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Everybody go to Pilcrow
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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.
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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
New blurb
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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
Blurby
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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
Dire Reading Series
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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
Happy Turkey Day to me
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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.
P.E.E.L. Reading Series
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by Jackie Corley
in Writing
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.
Oh, benevolent dictator!
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This WHYY radio interview with Karl “King” Wenclas of the Underground Literary Alliance and Carla Spataro of Philadelphia Stories in really good:
[Click for Real Media file] (via Timmy Waldron, via Philadelphia Stories)
(Judging by the commercials, it sounds like it’s from a month ago.)
King is in top form in the interview, so it’s well worth a listen. I don’t know Carla Spataro but she held up well against Wenclas and made some excellent points.
I like the ULA. I don’t agree with them all the time, but I like them. I did a ULA reading a couple years ago in this anarchist bar in Philly and it was probably the best lit event I’ve ever been to. All the readers varied in their writing and performance styles and that’s not something you see at most readings. Like, there were slam poets mixed in with short story writers, guys who were so sucked into their words that they spat and shouted their lines and guys who read in a straight monotone. There were just all different types of people. It felt very spontaneous, a little bit lunatic asylum. It was great.
Visit the Pequin, love the Pequin
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by Jackie Corley
in Writing
The Better Non Sequitur folks (aka Steve Coy) have a new project: Pequin.org
It’s a mixed media site with a spiffy design. I’ll have a flash fiction piece coming out there in the next month or so. Soon-to-be-WRP-author David Gianatasio has a story there titled, “The Last Word.”
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