Everybody knows that good writing takes good reading. To make up for the un-writing I am doing, I am reading many many books, all by women.
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Juniper Bends: A Reading Series (Recap)
Hey friends. A big fat thank you to our readers at the JB Reading Series last Friday, John Crutchfield, Katherine Min, Katey Schultz, and Chett Tiller. The line-up was diverse, engaging, energizing, and tons of fun. This reading was particularly exciting for me since we had four “prose” writers reading wildly varied work. John sang … Continue reading »
Chett Tiller: Lies A Lot
Chett Tiller is named after a grandfather who he never met and raised to be a scientist or a mathematician for NASA. Unlike NASA, Chett has proved that there’s life on Mars, little green life that wants to turn your brains into some kind of delicious and gray empanada. He is, after all, an investigator … Continue reading »
Allison Smith: An Actual Nice Person
Allison is a writer of non-fiction essays, feminist Tweets, and the occasional bomb-ass cover letter. She would hold hands with the Oxford comma if it asked, but she won’t force it upon your writing. She loves the weird web-y world of communication, wants to follow you on Instagram, and can’t wait to see where publishing … Continue reading »
Eben Fenton: Proscicles
Eben Bruce Fenton grew up with animals and one sister who still wants a tiny bluish box to translate the yellow dog’s tremulous whimpers. Eben reads prose to ignore the antic warnings. As penance he labors bent across minutia-based fiction in a lightless downstairs apartment overseen by two black eyed and quiet Daschunds. He speaks … Continue reading »
Jesse Rice-Evans: Good at Talking
Jesse Rice-Evans is a lapsed Catholic with a penchant for nectarines, community acupuncture, catnip and, like any self-respecting poet, sunsets. She writes surrealist and imagistic prose poetry about myth, magic, sex & food. She also writes critical cultural essays that moulder on her hard drive and quickly dissolve into untimeliness. She is our event coordinator … Continue reading »
Amy Borg: The Idea Girl
Even before randomly bringing up the idea of an Author Collective to some of her awesome writing colleagues at UNCA, Amy has always been passionate about discovering and creating literature. Her past lives include being a Linguistics student at NYU and a Graphic Design student at the Art Institute of Charlotte. Not even she has … Continue reading »
