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.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
With a new location, Featherless rides again!
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.
We will be announcing dates shortly. If you are interested in reading at future events, please contact us at featherless.la@gmail.com.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Hiatus II
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.
Thanks for tuning in.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Hiatus
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.
We would like to thank everyone who has participated in the readings, and especially Brenda Varda, the Wordspace director, and Richard Tuttobene.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Featherless #9
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.
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.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Pictures from Featherless #8
Harold Abramowitz took pictures for Featherless #8, catch the flickr set here
I took a few as well, here are our readers:
I took a few as well, here are our readers:
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| Tisa Bryant |
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| Amanda Ackerman |
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| Jessica Piazza |
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Featherless #8
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.
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.
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