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Featherless #13

2012-01-14T16:09:00.000-08:00

February's Featherless surprises and delights. On the lineup: Edward Gauvin, Kate Durbin, and Camille Roy. On February 10th, 2012, at 8 pm, join us at Stories Books & Cafe for a literary evening.

Bios to follow:

The winner of the John DrydenTranslation prize, Edward Gauvin hasreceived fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright Program, theCentre National du Livre, and the American Literary Translators' Association.His volume of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life onPaper (Small Beer, 2010) won the Science Fiction & Fantasy TranslationAward and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Othertranslations have appeared in Tin House, Subtropics, The Harvard Review, TheSouthern Review, AGNI Online, and PEN America. The contributingeditor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, he translatescomics for Top Shelf, Archaia, and Lerner.

Writing under the name H.V. Chao,his fiction has previously been published in Epiphany,Nanoism, and Diet Soap. He is a first year fiction PhD student atUSC.

KateDurbin is a Los Angeles-based writer andperformance artist. Her books include The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E!Entertainment (Insert/Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), Gaga Stigmata(Zg Press, forthcoming), The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, withAmaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming).

CamilleRoy is a writer and performer of fiction,poetry, and plays. Her book, Sherwood Forest came out in 2011 fromFuturepoem. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative, abook of essays by writers on their own experimental practices (CoachHouse). Herbooks include Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, afictional autobiography from 2^nd Story Books , as well as Swarm(two novellas, Black Star Series). Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions(poetry and prose, from Kelsey St Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, fromLeslie Scalapino's O Books). She was a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity(http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity). Royhas taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at severalinstitutions, including San Francisco State University, California StateUniversity SummerArts, and Naropa.

Exciting! Exciting!

Photos from Featherless #12

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Ebony Williams


Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal

Tim Cummings

Thanks to the writers and audience for a magical night. Stay tuned for our next event on February 10th.

Featherless #12

2011-12-31T12:08:00.000-08:00

It's the first Featherless of 2012, and we have threeexciting readers for January. Ebony Williams, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal andTim Cummings will present their work at Stories Books & Cafe at 8 pm onFriday, January 13th.

Ebony Williams is a native New Yorker, born and raised inBrooklyn. Her work usually falls on the side of creative non-fiction and isn’tafraid to straddle the line between poetry and prose. Her work tends to explorethe experiences of women in the Diaspora as well as the female body ascontainer for memory, for culture, for an ancestral home often impacted bytrauma. Ebony attended Wheaton College in Norton, MA for undergrad majoring inSociology with a minor in English literature with a focus on creative writing.She spent two-years running the Women and Gender Program at Wheaton College’sMarshall Center for Intercultural Learning after graduating. Currently, Ebonyis in her final year of pursuing her Master’s of Fine Arts in Writing from theCalifornia Institute of the Arts. In addition, Ebony is working on a work ofhybrid creative non-fiction, How To Build A Ragdoll, as well as a mixed mediavisual art instillation and workshop series titled, The Ragdoll Project. Ebonyis also on the third book of a Science Fiction trilogy, Grey Society.

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal is a pop culture rubbernecker and NYCtraitor to LA. Her writing has been published in The Collagist, PANK, and Work Magazine,presented at the 2011 &Now Festival of Innovative Writing, and isforthcoming in the inaugural Artists Among Artists collection Faggot Dinosaur.She recently received a Lambda Literary Fellowship and is finishing an MFA inWriting at CalArts.

Tim Cummings was born and raised in New York, and holds adegree in theater and writing from New York University. He is apassionate storyteller who works in a variety of mediums: writing, visuals,theater, film, music, and dance. His most recent collection of shortfiction, ORPHANS, was released this past summer to critical acclaim. Hismost recent stage appearances were in The Walworth Farce at Theatre Banshee,and the ten-year anniversary performances of Anne Nelson’s 9/11 play The Guysat The Flea Theater in New York City. Tim is an octopus and spiderenthusiast and is, in general, a lover of all octolegged creatures.

Delicious snacks and coffee will be available in thebookstore cafe, so stay and mingle.

Photos from Featherless #11

2011-11-29T12:08:00.001-08:00


Kristoffer Huelgas


Angela Peñaredondo


Diana Salier

Many thanks to the poets and participants for a great reading. Our next event will be January 13, 2012. Happy winterfest!

Featherless #11

2011-10-21T14:46:00.000-07:00

It's Fall! This November features Kristoffer Huelgas,Angela Peñaredondo and Diana Salier at Stories Books and Cafe. OnFriday, November 11th at 8pm, the back patio at 1716 Sunset Blvd will be loudwith poetry.

Their bios:

Kristoffer Huelgasoriginally got interested in poetry to impress girls. By the time he realizedthe assumption was unfounded, it was too late. Drawing influences from art,literature, and contemporary pop culture, he endeavors to find the heart of thematter; the most important aspects of the most minute and miniscule. In 2009Kristoffer received his BA in English with a focus on creative writing,studying under the tutelage of Kenyon poetry prize winner Leilani Hall andPushcart Prize winner Dorothy Barresi. Kristoffer was born in, raised on, andfed Los Angeles, but has also been known to get lost in the Pacific Northwestfor considerable stints. He is a regular reader at Canoga Park’s Cobalt Caféwhere he has been featured. He currently resides in Sun Valley, California,where he considers himself laureate.

Angela Peñaredondois an emerging Los Angeles poet and visual artist. She was born in Iloilo City,Philippines and grew up in Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Shereceived her BFA from San Francisco State University and also studied mixedmedia arts in the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia. Angela has a professional background in art management, curatorial practice andyouth advocacy. She was awarded a UCLA Community Access Scholarship forpoetry and a Fishtrap Fellowship.

Diana Salier is amusician and person who writes. Her first chapbook WIKIPEDIA SAYS IT WILLPASS was released on Deadly Chaps Press in September 2011. She's agraduate of NYU's creative writing program, and her work has appeared in EveryDay Genius, Nap Magazine, Red Lightbulbs, 3:AM Magazine, and Robot Melon, amongother places. She's currently working on a full-length collection called LettersFrom Robots. She grew up in a house in Los Angeles and now lives in anapartment in San Francisco. She writes a lot about outerspace but hasnever been there.

Photos from Featherless #10

2011-10-17T20:17:00.000-07:00

Diana Arterian reads from "The Catskill Eagle"

Stephen van Dyck reads "He."

Lisa Teasley reads from Heat Signature

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the first Featherless event at our new location, Stories Books in Echo Park. Our next event will be Friday, November 11th at 8pm. Hope to see you then!

Featherless #10: October Reviving

2011-09-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

It's our first event in the new space, and we're excited to bring these three writers to Stories Books. Diana Arterian, Stephen van Dyck and Lisa Teasley will be reading on Friday, October 14th, at 8 pm. Come a little early to have some coffee or a nibble and check out the bookstore, which is full of delicious finds.

The bios:

Diana Arterian has found herself to be a poet who writes nonfiction narrative manuscripts. She is on the founding board of Gold Line Press (a publisher of fiction and poetry chapbooks), the curator of the annual Sumarr Reading Series, as well as the La Mision Writer's Retreat in Baja, Mexico.
Diana is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing as a Merit Fellow at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA in poetry from the California Institute of the Arts, where she was a Beutner Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in River Styx and Iron Horse Literary Review. For more info visit http://dianaarterian.com.

Stephen van Dyck is a semi-recent MFA graduate of Integrated Media, Critical Studies and Experimental Sound Practices at CalArts. He curated the Sunset Boulevard, Washington Boulevard and San Fernando Road Concerts in 2011, 2009 and 2008, all-day arts events where over 200 artists and citizens re-imagined unused urban spaces along the entire lengths of one of LA's very long city streets with installations, performances, discussions and car pool happenings. He's currently amidst completion of his first book, "People I've Met from the Internet," a conceptual writing project, coming out/coming of age story and field study in the form of a very long annotated list. He's been Home Depot's unrequited artist-in-residence since 2007. And he runs BELLYFLOP, a gallery space, concert hall, theater, opera house, laboratory and space of worship that appears as a full-water 10 ft. deep swimming pool.

Lisa Teasley is the author of the critically acclaimed novels HEAT SIGNATURE and DIVE, and the award-winning story collection, GLOW IN THE DARK, all published by Bloomsbury. Lisa Teasley is writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary "High School Prom," and has taught in many writing programs, including UCLA, Antioch, Cal Arts and UC Riverside. Her homepage is www.lisateasley.com.

With a new location, Featherless rides again!

2011-08-22T15:50:00.000-07:00

After a long break, both for nuptuals and orphanhood, Featherless has found a new home. We are super happy to begin holding events at Stories Books & Cafe, located at 1716 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026. On this lively stretch of Sunset, winding through Echo Park, we hope to bring new readers and audience members for lively salons.

We will be announcing dates shortly. If you are interested in reading at future events, please contact us at featherless.la@gmail.com.

Hiatus II

2011-07-11T20:07:00.000-07:00

Featherless will be on a more extended hiatus through June, July, and August. We are in search of a new venue, and focusing on personal projects.

Thanks for tuning in.

Hiatus

2011-03-21T17:48:00.000-07:00

Featherless will be on hiatus for April and May of 2011, as Katie and I are getting married.

We would like to thank everyone who has participated in the readings, and especially Brenda Varda, the Wordspace director, and Richard Tuttobene.

Featherless #9

2011-03-05T15:54:00.000-08:00

Featherless #9 will take place on March 20, at 7:30 pm, at Wordspace. Our exciting readers are Peter Mehlman, and Meghan Brown.

Their bios:

After graduating from the University of Maryland, Peter Mehlman was a
writer for the Washington Post. He slid to television in 1982, writing
for SportsBeat with Howard Cosell. From 1985-90, he returned to
forming full sentences as a writer for numerous national publications
including the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Mademoiselle,
Elle, etc.

In 1989 he moved to Los Angeles where he bumped into Larry David, whom
he'd met twice in New York. David, developing “a little show with
Jerry Seinfeld,” invited Mehlman to submit a sample script. Having
never written one, Mehlman sent a humor piece he had written for the
Times Magazine and got an assignment, which became the first Seinfeld
freelance episode, “The Apartment.” Over the run of the show, Mehlman
rose to executive producer and coined such Seinfeld-isms as “Yada
Yada” “spongeworthy,” “shrinkage” and “double-dipping.”

In 1997, Mehlman joined DreamWorks and created “It’s like, you
know...” a scathing look at Los Angeles. In recent years, he has
written screenplays, a novel and humor pieces for NPR, Esquire, The
New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times while also appearing
on-camera for TNT Sports and the Webby nominated “Pete Mehlman’s
Narrow World of Sports."

Meghan Brown is a writer, director, and producer based out of Los
Angeles. Meghan attended UC Irvine where she graduated with a BA in
Drama and Honors in Theater Directing.

Meghan is the Resident Playwright for Giraffe Hunt Theater, and serves
on their board of directors. She works as a staff writer, producer,
and director for BrevityTV.com, and is a frequent culture contributor
to the Atlantic Monthly website.

Her full-length plays Perfect Teeth for Crocodile Land and This is
Happening Now have had successful runs in Los Angeles. Other produced
plays include Jack’s Last Night in Town (WTC, Portland), Ophelia (WIT
Lab), The Giraffe Hunt (CST), The Blindness and the Fireworks (CST),
Patrick and Olivia (CST), Little Secrets (Found Spaces Theater), and
Psyche (reading, East West Players). She’s currently writing the book
and lyrics for the upcoming musical Scoop, and mentally preparing for
her upcoming move to Switzerland in fall 2011.

Writing is Meghan's favorite thing in the world. She also enjoys
fortune-telling machines, magic tricks, short stories with unreliable
narrators, giraffes, and getting emotionally invested in movie
trailers. Fore more info, check out her website at
www.meghanbrown.net.

Reception to follow.

Pictures from Featherless #8

2011-02-21T12:26:00.000-08:00

Harold Abramowitz took pictures for Featherless #8, catch the flickr set here

I took a few as well, here are our readers:


Tisa Bryant

Amanda Ackerman

Jessica Piazza

Featherless #8

2011-01-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

Featherless #8 will be held on February 20th at 7:30 pm at Wordspace. Jessica Piazza, Amanda Ackerman, and Tisa Bryant will perform.

The readers:

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jessica Piazza received a
creative writing master’s from UT Austin, where she co-founded Bat
City Review. She now lives in Los Angeles, pursuing a PhD in
Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern
California, co-editing the Gold Line Press chapbook series and
co-directing The Loudest Voice reading series. She is a contributing
editor at The Offending Adam and her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in Mid-American Review, National Poetry Review, Rattle,
Agni, 32 Poems, Indiana Review, Forklift Ohio, Barrelhouse and 42
Opus, among other places.

Amanda Ackerman lives in Los Angeles where she writes and teaches.
She is co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She is also a member of
UNFO (The Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization) and writes as
part of SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS. Her publications include three
chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), the
recently-released The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), and the
forthcoming I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot
#8). Her work can also be found in several journals including the
current edition of Little Red Leaves and The Encyclopedia Project:
Volume F-K.

Tisa Bryant’s books include Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), a
collection of hybrid essays on black presences in film, literature and
visual art; the cross-referenced journal of narrative possibility, The
Encyclopedia Project, War Diaries, an anthology on black gay men’s
desire and survival, published in 2010 by AIDS Project Los Angeles,
co-edited with Ernest Hardy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in the journals 1913, Mandorla, Animal Shelter, and has been featured
in the solo exhibits of visual artists Laylah Ali, Jaime Cortez,
Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and filmmaker/installation artist Cauleen Smith.
She teaches fiction, hybrid forms and ethnic innovative literature at
the California Institute of the Arts.

Reception to follow.

Pictures from Featherless #7

2011-01-17T11:18:00.000-08:00


m.g. martin


Mathew Timmons


Thaisa Frank

Shameka Cunningham

Featherless #7

2011-01-06T14:51:00.000-08:00

Featherless #7 will take place on January 16th, at 7:30 pm, at
Wordspace. We have three very exciting readers this time, from the
bestselling author Thaisa Frank, experimental poet/critic/critical
poet Mathew Timmons, and the mysterious spoken word artist m.g.
martin. Come see.three very different voices collide, collude, and
inspire....and then stay for handmade nibbles.

The readers:

Thaisa Frank is the author of two acclaimed short story anthologies
SLEEPING IN VELVET and A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAMOUFLAGE. She also
co-authored the nonfiction work FINDING YOUR WRITER'S VOICE, which is
taught in MFA programs. Her new novel HEIDEGGER’S GLASSES centers
around a secret Compound of Scribes, tasked by Third Reich officials
to answer letters sent to the dead in the concentration camps.
Exploring the fluid boundaries between recorded history and the life
of the imagination, the novel reconstructs the landscape of Nazi
Germany from an entirely original vantage point. A two-time Pen Award
Winner and Pushcart nominee, Ms. Frank has taught writing at San
Francisco State, UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, and leads workshops
and writing retreats nationwide.

Mathew Timmons' works include The New Poetics (Les Figues Press),
Sound Noise (Little Red Leaves), The Archanoids (a cd of solo and
collaborative sound poetries), CREDIT (Blanc Press) and Lip
ServiceWhere is it Written? from Imipolex Press, and After Darío from
Molo Press. His visual and performance work has been shown at (323)
Projects, LACE, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CCA, Outpost for
Contemporary Art, ArtSpeak Vancouver, LACMA, UCLA Hammer Museum, and as part of ArtLA. Mathew works as the General Director of General
Projects, editor of Insert Press, Los Angeles editor of Joyland,
Co-Host of LA-Lit 2005-2009, and has curated events, readings and
ephemeral art shows for Beyond Baroque, Betalevel, workspace, and
REDCAT. His writing may be found in various journals including
P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Out of Nothing, Mammut, Area
Sneaks, Try, Or, Emohippus, Luvina, Aufgabe and The Encyclopedia
Project. His critical writing may be found in Artweek, Artillery,
ArtSlant, The Magazine, The Poetry Project Newsletter and X-TRA.
(Slack Buddha). Forthcoming projects include two chapbooks:

m.g. martin is the author of One For None (Ink.) available through
Small Press Distribution: http://bit.ly/c1oesE. His poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Shampoo, Evergreen Review
& Short, Fast and Deadly. m.g. co-produced/hosted Literary Death
Match SF & is moving to NYC where he will co-host LDM NY. Spam
musubi is m.g.'s favorite food as it takes him back to his native
Hawaii. Follow his tweets at: @themgmartin & check out his blog at
mgmartin.tumblr.com. The problem is: none of this is true, m.g.
doesn't even exist.

Featherless Christmas Party!

2010-12-14T20:32:00.000-08:00

Dear friends of featherless,

This December, in lieu of the usual reading, we are hosting a party to celebrate the season...and all of you!

On December 17th, from 7-10 pm, come one come all to Wordspace for the Featherless Christmas Party.

The party is a potluck and open reading. There will be homemade crostini and other festive nibblings. Bring your own culinary successes (or purchased yums), along with a short piece to read if you would like. Rather than a formal reading, we will be having a casual open-mic style brouhaha for anyone who would like to participate.

The bar will be tending to your red wine needs, if the open mic needs encouragement.

But that's not all! The festivities will also include a white elephant gift exchange, also optional, for anyone who can/wants to bring a small something (under $10!)

We'll be wearing antlers and ringing jingle bells.

It's free, y'all! There is absolutely no reason not to come. NONE.

Pictures from Featherless #6

2010-11-22T17:11:00.000-08:00


Jon Bernstein


Lisa Locascio

Katy Petty

Featherless #6

2010-10-19T05:05:00.000-07:00

Our little Featherless is growing up! It's hard to believe the November event will be our semianniversary. The lineup is as follows:

Jon Bernstein wrote the screenplays BEAUTIFUL, starring Minnie Driver and directed by Sally Field, RINGMASTER, starring Jerry Springer, and Disney's MEET THE ROBINSONS. His plays include SHOWCASE! and THE BLUNDERS. He teaches screenwriting at UCLA extension and Wordspace. His book Ravenous Ambition will be out in 2011.

Lisa Locascio was born in Chicago and holds two degrees from New York University. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Southern California, where she also teaches writing. Her work has appeared on the American Short Fiction website as well as in several print journals, including The Northwest Review and Fifth Wednesday Journal. For more information, please visit www.lisalocascio.com.

Katy Petty received her BA in Semiotics from Brown and her MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts. Her work has appeared in Black Clock, Ghetto Blaster, Monologues by Women for Women, and the film RADIATION in which she also starred. Currently, she is writing her first novel, Perpetual Twilight.

The reading will take place at 7:30 pm on November 21, at Wordspace.

Also! Stay tuned for news about the Featherless Christmas party in December.

Pictures from Featherless #5

2010-10-18T09:33:00.000-07:00


Mila Pesko


Diane Sherry Case

Andrea Lambert

2010-10-15T11:48:00.001-07:00

Featherless #5

2010-10-06T13:22:00.000-07:00

Featherless #5 will be held at Wordspace on October 17th, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Mila Pesko has published an autobiography disguised as a children's book called, Little Mary of the Rose and the Giant Baked Bean. She is now in the process of developing a show and a movie about Patti Smith. Neither of which she will be disguising as a children's anything. She lives in Smoke Free, but not Mafia Free, Glendale with her flying cat, Sam.

A veteran actress of film, stage and television, Diane Sherry Case also has her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She has taught creative writing to incarcerated teens, private school girls, and adults. Both her fiction and non-fiction have been widely published in anthologies and journals, as well as adapted to film. Highlights of her life include meeting the Beatles, playing Lana Lang in Superman, and working as the strong man's assistant in a Mexican circus.

Andrea Lambert is the author of Jet Set Desolate (Future Fiction London) and Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin / 730910-2155 (valeveil press). She is in process of revising a punk novella called Scaffolding. Her work can be seen in 3:AM Magazine, Chronometry, and Lime Tea. She co-curates the Featherless reading series with Katie Jacobson. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reception to follow.

Featherless #4

2010-09-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

Featherless #4 will be held at Wordspace on September 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Khadija Anderson returned in 2008 to her native Los Angeles after 18 years exile in Seattle. Khadija's poetry has been published extensively in print, online, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Antioch University L.A. and her poem "Islam for Americans" was a 2011 Pushcart nominee.

Sarah B. Burghauser is an LA-based writer, scholar, and mixed-media artist. Sarah publishes with A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin literary journal, is a Lambda Literary Writers Retreat Fellow, and has been awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony. Currently Sarah works on her first book, Nincarnation, a text that insists it is possible to know oneself in the life of another.

Michael Molitch-Hou™ is founder and chair of the Reality™ Institute, a service institute dedicated to understanding reality in the silliest way possible. He is a current MFA student at CalArts in the field of creative writing and a firm advocate of world peace.

Reception to follow.

2010-08-14T19:53:00.001-07:00

Featherless #3

2010-08-06T13:45:00.000-07:00

Featherless #3 will be held at Wordspace on August 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Kirsty Singer is a semi-native Southern Californian and the daughter of scientists. In another life she might have been a really bad taxonomist. Instead she writes poems in which she records signs from the universe.

Valerie Savior currently lives in Los Angeles where she writes poetry and fiction when she is not at work at Occidental College. Valerie’s work has appeared in Carnet de Route, Colorado Review, Fine Madness, The Germ, The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, and Volt.

Anthony McCann is the author of Father of Noise, Moongarden and the forthcoming collection I Heart Your Fate. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reception to follow.

2010-07-13T19:37:00.001-07:00

Featherless #2

2010-07-02T23:46:00.000-07:00

Featherless #2 will be held at Wordspace on July 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm.

The readers:

Ama Birch lives in Los Angeles, California. She has authored three chapbooks, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," "Faces in the Clouds," and "Forms".

Chiwan Choi's poems and essays have appeared in ONTHEBUS, Esquire, and circa, among others. Chiwan's first collection of poetry, The Flood, was published by Tia Chucha Press in April, 2010. He received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and with his wife, Judith Oden runs Writ Large Press, published Los Angeles writers.

Harold Abramowitz is a writer from Los Angeles. His recent publications include Not Blessed (Les Figues Press) and A House on a Hill {A House on a Hill, Part One} (Insert Press) Harold writes collaboratively as part of SOSY and UNFO, and co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.

Reception to follow.

2010-06-15T09:37:00.000-07:00

Featherless #1

2010-06-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Featherless #1 will be held at Wordspace on June 20 at 7:30 pm. Wordspace is located at 3191 Casitas Ave. #156, Los Angeles CA 90039 [map]. Featherless is curated by Katie Jacobson and Andrea Lambert.

The readers:

Allison Carter is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press), and two chapbooks: Shadows are Weather (Horse Less Press) and All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions (Blanc Press). She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she co-edits the Particle Series (psbooks.org). For more information: accarter.com

Saehee Cho holds a BA in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego and a MFA in Writing from Calarts. She has just completed her first collection of short stories tentatively titled "Form, Composite." Her work has been featured in Shrapnel and Ex Nihilo. Aside from writing, she bakes.

Flint just completed her first book, Blood: A Memoir, and is editing an anthology charting the spectrum of feminist ideologies of sexual desire. She is on the adjunct faculty at Antioch University and California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches writing, with an emphasis on the interplay between creative nonfiction and critical theories of identity.

Reception to follow.

Updates for our first event

2010-05-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Our first event will be held on Sunday, June 20, at 7:30 pm at Wordspace, which is located at 3191 Casitas Avenue, #156, Los Angeles CA. We have a confirmation from the first of our three readers, whose names we will announce upon confirmation from the other two.

We have been privileged to work with designer Omar Routher, who is creating our logo, to be revealed shortly. Omar has also volunteered to design posters for our events.

We hope to see a lot of you at our premiere reading, and as always, you may contact us at featherless.la@gmail.com with any inquiries.

Location, Location, Location!

2010-05-19T13:48:00.000-07:00

We at featherless are pleased to announce that we have found a venue! Brenda Varda has been kind enough to offer Wordspace to host the series. We could not be more thrilled.

We will be contacting potential readers and announcing dates shortly. Stay tuned!