BURIAL DAY BOOKS
PRESENTS
AN EVENING OF CHILLING CAMPFIRE STORIES
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2012 (YES, FRIDAY THE 13TH)
HOSTED BY:
UNCHARTED BOOKS
2630 N. MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO, IL AT 7PM
THIS IS A FREE EVENT. BYOB.We are still searching for readers. Email [email protected], subject line “Campfire Stories,” with the work you would like to read.
Did you ever sit around the campfire as a child, or even on a hot summer night with friends reciting chilling ghost stories, or true haunted tales? Some readers will read new, original suspenseful short stories, while others will read a favorite short scary story, and some can even tell the tale of their true haunted experience.
We are pleased to announce the line-up of our readers for Friday.
Gibson Culbreth is a girl named after a guitar. She is the editor-in-chief of a small up and coming zine called “I Feel Pretty” and her works have appeared in the Molotov Cocktail, WritingRaw and Down in the Dirt Magazine. When not working on her novel she spends her time slinging coffee and playing with puppies. Recently she spent six weeks in Prague, and she thought that was pretty damn cool. You can contact her at [email protected].
L.A. Fields is the author of Maladaptation, a novel published by Queer Mojo/Rebel Satori Press in 2009. Her work has been featured in Wilde Stories 2009, Best Gay Romance 2010 and the Bram Stoker Award winning Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet. She lives in Chicago, IL.
M. N. Hanson is a postmodern deconstructivist, an aspiring astronaut, a proponent of the Oxford comma, and a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in writing. Please visit http://mnhanson.com/ to complain.
Cynthia (cina) Pelayo grew up in a haunted house in the northwest side of Chicago. She holds a BA, an MS, an MFA, and for good measure is a PhD candidate. By day she works as a marketing researcher. By night she’s a horror writer. She is the Publisher/Gravedigger of Burial Day Books (burialday.com). Her short story collection LOTERIA and her first novel SANTA MUERTE will be available this year, sometime.
Cortney Philip writes fucked up fairy tales for grown-ups who aren’t.
Jordan Scrivner was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He majored in English at the University of Utah and received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works as a sex defender at The Pleasure Chest Chicago. jordanscrivner.wordpress.com
J. Weintraub’s has been publishing for ever thirty-five years. His fiction, essays, poetry, and translations have appeared in a variety of literary reviews and periodicals, from The Massachusetts Review to the Chicago Reader, from Gastronomica to Modern Philology. Many of his pieces have been anthologized, and he is a recipient of Illinois Arts Council Awards for fiction and creative nonfiction. He’s been an Around-the-Coyote poet, a StoneSong poet, and has had one-act plays produced by the Theatre-Studio in New York City, the Summer Place Theatre in Naperville, and Theatre One in Middleboro, MA, and at Chicago Dramatists. He’s also been a featured author at the Twilight Tales reading series, at “March Madness, Murder & Mayhem” for the Uptown Writers Space as well as with the TallGrass Writers Guild at the Bourgeois Pig and for Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf.
Mackenzie Wilson’s work has appeared in the Logan Square Literary Review. She write flash fiction and a little bit of poetry. Her tumbler, ChicagObservations (http://chicago-observations.tumblr.com/) contains her writings about weird things she sees around the city.