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Edge 19: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
A note from the curator: I have often wanted to listen to authors who are in the same place in their career as myself--emerging, published in journals, with a chapbook and/or a first full-length book, still growing but full of passion, new ideas, and an edge. But there is often infrequent opportunity for this; in fact, I have often felt disappointed in the lack, that such an open community might often be circumscribed in its literary programming. Additionally, featuring emerging writers engages other young as well as established writers, to support, frequent and attend Casa Libre and other writing events. This cycle creates the foundation for a writing community which self-generates, remains true, open, and allows many voices the opportunity for visibility and being heard. I want Tucson to be an artistic community which includes and features many voices and peoples. Literature is the province of communication, but also reflectivity, the reflection and representation of all our narratives and of new narratives and ideas, voices which are challenging and also challenge us.
Jennie McStotts and Maria Sara Villa
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5Come to Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a 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. Refreshments will be available after the reading.
Readers:
Jennie McStotts took the long way to a career in creative nonfiction
after graduating from The University of Arizona in 2000. She attended
graduate school and law school in Georgia, where she worked in legal
consulting and the public sector before taking the position of assistant professor of historic preservation and urban studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 2004. After four years, she left Charleston to study in the UA's MFA program in creative writing, after which she hopes to make a career of her words. Her work has been published in Future Anterior, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and by Preservation Books.
Maria Sara Villa was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia. She has lived with her husband and two children in Tucson for 10 years. She dances with ZUZI! Dance Company and has been a birth doula to many families. She currently works at the Birth Center as a receptionist and is slowly making her way to becoming a Nurse. Although she does not consider herself a writer, she is deeply grateful to this medium as a means of expression. She has written many birth stories for the families she has worked with. She thanks all her writer friends who have supported her through many years in her writing of her father's story.
Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2010. (There is no Edge reading in December due to Casa Libre's holiday closure.)
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