Featured readings by Jason Thornberry, Cindy Veach & Erin Byrne. Three minute open mic opportunites at event.
Jason M. Thornberry is a disabled writer whose recent work appears in World Literature Review, Maryland Literary Review, Welter, Folio Literary Journal, Afterimages, Los Angeles Review of Books, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Maudlin House, and Mikrokosmos Literary Journal. He was nominated in 2023 and 2024 for Best of the Net, and his first novel is under consideration with several publishing houses. Jason teaches creative nonfiction at Seattle Pacific University.
Cindy Veach is the author of Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press), Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist, and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read.’ Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review and Poet Lore among others. She is the recipient of the Philip Booth Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize. Cindy is co-poetry editor of Mom Egg Review (MER).
Erin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco, and writer of The Storykeeper film. She has written dozens of essays that appear in The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Hidden Compass, The Smart Set, and many other publications. Awards for her work include a 2021-22 Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, the 2020 Grand Prize Solas Award for Travel Story of the Year, three Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and an Accolade Award for film. Erin is host of the LitWings event series in the Bay Area and Paris, which features writers, photographers, and filmmakers. In the past, she has taught writing at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, The American Library in Paris, Book Passage bookstore, and on Deep Travel trips, and is travel writing and photography curator for The Creative Process Exhibition. She recently completed her first novel, Illuminations. www.erinbyrnewriter.com
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