From the Page to the Stage: Sacramento's Story Reading Event
The Sacramento Poetry Center is known for its Monday poetry readings, but sometimes we host special events on others days. One such event, a rapidly growing one, is Stories on Stage, which takes place on the last Friday of each month, hosted by poet Dorine Jennette. The event presents at least two fiction writers per session, but the stories are read by professional actors. The writers get to be part of the audience, listening to their stories being read. That has to feel good.
I look forward to this Friday's event.
Stories on Stage presents Zoe Keithley and Naomi Williams
Read by Cynthia Speakman and Bonnie Antonini
Friday, June 25 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street at Crossroads for the Arts
Guest Host: Dorine Jennette
Naomi Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was 6 years old. A recent graduate of the MA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis, Naomi's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and One Story. She's received a Pushcart Prize and Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories 2009. For the last five years, she's been working on a collection of linked short stories about the La Pérouse expedition, an 18th-century French voyage of exploration. She lives in Davis with her husband and two sons.
Zoe Keithey is the 2006 TallGrass winner in prose. Her stories have appeared in the North American Review, American Fiction, F3 and 7 and Dogwood. Her fiction won an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in prose and finalist awards from Zoetrope, American Fiction, and Hyphen. Her first novel, A Life For A Life and short story collection, Fourteen Faces of Love, are circulating. She leads monthly writing workshops and quarterly public prose readings in Sacramento, teaches privately, and edits.
Cynthia Mitchell Speakman has been performing on Sacramento stages since 1994 when she joined Ed Claudio's Actor's Workshop. She performs with Story Voices [http://storyvoices.com/], four spoken word artists that perform for benefits across the country, inspiring people to take on their lives with passion. Her 17 year old son keeps her thinking young and she thanks him for being an inspiration to her. She will read Naomi Williams' "Sunday School."
Bonnie Antonini returned to acting five years ago after taking a long hiatus to raise her children. She hit the ground running and has been in 20 stage plays, numerous commercials, TV shows, and industrials. She also is a poet and has had three of her poems published in the Sacramento News and Review. She will read Zoe Keithley's "A Little Foreign Travel."
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 30th
Heather Brittain Bergstrom and Kathryn Williams
August 27th
Becky Hagenston, author of the story collections A Graham of Mars and Strange Weather and David Hagerty
September 24th
Stacia Saint Owens, author of the story collection Auto-Erotica
I look forward to this Friday's event.
Stories on Stage presents Zoe Keithley and Naomi Williams
Read by Cynthia Speakman and Bonnie Antonini
Friday, June 25 at 7:30 PM
1719 25th Street at Crossroads for the Arts
Guest Host: Dorine Jennette
Naomi Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was 6 years old. A recent graduate of the MA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis, Naomi's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, and One Story. She's received a Pushcart Prize and Honorable Mention in Best American Short Stories 2009. For the last five years, she's been working on a collection of linked short stories about the La Pérouse expedition, an 18th-century French voyage of exploration. She lives in Davis with her husband and two sons.
Zoe Keithey is the 2006 TallGrass winner in prose. Her stories have appeared in the North American Review, American Fiction, F3 and 7 and Dogwood. Her fiction won an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in prose and finalist awards from Zoetrope, American Fiction, and Hyphen. Her first novel, A Life For A Life and short story collection, Fourteen Faces of Love, are circulating. She leads monthly writing workshops and quarterly public prose readings in Sacramento, teaches privately, and edits.
Cynthia Mitchell Speakman has been performing on Sacramento stages since 1994 when she joined Ed Claudio's Actor's Workshop. She performs with Story Voices [http://storyvoices.com/], four spoken word artists that perform for benefits across the country, inspiring people to take on their lives with passion. Her 17 year old son keeps her thinking young and she thanks him for being an inspiration to her. She will read Naomi Williams' "Sunday School."
Bonnie Antonini returned to acting five years ago after taking a long hiatus to raise her children. She hit the ground running and has been in 20 stage plays, numerous commercials, TV shows, and industrials. She also is a poet and has had three of her poems published in the Sacramento News and Review. She will read Zoe Keithley's "A Little Foreign Travel."
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 30th
Heather Brittain Bergstrom and Kathryn Williams
August 27th
Becky Hagenston, author of the story collections A Graham of Mars and Strange Weather and David Hagerty
September 24th
Stacia Saint Owens, author of the story collection Auto-Erotica
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