Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
Kinetic: call for submissions
[ August 11, 2010 2:00 pm to September 11, 2010 11:30 pm. ] This October Visual Arts Tour, RiverSpeak needs your help creating energy–kinetic energy–to move forward in Spokane. As a jump-start for our re-designed website (still in the oven), our October 1st and 2nd display “Kinetic” will feature art based around the theme of kinetic energy or motion–whatever that invokes for you. A Kinetic zine will be available ...
Olive It Cafe Performance V this Friday!
[ May 21, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Get ready for Olive It Cafe’s fifth reading (3402 N. Crestline). Join a group of writers and musicians for an evening of camaraderie. Meet new friends. Have dinner. Listen to poetry, stories, music. Laugh. Contemplate. Sign up to perform. It’s that simple! All are welcome! This is a monthly event organized by Shanti Perez, hosted by ...
Local Book Review: The Truth Lenders by Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen
2510: After the wars, science progressed to the point where other species live and work among the reduced human population. A pharmaceutical news conglomerate called News Now! Corporation controls much of this post-progress society, in which anti-establishment, anti-corporate critics are regularly persecuted and atomically rearranged into more useful items — say, vegetables or water for ...
May Creative Challenge
Some of you have heard of Steal My Story, the game where you write 1000 words of fiction, which is then stolen by someone else to finish the next month; likewise, you receive someone else’s story to finish the next month. Sounds easy, right? It is–that’s why we made it May’s Creative Challenge. To participate, write ...
Olive It Cafe Reading this Friday
[ April 16, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join us at the Olive It Cafe (3402 N Crestline) this Friday for the 4th Olive It Cafe Reading–a gathering of literary writers from all walks of Spokane life. Organized by Shanti Perez, this reading will be emceed by the wonderful Taylor Weech, join us for an evening of literature and music performances by Chris Dreyer, ...
RiverSpeak Hosts Community Reading
[ April 18, 2010; 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. ] This Sunday during the Get Lit! Festival, RiverSpeak will be hosting the Come One Come All Community Reading. All ages are welcome to 10 minutes in the literary spotlight to read their own original poetry, slam poetry, fiction or non-fiction.The reading will take place at the Community Building (35 W. Main). Community-Minded Television will be ...
New Opportunities for Spokane Writers
For those literary Spokanites, this may seem like your month, but it is, in fact, just the beginning of a wide-range of opportunities. Get Lit! begins April 14th, which (unless you’ve been living under a rock) you’ll recognize as Spokane’s biggest literary festival. This year the list of writers is unbelievable, so get your tickets now. Next, ...
Get Lit! Youth Events
Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! Festival – a weeklong celebration of reading and writing of all ages – presents a myriad of youth events and opportunities for teachers April 14-21, including readings, workshops, contests, poetry slams and more. This year, the Get Lit! Festival has designated a portion of Saturday, April 17, as “Family Focus Day,” ...
Steal My Story
Hello Spokane Writers! We’re putting a bit of a change on Steel My Story for this month. Instead of 1000 words we’ll be taking it down to 250 words for entries in the month of June. Join RiverSpeak’s “Steal My Story,” a fiction writing chain where participants steal other people’s stories and make them uniquely ...
Literary Reading/Music at Olive It Cafe
[ March 19, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The third performance at Olive It Cafe organized by Shanti Perez, hosted by Olive It Cafe, will include performances by writer/musicians Jill Malone and Melissa Opel, Mary Rae Bass and Tim Moore, writers Naaman Cordova, John Robertson, Marilee Hudon, Sara Habein, Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen, Mary Weaver, Chris Dreyer, Erika Prins, Brooke ...
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