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Edge 29: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
Melissa Buckheit's BioA note from the curator: I have often wanted to listen to authors who are in the same place in their career as myself--emerging, published in journals, with a chapbook and/or a first full-length book, still growing but full of passion, new ideas, and an edge. But there is often infrequent opportunity for this; in fact, I have often felt disappointed in the lack, that such an open community might often be circumscribed in its literary programming. Additionally, featuring emerging writers engages other young as well as established writers, to support, frequent and attend Casa Libre and other writing events. This cycle creates the foundation for a writing community which self-generates, remains true, open, and allows many voices the opportunity for visibility and being heard. I want Tucson to be an artistic community which includes and features many voices and peoples. Literature is the province of communication, but also reflectivity, the reflection and representation of all our narratives and of new narratives and ideas, voices which are challenging and also challenge us.
Marianne Dissard, Kristi Maxwell,
& Lucy Simpson
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5Come to Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a series of local and national writers and cross-genre artists, emphasizing diversity of narrative, identity and literary source. Its purpose is to create community, visibility and voice for emerging and younger writers. Broadsheets of the authors' work will accompany each reading. Books and journals will be available for purchase and signing by the authors. Refreshments will be available after the reading.
Readers:
French-born, Tucson-based chanteuse Marianne Dissard, has toured extensively the world over with her first album, the Joey Burns-produced "L'Entredeux". As a lyricist, Marianne has written for Naïm Amor, Amor Belhom Duo, Howe Gelb, Françoiz Breut. Her texts have appeared in Spork and some other literary magazines. Marianne recently released her intermediary album, "Paris One Takes" (8/10 Blurt, 4/5 Venus), as a free download. Her second studio album, "L'Abandon", will be released in January 2011 with its companion DVD, a remake of Andy Warhol's western escapade, "Lonesome Cowboys".
Kristi Maxwell happily relocated to Tucson in August, after completing a PhD in English & Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she also received a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009), Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008), and the chapbook Elsewhere & Wise. Ahsahta will publish her next book, Re-, in 2012. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s creative writing program, she teaches at Pima Community College and will also teach a class at the Poetry Center in the spring.
Lucy Simpson was born and raised in East Yorkshire, England. She holds a B.A. in French from the College of Charleston and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arizona. Among other jobs, she has worked as a stable girl in a horse racing yard, a circulation assistant for a publisher of computer programming journals and an editorial assistant at a New York newspaper. Her short stories have been nominated for an AWP Award and named as finalists in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open as well as its Short Story for New Writers contest. She teaches writing at Pima Community College and is at work on her first novel, The Somewhere-Something Animal.
Next Edge Reading will be held on January 19.
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