Quiet Lightning / virtual literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring:
SIDE A
Rohan DaCosta
Naomi Rosenthal
Carol Dorf
Siamak Vossoughi
Lauren Ito
Michael Warr
Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
Emily Dezurick-Badran
SIDE B
Carol Dorf
Sally Love Saunders
Siok-Hian Tay-Kelley
Charles Kruger
Alexander Laurence
Nick Plett
Genie Cartier
Sara Biel
Paolo Bicchieri
Sara Biel
Carolyn Wilsey
Andrew Paul Nelson
Chun Yu
Lauren Parker
Mary Gayle Thomas
Leah Mueller
All selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 110, featuring cover art by Stuart Robertson!
Please note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content), but RSVP is required.
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ABOUT THE BOOKS
If you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue.
A note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds, donations or not, go toward local artists and independent businesses.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Kevin Dublin is a writer of poetry, prose, scripts, and code originally from the small town of Smithfield, NC. His words have recently appeared in The Racket, Cincinnati Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Sparkle + Blink, and he is author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Kevin holds an MFA from San Diego State, leads workshops all over the bay area, including Litquake’s Elder Writing Project, and enjoys making video adaptations of poetry and developing web apps for writers.
Antony Fangary is a Coptic-American Poet, Educator, and Artist living in San Francisco. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Oakland Review, New American Writing, Interim, Welter, and elsewhere. His chapbook, HARAM, was published by Etched Press in 2019. Antony was Honorable Mention of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize, Finalist for the 2019 Wabash Prize, Runner-up for the 2020 Test Site Poetry Series, and holds an MFA from San Francisco State University.
Can’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text, like all of our previous readings! Find them, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more, @ Litseen.
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Featured images by Stuart Robertson, featured artist for sPARKLE + bLINK 110