Writers Event in NY This Saturday at Bowery Poetry Club

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Hear 5 women essayists and participate in contest.


Join Creative Evolution this Saturyday for a literary event...



Paper Dolls: Live Lady Essayists

Saturday, February 16, 2008

12-2 PM

The Bowery Poetry Club (www.bowerypoetry.com)

308 Bowery, NYC

$10 General Admission

Cash Bar – Coffee/Refreshments Available – All Ages Welcome




Paper Dolls: Live Lady Essayists will present five female essayists reading from their works.



Featured readers include:



-- Susan Henderson of LitPark (www.litpark.com), two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and author of the forthcoming novel RISE (St. Martins Press)



-- Kim Brittingham, recently interviewed by Alison Stewart on NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18328924) about her essay “Fat is Contagious” as published by Fresh Yarn (http://www.freshyarn.com/42/essays/brittingham_fat1.htm), and regular blogger for The Memoirists Collective (www.myspace.com/thememoiristscollective)



-- Heather Maidat, screenwriter, contributor to The Huffington Post, GirlComic and more, and creator of the blog “New Yorker in L.A.” (www.newyorkerinla.blogspot.com)



-- Carol J. Clouse, writer, journalist, essayist and graduate of Sarah Lawrence College



-- Shoaleh Teymour, Iranian-American writer and belly dance instructor


AND there’s a happenin’ contest, too!



Audience members can vie for paper prize packages by writing on-the-spot “flash essays”! Winning audience essays will be read at the event. To participate, be there at noon SHARP!

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