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Edge: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers

Shannon Cain and TC Tolbert
Thursday, February 28
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $3

Come to the inaugural reading of Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a new series of local and national writers and cross-genre artists, emphasizing diversity of narrative, identity and literary source. Its purpose is to create community, visibility and voice for emerging and younger writers. Broadsheets of the authors' work will accompany each reading. Books and journals will be available for purchase and signing by the authors. Wine and lights drinks will be available after the reading.

Edge is curated by Melissa Buckheit

Shannon Cain earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and in 2006 was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short story “The Necessity of Certain Behaviors” was awarded a 2008 O. Henry Prize. Her stories have appeared most recently in Tin House, the New England Review, and The Massachusetts Review. She is the Executive Director of Kore Press ( www.korepress.org), an independent publisher of literature by women, and is currently at work on a novel.

TC Tolbert is a gender-queer feminist, photographer, thinker, and poet. He received his MFA in Poetry from The University of Arizona in 2005 and is now learning to play a little classical guitar. He will soon be starting a support group for artists addicted to myspace. Join myspace and add him as a friend to find out more (www.myspace.com/tigercakes or www.tigercakes74.blogspot.com).

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