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Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Episode 4 of the Teleportal series happens this Tuesday! Here’s the writeup from Monofonus Press:
As part of this month’s Fusebox Festival, Monofonus presents the fourth installment of Austin’s most multimedia reading series. If you love reading but hate readings, fear not: this is literature at its most laid-back. This month’s Teleportal features a live reading by local fiction writer Amelia Gray, an interactive performance by blackout poet Austin Kleon, and a teleportal reading by Jon Cotner and Alex Karpovsky from Cotner and Andy Fitch’s Ten Walks/Two Talks. As always, there will be a special musical guest and a pop-up shop with selections from Domy Books.
Amelia Gray’s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, and Caketrain, among others. She is the author of AM/PM, published by Featherproof Books, and Museum of the Weird, due August 2010 through Fiction Collective 2.
Austin Kleon is a writer, cartoonist, and web designer. He’s best known for his Newspaper Blackout Poems — poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker. His first book, Newspaper Blackout, was published by Harper Perennial this month.
Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch are the authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Cotner lives in New York City. Fitch is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program.
Teleportal 4
8pm, April 27,
Hotel San Jose
1316 S. Congress Ave
Austin, TX
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An Austin stop was an obvious must for the 11th stop on Opium100′s Monster Fundraising Tour, and to celebrate, co-sponsor the Writers’ League of Texas is helping pack the night with enough talent to intoxicate the Live Music Capital of the World’s collective consciousness. A trio of all-star judges is led by screenwriter/hilaritist/author of The Book of Harold: Owen Egerton, Sara Hickman (the Texas state musician for 2010-11), and the all-too-bashful, award-winning author of Woodsburner, John Pipkin.
Plus, a quartet of readers led by journalist/author/radio commentator/ordained minister Spike Gillespie (Dick Monologues), author and former ad agency slave Anna Mitchael (Just Don’t Call Me Ma’am), scribe Tyler Stoddard Smith and Les McGehee (author of Plays Well with Others).
Hosted by Opium’s Todd Zuniga and Writers’ League of Texas’ Sara Ortiz.
Where: Speakeasy, 412-D Congress Ave., Austin (map)
When: Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8:05 (sharp)
Cost: Free if you subscribe to Opium now! Or: $5 preorder; $8 at the door; $5 with a valid student ID.
This event is free for Literary Death Match subscribers!
We’ve updated our event calendar with some fun new shows. Check it out:
The Encyclopedia Show, Austin!
Thursday, April 15 at The Independent @ 501 Studios * 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Each month a topic is picked from a real live encyclopedia and a clutch of volunteering writers are given assignments on that entry. There are Def Poetry Jam vets, writing professors, slam poets, stand-up comics, fiction writers, and LOTS of feelings!
This month’s topic: The Visible Spectrum of Color!
Featuring Contributors:
Eirik Ott (HBO Def Poet, National Slam Champion): The Human Eye
Boone Graham (musician myspace.com/boonesong, theater teacher): Crayola
Natalie Groves (local loon): Indigo
Andrea Grimes (standup comedienne, contributor to heartlessdoll.com): Rainbow Brite
Dr. Nance Riffe (professor-at-large): Color Theory
Jesus Valles (actor, performance scholar): Prisms
Featuring:
Katelyn Wood as Wiki Lake
Kyle Schultz as Stepdad Ron
Mike Slefinger as Lord Professor Slefinger
Chris Hatcher as The Intern
Betsy McCann as Gypsy Magnolia
And your hosts, the Mikes and Ralph!
You HAVE to come! Only $6! Nothing in this world is $6. Except this.
Pre-show and drinks start at 7pm. Show starts promptly at 8:13pm.
