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Our first event of the 2020 season – don’t miss it!
January 31, 2020
Pam Houston
Author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Dorothy Rice
Author of Gray is the New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance
Performances by Gay Cooper and Caro Marks
At the Auditorium at CLARA, 1425 24th Street, Sacramento (on 24th between O and N Streets) Doors open at 7PM, Readings begin at 7:30.
a $10 donation is suggested.
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January 31, 2020
Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country (performed by Caro Marks)
Dorothy Rice, Gray is the New Black: A Memoir of Self-Acceptance (performed by Gay Cooper)
March 27, 2020
Tod Goldberg, Gangster Nation
Anita Felliceli, Chimerica
May 22, 2020
Jess Walter, We Live in Water
Joan Frank, Where You’re All Going
July 24, 2020
Debra Gwartney, I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Sands Hall, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology: A Memoir
September 25, 2020
Local college writers, to be announced.
October 23, 2020
Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs
Erika Mailman, Murderer’s Maid
PREVIOUS EVENTS:2019
January 25, 2019
Tom Barbash (The Dakota Winters) with Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Readings by Ian Hopps and Jessica Laskey
February 22, 2019
Karen E Bender (The New Order) with Valerie Fioravanti (Garbage Night at the Opera)
readings by Kelley Ogden and Tara Henry
March 22, 2019
Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theatre) with Tim Foley
readings by Katie Rubin and Matt Rives
April 26, 2019
Devi Lasker (The Atlas of Reds and Blues) and Fred D’Aguiar(Children of Paradise)
Readings by Bridggett Bess and Angel Rodriguez
May 31, 2019
Sharma Shields (The Cassandra) and Simeon Mills (The Obsoletes)
Readings by Carissa Meagher and Ian Hopps
June 28, 2019
Maggie Shen King (An Excess Male)
Scott Alumbaugh “San Andreas Fault”
readings by Matthew Hanjoong and Ethan Ireland
July 26, 2019
Janet Fitch (The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes Of a Lost Cathedral)
in conversation with Beth Ruyak, host of Capital Public Radio’s “Insight”
With readings by Carissa Meagher
(this is a special event in collaboration with The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. )
August 30, 2019
Emerging Writers: Stars of the Future
Jenn Alandy Trahan
Diane Kallas
Readings by Ruby Sketchley and Krystle Piamonte
September 27, 2019
The Los Rios Writers: selections from the literary magazines published by the four campuses of the Los Rios Community Colleges.
Writers include Michelle Padilla, Alma Rocio Peguero, Seth Katz and Andrey Shamshurin
Readings by Eric Baldwin and Katherine Benitez
October 25, 2019
A night of non-fiction with Christine O’Brien, (Crave, A Memoir of Food and Longing) and Jen Palmares Meadows
Readings by Justine Lopez and Kelley Ogden