MEET THE WRITERS: Casey Childers
Casey Childers is one of the producers of Write Club SF, a damn fine lit show if there ever was one. Check him out tonight at GMF!
MEET THE WRITERS: Jesse Hett
Jesse Hett is a fantastic stand-up comic, as well as being a great dude. And great dudes make the world go ‘round. See him Sunday at GMF!
MEET THE WRITERS: Megan Cohen
Megan Cohen is an actress, playwright, and the co-host of Saturday Write Fever, one of the best times you can have on a second Saturday of the month. See her the first Sunday of this month at GMF!
MEET THE WRITERS: Sarah Griffin
Sarah Griffin is the author of Not Lost. Here, she describes the elemental plot conflict of woman versus cat. Real excited to have her at GMF this Sunday.
MEET THE WRITERS: Mike Spiegelman
Mike Spiegelman runs one of the best comedy showcases in Oakland Tuesdays at the Layover. Here he is reading at Litquake’s Comics on Comix. Check him out Sunday at GMF.
MEET THE WRITERS: Kate Willett
Kate Willett is a self-professed creep and one of the producers of The Mission Position at Lost Weekend Video. She’ll be reading this Sunday at GMF, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Give Me Fiction returns for its sixth installment and going by the pattern of Final Fantasies, this should be the best one yet. Some of the finest minds in comedy, literature, and theatre write pieces around a theme, which they are free to interpret as loosely or strictly as they wish. This month’s theme is INFLUENCE, and reading will be:
Megan Cohen
Jesse Hett
Sarah Griff
Casey Childers
Mike Spiegelman
Kate Willett
And as ever, your host and international tastemaker, Ivan Hernandez.
Gimme Fiction - POWER
Here’s the piece I read at Ivan Hernandez’s lovely short story showcase, Gimme Fiction. The theme was “POWER” (Ivan’s capitals, not mine).
Plum dipped the blade into the sacrificial altar. “Eksu dogma ituneh”, he and the other members of The Order chanted, be-robed and be-hooded. The Boy…
Give Me Fiction returns to its rightful place on the first Sunday of the month! Some of the finest minds in comedy, literature, and theatre write pieces around a theme, which they are free to interpret as loosely or strictly as they wish. This month’s theme is POWER, and reading will be:
David Cairns
Emily Epstein White
Molly Sanchez
Nate Waggoner
George Chen
Tara Marsden
And your host, the mighty Ivan Hernandez.
Give Me Fiction
Last year I did I wrote a short story for Ivan Hernandez‘s show, Give Me Fiction.
I can’t remember the last time I was asked to write a story, and the whole experience was challenging, but also pretty fun. You can check out the story I wrote below and you can also hear the whole show here.
Immortality with a Side of Bacon.
(With apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez)Part 1
I realized I was…
