Stories & Beer | Saturday March 2nd | 5:30ish p.m. | Mike & Molly’s | FREE
It doesn’t really feel like it, but we had our first Stories & Beer in March of 2010. So what has three years of doing this taught us? Well, probably not as much as it should have, but at the very least, we’ve learned that C-U is actually pretty damn good at supporting the literary arts. You know, so long as there’s booze at the ready. So, thanks for that, folks. For real. It means a lot.
And what better way to celebrate than to have another Stories & Beer? This time we will be at Mike & Molly’s, and this time, our lineup will be as rad as ever. Especially given that S&B founder Aaron Burch will be swinging on down from Ann Arbor to headline this badboy — a fact that we’re seriously stoked about.
Also, we have The Facebooks now, so feel free to “click” on our “link” and “like” our “page” or even “commit” to “attending” our “reading.”
Now, behold your next Stories & Beer lineup:
Aaron Burch‘s fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including The &NOW Awards, The Best Innovative Writing, Another Chicago Magazine, New York Tyrant, Los Angeles Review, and Barrelhouse. His chapbook, How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew, was published by PANK as the winner of their inaugural chapbook contest. He is the author of the novella How to Predict the Weather (Keyhole/Dzanc) and is the founding and current editor of Hobart: another literary magazine.
Monica Berlin‘s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Third Coast, Dislocate, Artful Dodge, The Missouri Review, After Hours, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, Rhino, Memoir (And), and Passages North, where she was awarded the 2009 Thomas R. Hruska Memorial Prize in nonfiction. Currently, an Associate Professor at Knox College in Galesburg, IL., where she teaches poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, Berlin also serves as the Associate Director for the Program in Creative Writing.
Willliam Gillespie has published ten books of fiction and poetry under six different names, most recently Keyhole Factory, by William Gilespie. The recipient of the second MFA in Electronic Writing granted by Brown University, he is co-author of the world’s longest literary palindrome (so declared by Paul Braffort of the Oulipo) and an award-winning hypertext novel. His writing and art has appeared in Electronic Literature Collection, Open City, Poets & Writers, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, Encyclopedia, Cybertext Yearbook, Ninth Letter, and Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, among others. He works for the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois.
Laura Adamczyk lives in Illinois. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Washington Square Review, PANK, Sou’wester, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.
S.P. MacIntyre is an MFA candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His fiction has appeared in The Rattling Wall, and elsewhere.
The lovely and talented Matthew Minicucci’s chapbook Reliquary is available from Accents Publishing. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, Cream City Review, West Branch, and Crazyhorse, among others. He has also been featured on Verse Daily. He currently teaches writing at Millikin University in Decatur, IL.