October 12th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
We have a last-minute change for Monday’s reading: Kim Triedman will be stepping in for Susan Tepper.
For those of you who wanted to hear Susan read, worry not! I’ve rescheduled her for July 2014.
Check the Facebook event page for info about Kim and be sure to be there on Monday to hear her reading!
October 12th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Can’t wait to see you on Monday night, Boston!
Meet me at Middlesex Lounge at 7pm for Susan Tepper, Anne Champion, Michelle Seaton, and Molly Howes!
August 30th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Anne Champion is an uncrackable code.
Anne Champion is the author of Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, The Pinch, Pank Magazine, The Comstock Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Poetry Quarterly, Cider Press Review, The Aurorean, and elsewhere. She was a recipient of the Academy of American Poet’s Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a St. Botolph Emerging Writer’s Grant nominee, and a Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop participant. She holds degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University and received her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College. She currently teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, Wheelock College, and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, MA.
Anne is the poet for the October 14 reading.
August 30th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Molly Howes is a tidy fortune.
Molly Howes’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Bellingham Review, Tampa Review, and Marco Polo Arts Magazine. She will be a MacDowell Fellow this fall, where she will continue working on her childhood memoir, currently titled The Temporary Orphan: Invisible Wounds and Invisible Grace. She is an active and grateful member of the Grub Street writing community.
Molly is the confessional writer for the October 14 reading.
August 30th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Michelle Seaton is a welcome respite.
Michelle Seaton is a journalist and author whose fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, Harvard Review and Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. She is a longtime contributor to Robb Report and NPR’s “Only a Game” and the co-author of The Way of Boys. She teaches creative nonfiction at Grub Street and writing for the media at Boston University.
Michelle is the essayist for the October 14 reading.
August 30th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Susan Tepper is the soul of wit.
Susan Tepper is the author of four books of fiction and a chapbook of poetry. Her latest is a novel-in-stories called The Merrill Diaries (Pure Slush Books, July 2013) involving a young woman’s journey spanning nine years, two continents, two husbands, a pair of spies, one psychic, hit men, hookers, the music biz and much, much more.
Susan is the fiction fiction writer for the October 14 reading.
August 29th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
How fast the year flies.
It’s already the final Literary Firsts for 2013.
So please join us at Middlesex Lounge on Monday, October 14 at 7pm when Anne Champion, Molly Howes, Michelle Seaton, and Susan Tepper will be reading! I can’t wait to see you there!
July 17th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
I love making puns about the summer Literary Firsts reading: it’s sultry, steamy, scorching–hot. On Monday night, we were actually very warm as the air conditioner at Middlesex Lounge had broken. But the Middlesex crew took care of us, as always. I cannot sing praises high enough for the staff and management at our venue. They’re the best.
Speaking of the best, the readers were so very on. I’m so grateful to them for bringing such stellar work and for being gracious despite the swelter! If you were there, you can confirm that room was alive, but just in case you weren’t there, photos are below and links to the videos follow thereafter. (Many thanks to Randolph Pfaff for taking the photos and for letting me hijack your YouTube account while I get mine straightened out.)
JoeAnn Hart reads flash fiction.
Daniel Evans Pritchard reads poetry.
Daniel Nester reads a few essays.
Tony McMillen reads his confessional tale.
Click each name to watch JoeAnn’s, Daniel Evans Pritchard’s, Daniel Nester’s, and Tony’s readings.
Can’t wait to see you in October, Boston!
July 15th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
Bostonians, Cantabrigians, Somervillains, one and all:
Tonight, JoeAnn Hart will read, Daniel Nester will read, Daniel Evans Pritchard will read, and Tony McMillen will also (bravely) read.
Do not miss this.
Middlesex Lounge. 7pm. Me. You. Them.
Be there.
June 7th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink
I am so excited about July’s LF reading—JoeAnn Hart as our fiction writer, Daniel Nester as our essayist, Daniel Evans Pritchard as our poet, and Tony McMillen as our confessional writer! See the posts below for more information about each reader.
And see the promotional image above for the date and time (image courtesy of your host, Carissa, and her partner in crime, Randolph).
See you on July 15!