers on the theme of the broadside, is on view in April at Intersection for the Arts. She is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto, where she teaches flash fiction. You can read links to her work at http://jennyart.com/.
Contact: Taryn Edwards - tedwards@milibrary.org / (415) 393 - 0103
Location: Mechanics' Institute