510 Reading Series
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Minás Gallery
815 W. 36th St.
Hampden (Baltimore), Maryland
5 p.m.
Readers: Larry Doyle, Jackie Corley and Linda Franklin
The 510 Reading Series is hosted by Michael Kimball (author of Dear Everybody) and Jen Michalski (author of Close Encounters).
I did a super-short story and an interview for Nick Ostdick’s site. It was a lot of fun.
Check it out.
Nick edits RAGAD, a literary broadside and online magazine.
“Sharp, bold, and deeply affecting, Jackie Corley’s stories are like poetry made from the gritty stuff of hard-scrabble life. Dead garden snakes and forgotten video games, gravestone statues that seem to dance in the night: in Corley’s able hands, the mundane, even the ugly, are transformed. The young men and women who struggle through her slim, piercing collection, stay with you long after you’ve finished reading; tough-talking and scarred, tattooed and tender, they search Corley’s dirty, sparkling New Jersey streets for something always just out of reach.
“A fiercely original debut. Corley is a talent to watch.”
-Scott Snyder, author of Voodoo Heart
The Pilcrow Lit Fest takes over Chicago from May 22 - May 25. I haven’t been this excited for a lit festival since the 215 Festival, circa 2003.
I think Amy Guth is some sorta marketing genius (in addition to being a fantastic writer). The list of attendees is a who’s-who of the small press world. Pilcrow is probably going to grow up into some mega festival in years to come, so I decided I have to be there when it all goes down in ‘08. (I’m going to be on a couple panels at Pilcrow, so drop by if you’re in Chicago.)
There are so many writers and publishers I can’t wait to meet. A lot of us know each other through email, Facebook, web sites or whatever but haven’t gotten a chance to meet face to face yet. I’m really looking forward to that.
Donate to Pilcrow:
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While in Chicago, I’m going to be doing a reading with Kevin Sampsell (Future Tense Publishing) and James Stegall (So New Publishing) at Quimby’s. Check it out.
Sampsell, Stegall & Corley Read at Quimby’s
We’re not just publishers. We actually write stuff too.
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Quimby’s Bookstore
Street: 1854 W. North Ave.
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Ian Spiegelman gave me an awesome blurb for my forthcoming short story collection, The Suburban Swindle (So New Media):
“Finally a 20-something author who is neither precious nor coddled. Finally a young writer who writes about life as it actually is instead of some trust fund prick’s fantasy of America. Jackie Corley is almost completely alone among the new set of writers in that she is actually telling stories about real humans. And she is telling them well, with the kind of immediacy that most young writers have had beaten out of them in MFA factories. Corley is original and unforgiving. I cannot say enough about Jackie Corley. She doesn’t flinch. Read this book.”
-Ian Spiegelman, author Welcome to Yesterday and Everyone’s Burning
Kevin Sampsell gave me a great blurb for my short story collection:
“I am tempted to compare Jackie Corley’s writing to a strong cup of coffee. It wakes you up, it gets you addicted, and sometimes it’s burning hot. Or I could say it’s like whiskey–it’s strong, it blurs your vision, and gives you the guts to face the hard truths and bitter pains of life. But forget about those liquid comparisons, because Corley’s work is solid! The Suburban Swindle unleashes a new, bold, American voice that you’d be foolish to ignore.”
–Kevin Sampsell, author of Creamy Bullets
I’ll be reading in Massachusetts next month:
Timothy Gager’s Dire Literary Series
THE OUT OF THE BLUE ART GALLERY
106 PROSPECT STREET,
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS5, 15 minute open mic slots at 8 p.m., sign-up at 7 p.m. followed by features
Dire #82 January 4, 2008
Rusty Barnes, Jackie Corley and poet Harris Gardner
It looks like So New Media will be putting out a collection of my stuff in the spring. It’ll be called ‘The Suburban Swindle‘ after a story I wrote a few years ago. I still like that title. The collection will have short stories and a couple novel excerpts.
Still working out the details, and I have to edit and send off the complete manuscript to SNM publisher James Stegall, but I’m pretty excited about this. Should be fun.
I’m going to be reading at the P.E.E.L. Reading Series next week with
Todd Colby, Samantha Topol, Filip Noterdaeme and Dawn Knopf:
Stain Bar
766 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, November 8
7:30 p.m.
More info on the mega-hot P.E.E.L. Flyer (no, the map’s not real)
I’ll be reading an excerpt from the new manuscript I’m working on.
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