March 20th Readings

The March installment of the 510 Readings was a blast! But you knew that, because you were there:




Baltimore author/poet Ashlie Kauffman began the evening by reading an excerpt of her novel-in-progress.




Jamie Iredell, who visited from Atlanta, followed, reading from Prose. Poems. A Novel (Orange Alert Pres), an innovative hybride of the aforementioned, and also a bit from his forthcoming book, The Book of Freaks (Future Tense).



After the break, Baltimore's own Todd Whaley read a story about schizophrenia and riddles entitled "What Am I?"



Finally, Molly Gaudry, down from Philadelphia, closed the show by reading from her prose-poem novella, We Take Me Apart, a Stein-like play of images and words.



Come visit us April 17th at the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Library during the CityLit Festival, where we'll welcome Sam Lipsyte, Dawn Raffel, Geoffrey Becker, and Andy Devine.

March 20th Readings: Molly Gaudry, James Iredell, Todd Whaley, and Ashlie Kauffman

Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She is the curator of Walking Man Gallery, the editor of Willows Wept Press and Willows Wept Review, co-founding editor of Twelve Stories, and associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. She contributes to the arts and culture site Big Other and writes reviews for East&West Magazine. Find her online at http://mollygaudry.blogspot.com.



Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose. Poems. a Novel. (2009), and The Book of Freaks, which is forthcoming in late 2010. His writing has also appeared in JMWW, The Literary Review, Lamination Colony, and in many other literary magazines. He lives in Atlanta with his wife.










Ashlie Kauffman is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor at the Community College of Baltimore County. She has a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from New York University and a Master of Arts in fiction from the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs. Her writing recognitions include a Semi-Finalist nomination for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship for Younger Poets and an Independent Artist Award in fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council. She writes book reviews for jmww and interviews poets for jmwwblog.


A 2008 Finalist for The Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Todd Whaley lives in Baltimore and works for an international architectural firm in Washington, DC. He has stories in a number of journals, including Berkeley Fiction Review, Louisiana Literature, The Baltimore Review, Fourth River, Pisgah Review, Soundings East, Quercus Review, REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Licking River Review, Compass Rose, and others. He has been honored as a finalist in Glimmer Train Stories and nominated to the Best New American Voices.

Thanks for joining us for the February 20th reading, an evening of fiction and nonfiction.



Meghan Kenny, Ron Tanner, Jane Satterfield, and Kevin Sampsell were our featured readers:


Meghan Kenny began the evening reading from her novel in progress.



Ron Tanner read from his prize-winning chapbook, Wheels, available soon from Gertrude Press.



After the intermission, Jane Satterfield read from her acclaimed memoir, Daughters of Empire, available from Demeter Press.



Finally, Future Tense Press publisher Kevin Sampsell made the trip from Portland to read from his newly released memoir, A Common Pornography, from Harper Perennial.



Join us next month for Molly Gaudry, Jamie Iredell, Ashlie Kauffman, and Todd Whaley!

Season 3, Episode 2, Feb. 20th: Kevin Sampsell, Jane Satterfield, Ron Tanner, Meghan Kenny

Kevin Sampsell has been the publisher of the micro-press, Future Tense Books, since 1990. He has also worked at Powell's Books since 1997, as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His writing has appeared in various newspapers, web sites, and literary journals. His books include Creamy Bullets, Portland Noir (as editor), and the new memoir, A Common Pornography. His website is www.kevinsampsell.com.

Jane Satterfield is the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009) and two books of poetry: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, three Maryland State Arts Council grants in poetry, and the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Gold Medal for the Essay. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, poet Ned Balbo, and her daughter Catherine, and teaches at Loyola University.

Ron Tanner has published stories widely in such magazines as The Iowa Review, New Letters, and West Branch. His awards for short fiction include a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. His collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature and is now in its second printing. His story “Wheels” won the 2009 Gertrude Press award and has been published as a chapbook. Ron teaches writing at Loyola University in Baltimore. Currently he is writing a book about his time in Micronesia.

Meghan Kenny teaches writing at Towson University and for Gotham Writers’ Workshop online. She was the 2008-2009 Tickner Writing Fellow at the Gilman School in Baltimore and a 2008 Peter Taylor Fellow at The Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in Sonora Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, Bound Off, The Kenyon Review, The Florida Review and has one forthcoming in Pleiades. She won the 2005 Iowa Review Award for fiction and received a Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College and her M.F.A. from Boise State University. She is working on her first novel.

January 16th Readings

You'll came back for our third season of the 510 Readings—yay! You were there, and you were there..



And Jane Delury was there, and she read an excerpt from her collection in progress:



And Rachel Sherman was there, and she read from her debut novel Living Room:



And Caryn Coyle was there, and she read her first-place entry in the 2009 Maryland Writers Conference Story Contest:



And James Magruder was also there. He read from his debut novel Sugarless.



Thanks for coming, and see you all next month, when we host Kevin Sampsell, Ron Tanner, Meghan Kenny, and Jane Satterfied!

January 16th Readings: Rachel Sherman, James Magruder, Jane Delury, Caryn Coyle

It's the first episode of Season 3--the same time, the same place, all new writers: Rachel Sherman, James Magruder, Jane Delury, Caryn Coyle.

Rachel Sherman is the author of the The First Hurt (Open City Books, 2006), a book of short stories, and Living Room (Open City Books, 2009), a novel. The First Hurt was a finalist for The 2006 International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, short-listed for the 2007 Story Award, and was chosen as one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Nerve, Post Road, Conjunctions, n+1, Story Quarterly, and Fence among other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and Columbia University.

James Magruder’s short fiction has appeared or will appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Bloom, Subtropics, The Normal School, and the anthology Boy Crazy. His adaptations of Marivaux, Molière, Lesage, Labiche, Gozzi, and Dickens have been produced on and Off-Broadway, across the country, and in Japan and Germany. His Three French Comedies (Yale University Press) was named an “Outstanding Literary Translation of the Year” by the American Literary Translators Association. His writing has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council, the New Harmony Project, The MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Thornton Wilder Fellow, the Ucross Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. He teaches translation and adaptation at the Yale School of Drama and production dramaturgy at Swarthmore College. The University of Wisconsin Press published his debut novel, Sugarless, in October of 2009.

Jane Delury’s fiction has appeared in Narrative, The Southern Review and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. She has an essay forthcoming in the anthology, Writers on the Words They Love and Loathe. She is a recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she is on the faculty of the University of Baltimore’s MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program.

After three decades of writing press releases, speeches and newsletters to pay the bills, Caryn Coyle tried fiction. Her ninth story was recently accepted for publication in Gargoyle, and her stories have been published in jmww, Loch Raven Review, The Santa Fe Writer's Project Literary Journal, and a few others. She won the 2009 Maryland Writers Association Short Fiction Contest. A graduate of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University, she reviews restaurants for the website, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon.

November reading photos

In case you missed our fabulous double feature in November:



Well, it looks like not many of you did. From the November 14th reading.



Kathy Flann reads from a novel in progress.



Glenn Moomau reads from a novel just completed.



Robin Hemley reads from his latest book, Do Over!



Madison Smartt Bell reads from the newly released Devil's Dream.



Another fine turnout for the November 21st reading.


Josh Weil reads from The New Valley



Laura van den Berg reads from What the World Will Look Like When the Water Leaves Us



Geoffrey Becker reads from his 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection, Black Elvis