Joshua Mohr at the Pen on Fire Speaker Series & Salon
If you didn’t make the event with Josh last week, or if you did and you want to relive it, check out Chelsey Drysdale’s write up on her blog, right here.
May
16
7 p.m.
An Evening with Fiction Writers
In conversation with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Join us on May 16 when David Francis and other fiction writers (TBA) visit the Pen on Fire Speaker Series to discuss the art, craft, and business of writing.
David Francis, based in Los Angeles, spends part of each year back on his family’s farm in Australia. He is the author of The Great Inland Sea, published to acclaim in seven countries, and Stray Dog Winter, Book of the Year in The Advocate, winner of the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Prize for Literature and a LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist. He has taught creative writing at University of California, Los Angeles, Occidental College and in the Masters of Professional Writing program at University of Southern California. His short fiction and articles have appeared in publications including Harvard Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Southern California Review, Best Australian Stories, Australian Love Stories, Los Angeles Times and The Rattling Wall. Film rights to his novels have been sold in France and the United States. He is Vice President of PEN Center USA. His new novel is Wedding Bush Road and will be the focus of our talk.
Buy tickets for the May 16 event.
Cost: $20, which includes nibbles & sips.
Please note: We begin at 7pm sharp.
Latecomers risk losing their seats and may enjoy standing-room only.
No refunds.
Write up of speaker series event with Elizabeth Marro and T. Jefferson Parker
In case you missed it, writer Chelsey Drysdale did a detailed write-up. Right here.
Recap of speaker series/salon with Bret Anthony Johnston, Aline Ohanesian, and Lisa Glatt
Essayist and editor Chelsey Drysdale wrote this incredibly detailed recap of last Tuesday night’s event. If you were there and didn’t take notes, or if you weren’t there but wish you had been, check out her blog. Right here. Thank you, Chelsey!
Author T. Jefferson Parker, two-time guest of the
Pen on Fire Writers Salon:
"What a terrific evening with you at the gallery. You've got some really fine readers/writers/fans. It was an enjoyable night for me. I felt much appreciated and not a little spoiled!"
Past guests include authors, literary agents, and editors: Bret Anthony Johnston, Chris Bohjalian, Lisa See, Dani Shapiro, Seth Greenland, Diana Wagman, Jillian Lauren, Dana Johnson, Martin J. Smith, Susan Straight, Tatjana Soli, Jess Walter, Pam Houston, Suzanne Redfearn, Jane Porter, Anita Hughes, Kaira Rouda, Betsy Amster, Stacy Berlein, Eric Puchner, Claire Bidwell Smith, James Brown, Dinah Lenney, T. Jefferson Parker, Merrill Markoe, Karen Karbo, Heidi Durrow, Danzy Senna, Taylor Martindale, Sally van Haitsma, Elise Capron, Katie Arnoldi, Marisa Matarrazo, Lisa Fugard, Andrew Winer, Dan Smetanka, Dennis Palumbo, Daniel Pyne, Aimee Bender, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Jill Marr, Stacy Chilton Weiss, Gary Phillips, Mary Castillo, Martin J. Smith, Patricia McFall, Ron Carlson, Tod Goldberg, Victoria Patterson, Carolyn See, Norman Ollestad, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Kelly Sonnack, Debra Ollivier, Aline Ohanesian.
Comments from Pen On Fire Writers Salon Attendees
"Thanks for Tuesday evening with Heidi Durrow and Danzy Senna. I hesitated when I paid my $20, as I was not sure this was the program for me. When I arrived to realize I was the only man, I was convinced of it. The only thing I remembered was that by far the majority of writers and readers are women. But I was committed, and sitting by the wall; leaving wasn't an option. But then the authors started talking and reading. Wow! It was then that I knew why I came. I listened to every word. And each word was valuable.
—Frederick R. Andresen
www.fandresen.com