Quiet Lightning presents a literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated through a blind process by Anna Allen and Katie Tandy into a one-night only performance featuring:

Steven Hill » Rebeca L. Lucret » Linda Michel-Cassidy » Kelley Tom » Leah Mueller » Siamak Vossoughi » Glenn Ingersoll » Wendy M. Thompson » Brian Waksmunski » Yerrie Choo | Amy Choudhury Martin » Diana Donovan » Allison Landa » Lita Kurth » Trevor Ruth » Vivien Bui

The show is published as sPARKLE + bLINK 113, featuring cover art by Kacy Jung!

Please note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content), but RSVP is required.

ABOUT FREE SHOWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKS

If you’d like to purchase the book you can do that for $10 + shipping, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 113 + a surprise back issue.

A note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds, donations or not, go toward local artists and independent businesses.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Anna Allen, from Stockton, California, is a performance poet. She’s been published in Sparkle and Blink, little death lit, Chronicling Lit and others. Her poetry reflects the darkness and light that has been part of her life from the beginning.

Katie Tandy is a memoirist, editor, playwright, and digital media entrepreneur. She is a human dedicated to moving the needle towards justice. The former cofounding editor of three feminist online publications – Ravishly, The Establishment and PULP – Katie is a veteran alt-weekly journalist, with work appearing in SFWeekly, East Bay Express, The Arc, KQED, Dialogue magazine, Feministing, HuffPo, Oakland magazine, Time Out New York magazine and a whole host of literary journals including Quiet Lightning, Writing Without Walls, and The Write Club. She’s written on everything from architecture and amnesia to fashion, food and falconry; she is particularly invested in the intersection of art and social justice and the human body as a playground of politics. Katie recently joined Public Rights Project as a managing editor and launched an in-house publication — THE PUBLIC — on workers’ rights. She is the recipient of the Turkeyland Cove Foundation and Hambidge writing residencies, and a 2021 finalist with Blackacre.  In her spare time she fronts the rock band The Shattucks, devours paperbacks, and cooks a damn fine spaghetti sauce. She lives and writes in Oakland, California.

Can't make it? The show will be archived in video and full text, like all of our previous readings! Find them, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more, @ Litseen.

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Featured image by Kacy Jung, cover artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 113