Waterline Writers 1st Reading Event This Sunday at WSS

Waterline Writers will make its first big splash (sorry!) with readings at Water Street Studios, 160 S. Water St. Batavia, IL.

Starting Sunday night, Feb. 19 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and continuing on the Third Sunday of each month, writers will read excerpts from their own work.

We’ll include fiction (novels, short stories, creative non-fiction), poetry, plays, lyrics, spoken word, experimental work, multi-media work, storytellers, stand-up comedy, etc.

We are committed to providing a place where talented published and not-yet-published writers can share their work as well as meet and support other writers.

We hope and suspect that, just as Water Street Studios drew forth scores of local artists with transcendent talents, Waterline Writers will become the meeting place and synergistic center for gifted local writers.

Here's a list of some of the readers:

DC Brod

D.C. (Deb) Brod is the award-winning author of eight novels and a number of short stories. Her novels include a private detective series featuring Quint McCauley, Heartstone, a contemporary Arthurian suspense novel and, most recently, Getting Sassy and Getting Lucky, which are capers in the Getting Even series. She lives in St. Charles.

Cecelia Downs

Cecelia Downs has published stories in literary journals such as Green Mountains Review and Other Voices.  She has received several writer's residencies from the Ragdale Foundation and is currently at work on a novel set during the Irish Famine.

Richard Holinger

Richard Holinger's poetry, fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Boulevard, ACM, WHR, Flyway, Witness, North American Review and elsewhere. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and lives in the Fox Valley, west of Chicago, from where he writes a newspaper column, facilitates a writing workshop, and teaches English at Marmion Academy. A collection of innovative flash fiction was recently published by Kattywompus Press. Degrees include a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from UIC.

Donna Latham

Donna Latham's an award-winning playwright and author who has made up stuff, written it down, and acted it out forever. Her plays have been produced coast to coast. Recently, Proverbs went up at Unity Stage Players in Queens, Coyote's Moon was part of La MaMa 50 Block Party at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in Manhattan, and Three by the Sea world-premiered at New York's Looking Glass Theatre. Locally, Geneva Underground Playhouse produced Be Bold, Be Bold; its production of Three by the Sea opens this fall. Got ghosts? Donna authored Ghosts of the Fox River Valley and Ghosts of Interstate 90. In books for kids, Bridges and Tunnels: Explore Feats of Engineering launches this spring, and Backyard Biology this fall.

Katie Phillips

Katie Phillips grew up in Maryland & Colorado and lived in Montana before moving to a suburb of Chicago. She has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Iowa and feels fortunate that she can walk to work with her dog, Sasha. Her poems have been published in the Cider Press Review, the Raintown Review, After Hours, and elsewhere. She has studied with Eamon Grennan and Joyce Sutphen. In February 2011, the title poem to her first chapbook, "Driving Montana, Alone," was read by Garrison Keillor on NPR's The Writers' Almanac.

Frank Rutledge

Frank Rutledge is a Fox Valley author of poetry and short fiction. He is the current facilitator of the Batavia Library Writers Workshop. He helped develop and organize the three years of the "Author's Festival" held also at the Batavia library. In April 2011, he held a poetry workshop for Poetry Month at the same library.  He hosts the summer WorD-PlaY Open Mike at Grahams 318 in Geneva, Il. and performs his spoken word at various open mikes in the area. His is a member of Writers Anonymous, an improvisation writing group and the St. Charles Writers Group, belonging to both for more than ten years. His first self published chapbook of poems, "Clothed in August Skin" was a success. He is currently preparing his newest poetry manuscript "Paper Maps" for future publication.