Two upcoming readings with Eugene Lim

Bad Shadow Affair Reading series
at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm

Laird Hunt,

Tina Brown Celona,

Keith Newton &

Eugene Lim

will read from their work!

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Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:

A Reading with
Paolo Javier,
Eugene Lim,
Christine Hou

Thursday, May 19
6:30 p.m.
Flushing branch of the Queens Library
Rooms A&B, Lower Level
41-17 Main Street
718-661-1200
Join us and celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a reading featuring Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier, novelist Eugene Lim, and poet/art critic Christine Hou.

Roberta Allen reads on 4/12/11

Roberta Allen will read from The Dreaming Girl--a new edition of which is coming out on Ellipsis Press in fall 2011.

7PM CREON Gallery 238 East 24 St, 1B (near 2 Ave) New York, NY

More info at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224

PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions by Norman Lock

New from Ellipsis Press author Norman Lock : PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions -- out this month from Spuyten Duyvil.

There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well. He has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world. --Brian Evenson

Pick it up from Spuyten Duyvil.

Joanna Ruocco wins FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!

Congratulations Joanna Ruocco!

Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Joanna Ruocco has won the second annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. The judge was Ben Marcus.

http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182

HARP & ALTAR PARTY

Sat., April 9th - HARP & ALTAR PARTY: Lichtenstein, Schomburg, Zeiss + Music by Hardin

An Event of Poetry, Art, & Music at Switchyard Studios:
109 SE Salmon St,
Portland, OR 97214

This Saturday, please come on out to Switchyard Studios, where we will host a celebration for the magazine Harp & Altar. Poets Jesse Lichtenstein, Zachary Schomburg will read, as well as fiction writer Michael Zeiss.
http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html

Saturday, April 9th*HARP & ALTAR PARTY@ 6:00 - 8:00p.m.
Jesse Lichtenstein
Zachary Schomburg
Michael Zeiss
Music by Alina Estelle Hardin
& Artwork (TBA)

Jesse Lichtenstein lives in Oregon where he writes poetry, fiction, journalism, and screenplays (and helps run the Loggernaut Reading Series). His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Paris Review, Diagram,EOAGH, Gulf Coast, Octopus, Boston Review, and other journals.

Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit(Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009),Little Blind Thing (Poor Claudia 2010), a dvd of poem-films, and the forthcoming Viking (McSweeney's, 2012). He lives in Portland where he co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine.

Michael Zeiss, a former resident of Portland, recently returned to the city after a decade in New York. Aconsultant for non-profit organizations, he spent five years at the American Red Cross working with people affected by the attacks of September 11. His fiction and criticism appear regularly in Harp & Altar.

Founded in 2006, Harp & Altar is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine edited by poet Keith Newton and novelist Eugene Lim. In its short tenure,Harp & Altar has emerged as an important new source for innovative and risk-taking literature, publishing poetry and fiction alongside criticism and reviews of writing and art. The Harp & Altar Anthology, featuring a selection of poems and stories from the magazine’s first three years, was published in 2010 by Ellipsis Press, and new issues continue to appear twice a year at www.harpandaltar.com

Norman Lock reads 3/23/2011 at The Brooklyn Winery

Come hear Norman Lock, Marcy Dermansky and Lincoln Michel read tonight in Brooklyn! http://tiny.cc/LockinBrooklyn

Vol.1′s monthly reading series returns to the Brooklyn Winery on March 23rd, for an night of readings presented in conjunction with the fine writers, theorists, and critics at Big Other.

When: March 23rd, beginning at 7 PM.
Where: The Brooklyn Winery, 213 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Who: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy’s short fiction has been published widely in literal journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and Fifty-Two Stories. A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize.

Norman Lock is the author of The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press),Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), A History of the Imagination (FC2), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe (Ravenna Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), and–writing as George Belden–Land of the Snow Men (from Calamari Press and in Japanese from Kawade Shobo Shinsha).

Lincoln Michel was born in Virginia and lives in NYC. He is a founding editor of Gigantic magazine and the books editor of The Faster Times. His writing appears in NOON, The Believer, Oxford American, Bookforum, elimae, Esquire.com, The Rumpus, Mississippi Review, McSweeneys.net, Hobart, Mid-American Review and elsewhere.

AD JAMESON on CHANGING THE SUBJECT

AD Jameson in RCF on Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT:

"In this exceedingly clever and mesmerizing collection, Martin guides us through six long stories that each contain numerous other stories, and are themselves also one long, strange fiction... Charmed from the very first sentence, I read this book straight through in a single night, and then reread it as soon as I could. How marvelous to see the story so thoroughly reinvented and reinvigorated! Changing the Subject is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010."

Read the rest of the review here:

Pick up a copy here today:

The Nation on Joanna Ruocco

A great review of Joanna Ruocco's Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009) in the newest issue of The Nation.

One of [The Mothering Coven]’s first descriptive passages, which concerns the witches’ next-door neighbor, presents an image of a lettuce heart as a model of the universe:

Mr. Henderson takes the lettuce heart. He had always thought the physical universe had no shape at all, just a multi-directional nothingness with deep space objects floating around at varying speeds. He realizes that he has been ridiculous. All these dark folded places, opening everywhere at once—of course, that’s what the physical universe looks like.

“Opening everywhere at once” is a good description of The Mothering Coven, which navigates the many, fantastical realities that crowd within the illusory unity of our universe... The novel encompasses a multitude of worlds, its concision no obstacle to its holding capacity, since the latter depends not on mere size but on an endless series of folds, which language is no less capable of creating than is vegetation.

...Ruocco’s coven is a counterproposal to language as a homogenizing force—to words that would flatten out the leaves of the lettuce heart or chop them into uniform, bite-size pieces. Ruocco’s feat is to show how esoteric vocabularies unfold hidden pockets of experience.

Read the full article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco

Pick up a copy today!

Ellipsis Press at AWP in Washington D.C. Table H33

http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011exhibitorslist.php

Necessary Fiction reviews THE MOTHERING COVEN

"There is quite a lot going on in The Mothering Coven: party preparations, art installations, visits from Ms. Kidney and her sled dogs, trips into town, shamanistic journeys, paleozoological studies and a score of research projects. Often, the tone of these activities is deceptively lighthearted. But this is not a book to read with blithe inattention, as much of what happens and what is said could be perceived as nonsensical whimsy. A slower, more careful read detects the fragile threads of what makes this a novel and not a playful and poetic montage... Despite the playfulness of the language and the sometimes comical, offbeat conversations, real moments of tenderness leap up from within these small scenes."

Read the full review by Michelle Bailat-Jones at Necessary Fiction

Order THE MOTHERING COVEN from Ellipsis Press.