EVENTS
When: August 26, 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Where: Boheme, 301 Fairview Street
Come join editors and contributors of NANO Fiction at Boheme for a night of readings and drinks! Readings will be held at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30, so if you’re planning to pop on over to the local Poison Pen reading that night, you can still get in three readings and many drinks. After all, is there any such thing as too much literature and alcohol (don’t ask John Berryman)? We’ll also be holding a couple raffles for free subscriptions.
Sponsored by Spacetaker and Boheme, Cultured Cocktails is a weekly event to help build the community of arts organizations in Houston. A portion of Boheme’s proceeds from 5-10pm will be generously donated to NANO Fiction.
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Kaboom Books and the Editors of NANO Fiction are delighted to bring back a third season of the NANO Reading series. This season’s lineup features eight readers from the Houston and Austin areas.
The NANO Reading Series is held at kaboom Books at the intersection of Houston Ave. and Bayland on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. As always, there will be commemorative chapbooks to celebrate the reading and refreshments will be served.
Fall 2010 DATES & READERS
September 14th, 2010
Casey Fleming and Sophie Rosenblum
Casey Fleming is a native Texan, but has lived in 13 cities and 6 countries. She holds a BA from Smith College, an MA from American University, and and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Her essays and short stories appear or are forthcoming in various literary journals and anthologies. This year she was a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award in Short Fiction. She teaches English at Kinkaid High School, and is the co-founder and organizer of the Poison Pen Reading Series.
Sophie Rosenblum was the 2008 – 2009 Rice University Parks Fellow. She received her MFA from the University of Houston in 2008. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saint Ann’s Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Dossier Journal, Avery Anthology and Gulf Coast.
October 12th, 2010
Brandon Lamson and Hannah Gamble
Brandon Lamson received his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He has taught writing at various schools and universities, including an alternative school for inmates located on Riker’s Island. His chapbook, Houston Gothic, co-authored with Chris Munde, was published in 2007, and his poems have appeared in Brilliant Corners, Pebble Lake Review, and Hunger Magazine.
Hannah Gamble graduated in May from the University of Houston. She is spending this year teaching Creative Writing at Rice University where she is the 2010/ 2011 Parks Fellow. She is the winner of the Charles Simic Poetry Prize, and the recipient of a summer writing fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. You can find her poems in Ecotone, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other places.
November 9th, 2010
Carrie Oeding and Cecily Sailer
Carrie Oeding’s first book of poems, Our List of Solutions, was selected by David Dodd Lee as the winner of the 2010 Lester M. Wolfson Poetry Award and will be published in 2011 by Indiana University Press’s new poetry series 42 Miles Press. Her work has appeared in the Best New Poets, 2005 anthology, DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, 32 Poems, Mid-American Review, Third Coast, Greensboro Review, storySouth, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Brenda Hillman selected her poems for second place in The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 2009 Juried Reading Award. She earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University. She then held a post-doctoral Fellowship from Ohio University where she received her Ph.D. and was awarded the Claude Kantner Fellowship. Carrie currently teaches as a Houston Writing Fellow.
December 14th, 2010
Ryan Dilbert and Timothy Willis Sanders
Timothy Willis Sanders (b.1980) is a writer living in Austin, TX. His work has appeared in NANO Fiction, Japanese Baseball, and elsewhere. He is the author of Orange Juice, a collection of short stories forthcoming on Awesome Machine Press. He is currently an editorial assistant at American Short Fiction.
Ryan Dilbert is a novice tattoo artist, an amateur vegan chef and a terrible salsa dancer. His novel Time Crumbling like a Wet Cracker (No Record Press) is forthcoming in Spring 2011. His work can be seen in FRiGG, decomP, Pear Noir, Titular, and Best of the Web 2009. He likes your new haircut.
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The NANO Readings Series is made possible by Kaboom Books. If you are in the Houston area, please stop by one of their two locations conveniently located in the downtown and Heights neighborhoods.
A reading by
Kevin Sampsell & B. Frayn Masters
with Ryan Call & Kirby Johnson
July 8, 2010
7:00pm
Kaboom Books
3115 Houston Avenue
They Came from the Northwest! Author of A Common Pornography, Kevin Sampsell and writer B. Frayn Masters embark on the ultimate southern road trip, stopping in Houston for a reading at the Houston Avenue location of Kaboom Books on July 8th at 7:00.
Co-sponsored by local literary journal, NANO Fiction and Kaboom Books, the reading will also feature local writers Ryan Call and Kirby Johnson.
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Kevin Sampsell is the author of the memoir, A Common Pornography, and the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books. His fiction and essays have appeared in Nerve, Smith Magazine, Quick Fiction, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works at the legendary Powell’s City of Books.
B. Frayn Masters has been published in Pindeldyboz, Spork, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. She has also written articles under a different name for “adult magazines.” She is the co-host of Back Fence PDX, a popular storytelling series in Portland, Oregon.
Ryan Call’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Hobart, Caketrain, NANO Fiction, LIT, New York Tyrant, The Lifted Brow, and elsewhere. He contributes to HTMLGIANT and is the associate editor of NOÖ Journal.
Kirby Johnson is the founding editor of NANO Fiction. She is the co-organizer of the Houston Indie Book Festival and a monthly reading series at Kaboom Books.
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When: Jun 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Spacetaker – 2101 Winter Street B11, Houston, TX, 77007
Cost: Free
Join NANO Fiction, Spacetaker, and Sketchy Neighbors for a night of Poetry and Art On Demand! Poets and artists will take the stage to write and draw according to your own suggestions!
Never before seen in Houston, this new style of performance pits artists’ and writers’ wits against your suggestions – not to mention a strict time limit. Featuring poets Andrew Kozma, Glenn Shaheen, Hannah Gamble and Becca Wadlinger.
We’re accepting your suggestions NOW! Email us your 5-word suggestion for a sketch/poem!
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.
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Through a collaboration with The Menil Collection, NANO Fiction and Gulf Coast are proud to host this year’s Houston Indie Book Festival, April 3 at Menil Park (view map).
Now in its third official year, the Houston Indie Book Festival remains the only event of its kind in the Houston and Austin areas, featuring a variety of nationally-distributed literary journals and small-press books alongside local booksellers, book and magazine publishers, small presses, literary organizations, and writers. Gift certificates and other items will be raffled off throughout the day, and some of Houston’s best and best-known writers will read from their work on the hour every hour.
For more information on the festival, please visit http://indiebookfest.org.
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