Reading December 9th at 7:30PM

Hello everyone,

Please come out on December 9th for the LAST Southern Writers Reading Series of the year!!

That’s right, you’re cordially invited to celebrate the new year 22 days early; you’re cordially invited to drag that friend of yours along who has never attended a fiction or poetry reading; you’re cordially invited to hear six talented authors share their innermost thoughts…..for free.

You’ll be dismayed through all of 2010 if you miss it.

Reading Info
date: Wednesday December 9th
time: 7:30PM
venue: Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street between Forsyth & Eldridge

Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer and educator. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School University. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she has received grants and residencies from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Louisiana ArtWorks. Crowned, her debut collection of poetry will be published by Sawyer House Press in January 2010.

E.J. Antonio is a 2009 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Cave Canem Foundation. Her work has been published in various Journals and magazines, most recently, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, and Mobius: The Poetry Magazine. Her work is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project. Her first chapbook, Every Child Knows, was published in the Fall of 2007 by the Premier Poets Chapbook Series, and she is one of the featured poets on the CD, Beauty Keeps Laying It’s Sharp Knife Against Me: Brant Lyon and Friends.

JW McCormack hails from two of the more preposterous townships in the Union (Las Vegas, Nevada and Knoxville, Tennessee) and lives in Brooklyn. A graduate of Bard College, he is senior editor at the fiction magazine Conjunctions and has worked as a book reviewer, literary archivist and as a fact checker for Harper’s and New York. Some Velvet Morning is his favorite song.

Lauren Ireland was raised in coastal Virginia and southern Maryland. Currently an editor of Lungfull! Magazine, she co-curates The Readings at Chrystie Street, a monthly poetry series, with Steve Roberts. Her poems have appeared in Bateau, Conduit, and jubilat, among many other magazines. She lives in Brooklyn.

Martin Rock is from the deep northern state of Florida, and is working towards his MFA in poetry at NYU. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mississippi Review Online, Tuesday; an Art Project, NANO fiction, At-Large Magazine, and Thirteenth Warrior Review. His collaborative chapbook, “Fish, You Bird,” which was written over the course of 5 years with his (Texan) friend Phillip D. Ischey, won the Pilot Books chapbook contest and will be published in the spring. He is Editor in Chief of Washington Square Review and co-curator of the Cornelia St. Graduate Poetry reading series. To relax on the weekends, he is translating a book of poems by the Japanese poet and musician Masato Tomobe.

Saeed Jones received his BA in English at Western Kentucky University where he was the arts editor for Rise Over Run Magazine and recipient of the 2008 Jim Wayne Miller Award for Poetry. He’s currently a MFA student at Rutgers University – Newark. His poetry has appeared in StorySouth, The Adirondack Review, Word Riot, and Pluck! among other publications.

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