Why There Words: A Special Celebration: WTAW Press Book Launch

Join Why There Are Words on October 11, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration when our WTAW Press authors Sarah Stone and Angela Mitchell will read from their brand new books, as part of a spectacular line up of authors, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Lisa Locascio, Louise Marburg, Natalie Singer, and Terese Svoboda.

Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. The celebration will include cake, delectable treats, and adult beverages. For more details, including the authors’ full bios, see the website, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press, of which the reading series is a program, visit www.wtawpress.org.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, July 2018). Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Huffington Post, among others. She currently teaches writing to immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing artists into public schools. www.ingridrojascontreras.com

Lisa Locascio is the author of Open Me, a debut novel published by Grove Atlantic (August 2018). Her work has appeared in many fine journals. She is co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7LA, as well as of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California (Outpost 19, 2017). www.lisalocascio.com

Louise Marburg is the author of the award-winning The Truth About Me: Stories (WTAW Press, 2017). Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, Chicago Quarterly Review, and many other fine journals. She lives in New York City with her husband, the artist Charles Marburg. louisemarburg.com

Angela Mitchell is the author of Unnatural Habitats, her debut collection of stories from WTAW Press (October 2018). Her award-winning stories have appeared in Colorado Review, New South, Carve, and other journals. Her story, “Animal Lovers,” was awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and was given special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXV. An eighth generation native of southern Missouri, she maintains a small farm on her family’s land, and resides in St. Louis with her husband and sons. angela-mitchell.com

Natalie Singer is the author of the memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation (Hawthorne Books, March 2018). Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, Proximity, and the 2015 anthology Love and Profanity (Switch Press, 2015), among others. California Calling was first runner-up for the Red Hen Press nonfiction prize and a finalist for the Autumn House Press nonfiction prize. She lives in Seattle with her family. nataliesingerwrites.com

Sarah Stone is the author of Hungry Ghost Theater: A Novel, published by WTAW Press (October 2018). Her novel The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday, 2002) has been taught in courses on literature, ethics, and the rhetoric of human rights. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, and The Believer, among other places. She teaches creative writing for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Stanford Continuing Studies. www.sarahstoneauthor.com

Terese Svoboda is the author of 18 books, including seven books of poetry. Among her recent works are Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner Press, Inc., 2016) and Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear Publishing, 2016). Her collection of stories, Great American Desert will be published in 2019. Her visit to the Bay Area by is made possible in part by Headlands Center for the Arts. teresesvoboda.com

Why There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S., with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333, located at 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press, www.wtawpress.org. For more information visit www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.