FC2

Thursday, April 8, 2010
FC2 Flash Reading
7:00 PM Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St, Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202
Matt Roberson, Rob Stephenson, Steve Katz, Vanessa Place, Lynn Kilpatrick, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Susan Steinberg, Brian Evenson, Brian Kiteley, Cris Mazza, Debra Di Blasi, Lance Olsen, Jan Ramjerdi, Steve Gutierrez, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jeffrey DeShell, Elisabeth Sheffield, Margo Berdeshevsky

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM Granite Room, Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor
R145. Ellipses as Art: Crafting Omission of Information in a Text
Yuriy Tarnawsky, Steve Tomasula, Debra Di Blasi

Noon – 1:15 PM Room 205, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
R145. The New Domestic Fiction
Lynn Kilpatrick, Matt Roberson, Lidia Yuknavitch

Noon – 1:15 PM Rooms 403 and 404 Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
R187. Byronic Vampires and Melancholy Green Men: Harnessing Genre for Literary Use
Stephen Graham Jones

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Room 108, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
R197. Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Stories from the United States and Latin America
Stephen D. Guitierrez

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Rooms 401 and 402, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
R209. Goodbye Blue Monday: Remembering the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut
Michael Martone

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM Room 111, Colorado Center, Street Level
R223. Orbiting Salt: A Quarterly West/ Western Humanities Review/Barrelhouse/ Versal Reading
Cris Mazza

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM Rooms 301 and 302, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
R229. Until We Get It Right: 39 Years of Experiments in Fiction at CU Boulder
Jeffrey DeShell, Steve Katz, Elisabeth Sheffield

Friday, April 9

Noon – 1:15PM Agate Room, Hyatt Regency Denver, 3rd Floor
F166. How Words Matter
Lance Olsen, R.M. Berry, Lidia Yuknavitch, Vanessa Place

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Room 201, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
F200. University of Denver Faculty Fiction Reading
Brian Kiteley

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Room 207, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
F202. University of Utah Faculty and Student Reading
Lance Olsen, Lynn Kilpatrick

Saturday, April 10

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Rooms 210 and 212, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
S197. BOA Editions: American Reader Fiction Series
Jessica Treat

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM Rooms 301 and 302, Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
S115. Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy… Seriously
Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones

And, please drop by our table at the bookfair! See you there.

• ::: February 11, 2009, 6:00 p.m.: Chiasmus Reading & Reception with Cris Mazza, Davis, Schneiderman, Gina Frangello, Stephen Graham Jones, & Lily Hoang, Barbara’s Bookstore, 1218 S, Halstead Street, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 12, 2009, 1:30 PM: The New-Media Novel: The Intersection of Film, E-Lit & Story with Steve Tomasula, Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, Tal Halpern and John Cayley, AWP Conference, Chicago Hilton, Private Dining Room , Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m..: FC2 Fiction Reading & Reception with R.M. Berry, Alexandra Chasin, Christopher Grimes, Stephen Graham Jones, Affinity Konar, Lance Olsen, Vanessa Place, Matthew Roberson, Steve Tomasula, & Magdalena Zurawski, Curtiss Hall, 10th floor of the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 13, 2009, 3:00 PM Passing: The Writer’s Skin & the Authentic Self with Jessica Treat, Rilla Askew, Ely Shipley, Tom Williams, Rob Stephenson. AWP Conference, Chicago Hilton, Continental B, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 13, 2009, 3:00 p.m..: “[Docu]fiction,” with Cris Mazza, Ted Pelton, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and Charles Blackstone, AWP Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 13, 2009, 8:00 p.m..: Fiction Reading with R. M. Berry, Eckhard Gerdes, A. D. Jameson, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, Yuriy Tarnawsky, & Lidia Yuknavitch, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 13, 2009, 12:00 p.m.: Reading/Conversation with Vanessa Place, SAIC, Joan Flasch Book Arts Collection, 37 S. Wabash Ave., 5th Floor, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 14, 2009, 9 a.m.: “Quantum Narratology: Towards a Transactional Interpretation,” with R. M. Berry, Lance Olsen, Vanessa Place, & Lidia Yuknavitch, AWP Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 14, 9:00 a.m.: “Truth or Consequences in Nonrealist Fiction: Which Are We Reading For?” with Ken Keegan, Kate Bernheimer, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, & Joyelle McSweeney, AWP Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

• ::: February 14, 2009, 3:00 PM:  &NOW: innovation/ululation for innovative writing with Steve Tomasula, Davis Schneiderman, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Christina Milletti, Martin Nakell, and Robert Archambeau, AWP Conference, Chicago Hilton, Joliet Room, Chicago, Illinois.

October 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m.: a fiction Reading by Donald Breckenridge (fiction editor of Brooklyn Rail), and FC2 authors Lance Olsen & Yuriy Tarnawsky, KGB, 85 East 4th Street, New York City, New York.

Debra Di Blasi published her novel, What the Body Requires in Amazon Kindle format, as a foray into digital-only publishing via Jaded Ibis Press, “sustainable literature for digital means.™ Forthcoming Jaded Ibis Press authors are Davis Schneiderman, Patricia Catto, and others to be announced.

Upcoming events:

2009: The Wreckage of Reason Tour - Mexico. Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women in the 21st Century anthology.San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
October 3, 2008: The Wreckage of Reason Tour - Reading at KGB Lit Bar, New York. Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women in the 21st Century anthology.New York, NY
November, 2008: San Diego, CA – Wreckage of Reason Reading at University of California at San Diego.
February 5, 2009: Buffalo, NY – Visiting Writer in The Write Thing Reading Series at Medaille College.