Archives

JOIN US IN FLORIDA FOR THE 2008 ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL!

Thanks to our favorite paper people for donating their groovy products to the Paper Dolls Event:

On Saturday, February 16, 2008, from noon to 3:00 PM at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Audience members can compete in an on-the-spot "flash essay" contest, and the winning mini-essays will be showcased between the afternoon's featured readers. And there are prizes to boot! To participate, be there at noon SHARP!

Featured readers will include:

Susan Henderson of LitPark.com, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and author of the forthcoming novel "Rise" (St. Martins Press);

Heather Maidat, Los Angeles-based screenwriter and essayist, and creator of the popular "New Yorker in L.A." blog ;

Kim Brittingham, essayist, blogger for The Memoirists Collective and author of the forthcoming memoir "Parking Backwards" who will read her essay "Fat is Contagious" detailing her "act of performance art, of sorts" that had fat activists around the globe talking throughout 2007;

New York-based writer Carol Clouse, best known for her writings about her adventures in London, which are the basis for her forthcoming as-yet untitled memoir;

Iranian-born Shoaleh Teymour, a belly dance instructor who came to the United States as a girl in the 1970s, will be reading from an autobiographical work in progress.

Admission to PAPER DOLLS is $10. The Bowery Poetry Club has a cash bar, tasty soups and sandwiches, mind-blowing coffee and teas and more. Those under 21 will be admitted, but no boozin' for you youngsters -- sorry!

See you there!