
"WordTheatre is a great, freewheeling, passionately engaged interpreter of contemporary short fiction. Whereas other such enterprises are content to cherry pick a few classics in a predictable setting, WordTheatre finds work that can bring about great performances in its constituency of first-rate performers, always in search of the ineffable and the uncanny that are at the heart of the very best in world literature. Their ambition is for the new, the challenging, and the emotionally rich. In my own case, I have never heard such wonderful and illuminated performances of my own work." - Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
National Small Press Month March 2008: Tales of Sex and Death
March 30, 2008 @ Canal Club
Rae Dawn Chong |
Gary Dourdan |
Graham Hamilton |
Tess Harper |
Sarah Maclay |
Nina Revoyr |
WordTheatre celebrates Small Press Month at Canal Club in Venice with short story and poetry readings by*:
Small Press Month, which takes place every year in March,
is a Nationwide Celebration of the strong, independent, diverse voices found in the pages brought to us by the country's great Literary Magazines and Small Book Publishers. WordTheatre is honored to be a part of this grass roots effort to raise awareness about the pressing need for
broader venues of literary expression, as large, international
conglomerates are taking fewer risks and publishing for a narrowing
perspective. We believe the Small Presses are keeping great literature alive! For more information visit, www.smallpressmonth.org