[ December 13, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]

Come on out to Orlando’s premier fiction reading series, hosted by Ampersand’s own J. Bradley.  Awesomeness will be provided by Benjamin Lowenkron, author of Preacher’s Blues and the upcoming Bone River, along with R.W. Graham, Laura Ellen Scott, and Leslie Salas.

Urban ReThink
625 E. Central Boulevard
Orlando
Dec. 13, 2011
7-8 P.M.

[ September 9, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
A Very Special, Dire Event!
Tim Gager’s Dire Literary Series
Friday, September 9 · 8:00pm – 10:00pm
Out of the Blue Art Gallery
106 Prospect Street,
 
Reading from RE:Telling will be
Erin Fitzgerald
Darcie Dennigan
Steve Himmer
How many times can Super Mario die? Did Borges visit Indiana, or did Indiana visit Borges? Does the devil drink milk and, if not, why does he [...]

Review by Tyler Gillespie
University of Iowa Press John Simmons Short Fiction Award, 2010. 176 pages.
Barbara Hamby’s first collection of short stories, Lester Higata’s 20th Century is a lyrical voyage through the Hawai’i of past ancestors and present ghosts. Throughout the stories, which are almost-magically intertwined, Hamby crafts a narrative of love, loss, [...]

Friend of the press and general, all-around badass Vincent Celluci, author of An Easy Place / to Die and Riverer-in-Chief of the Baton Rouge River Writers, requests your presence in a truly orgiastic poetry anthology.  Fuck Poems.

FUCK POEMS
: an exceptional anthology
eds: Vincent A. Cellucci
Bill Lavender
publisher: Lavender Ink (http://www.lavenderink.org/)
deadline for submissions: OCTOBER 1, 2011
dirty details: [...]

There’s nothing worse than a brainless book review.  Charles Baxter describes a certain type of facile saying-of-nothing in his Fiction Writer’s Review essay, “Owl Criticism:” reviews based on highly subjective personal preference that say more about the reviewer than the book in question.  ”This book has an owl in it, and I don’t like owls,” [...]

[ May 29, 2011; 8:15 pm to 10:15 pm. ]
In a Disney-free celebration of the written-and-belted out word, Literary Death Match is teaming with Page15 & Urban ReThink to make it’s way to central Florida, for an Orlando literary celebration for the ages!

The night’s all-star judging geniuses include former Seven Mary Three Drummer Giti Khalsa (co-chair of the Urban think! Foundation), Madden NFL 12′s executive producer Phil Frazier, and [...]

[ May 21, 2011; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Joseph Riippi, reading with Sarah Rose Etter, Steve Himmer, Paul Maliszewski, and Scott McClanahan at Baltimore’s only dedicated fiction series.
Get details and updates here.
Minás Gallery, 815 W. 36th Street, Hampden (that’s Baltimore).

[ May 15, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
Join Ampersand authors Melissa Broder and Joseph Riippi, along with Re:Telling contributor Steve Himmer at the Soda Series!
Soda Bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
629 Vanderbilt Ave

[ May 20, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Welcome, one and all to RE:TELLING MORALS, the official New York launch of
Re:Telling
and a special pre-release celebration of:
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
Rae Bryant’s upcoming collection from Patasola Press!
With readings by:

Shya Scanlon
Jeff Brewer
& Rae Bryant!
Dancers!      Drinks!
Giveaways!
May 20th, 2011, 8 P.M.
@ The Way Station
683 Washington Ave
btw prospect and st marks
A/ to Washington or 2/3 [...]

by Christopher Katz

Steven Seighman is best known for his book covers, some of the most visually arresting and inspired on the market today.  He is heavily involved in the independent literary scene, both as a book designer and as an editor of his own magazine, Monkeybicycle, which he founded in the early 2000s. Being an [...]