WANTED: WRITERS!, A Literary Reading Series at the Rumor Mill
Wednesday, 9/8/2010 from 7:30-10:00 pm
SPECIAL WHAT BOOKS PRESS EDITION
Each of our distinguished readers
this week is a widely-published
writer, and all teach poetry or
literature in California universities.
WBP is "a collective of diverse, LA-
based writers and artists whose work
defies ready classification" and that
exists "to create, promote, and
celebrate new books of literary
writing and astounding art." Learn more about WBP at
KATHARINE HAAKE's prior books include a novel, That Water, Those Rocks and the LA Times best-selling collection of stories, The Height and Depth of Everything, both from the University of Nevada 
Press Western Literature Series; her first book was No Reason on Earth (Dragon Gate Press). Her short fiction has appeared widely in such magazines as One Story,The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, and The Santa Monica Review, and has been featured in the online magazine, Segue, as well as in the at the Beverly Hills New Short Fiction Series.
Haake is a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, along with distinguished story recognitions from Best American Short Stories and Best of the West, an Editor's Choice Award from Cream City Review, and an Honorable Mention in the Fountain Award for Speculative Literature.
A regular contributor to scholarship in the theory and pedagogy of creative writing, she is also the author of What Our Speech Disrupts: Feminism and Creative Writing Studies (NCTE); and, with Hans Ostrom and the late Wendy Bishop, Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively (Longman). She teaches at California State University, Northridge.
CHUCK ROSENTHAL was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and has lived in the western U.S. since 1979. He's the author of seven published novels and a memoir. The novels: Loop's Progress, Experiments with Life and Deaf, Loop's End (the Loop Trilogy), Elena of the Stars, Avatar Angel: The Last Novel of Jack Kerouac, My Mistress Humanity, and The Heart of Mars. The memoir: Never Let Me Go.
His work has been nominated for The National Book Award, The PEN West Award for Fiction, the PEN International Award for Fiction, the Critics Book Circle Award for Fiction, the American Library Association Most Notable Book Award, and for Best American Creative Non-fiction. He is a three time winner of the Utah Arts Council Award for Fiction. He has given readings, lectures, classes, and interviews, live as well as on radio and television, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies such as The Santa Monica Review, Volt, The Denver Quarterly, See, Chicago Review, California Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, VERB, The Pocket Field Guide, Absolute Disaster, Silent Voices, Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Western Humanities Review, Along the Lake, and others. (That's Chuck's new horse, La Femme Nikita below, a real beauty whose picture just seemed worthy of inclusion.)
Lizard Dream, KAREN KERVORKIAN's new poems, reflects her
deep affinity for the austere and revelatory southwestern and western landscapes that she experienced growing up in South Texas and traveling across country before eventually settling in California. She now teaches poetry and fiction workshops at UCLA, having moved recently from Charlottesville, where she taught writing workshops at the University of Virginia for six years.
Her previous book of poems is White Stucco Black Wing (2004). She has published poetry and fiction in journals including the Antioch, Agni, Massachusetts, Virginia Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry, Rio Grande, River City, Mississippi, Los Angeles, and Five Fingers reviews.
Other journals include Witness, VOLT, Third Coast, Shenandoah, Fiction International, and the online journals The Drunken Boat and Archipelago.
WANTED: WRITERS! is a forum dedicated to both authors reading from published works and original works-in-progress. Authors interested in giving voice to their writing— short stories, novels, essays, plays or poetry—should sign-up on our registration sheet or contact: Joe Staats * 310-889-6172
THE RUMOR MILL, a coffeehouse/gallery/performance space. 11739 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066 • website: therumormill.us 310-397-5400
