2019 10th Anniversary Season
(lineup subject to change)
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. – readings begin at 7:30 p.m.
$10 donation is suggested
all events will be at the Auditorium at CLARA (the E Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) 1425 24th Street, Sacramento
Friday, January 25
Novelist Tom Barbash with Sacramento writer Shelley Blanton-Stroud with readings from Tom’s new bestselling novel The Dakota Winters and Shelley’s short story “Attention Must Be Paid.”
Readers: Ian Hopps and Jessica Laskey
Friday, February 22
National Book Award finalist Karen E Bender with a reading from her new short story collection The New Order. With Sacramento writer Valerie Fioravanti (Garbage Night at the Opera) and a reading from her new short story collection.
Friday, March 22
Bay Area novelist Sarah Stone with a reading from her new novel Hungry Ghost Theatre, with Sacramento writer and playwright Tim Foley and his short story “Nineteen-Sixty-Five Ford Falcon.
Friday, April 26
Poet and novelist Devi Laskar with a reading from her debut novel The Atlas of Reds and Blues. With poet, novelist, and UCLA professor Fred D’Aguiar and a reading from his novel Children of Paradise.
Friday, May 31
Sharma Shields is back with a reading from her new novel The Cassandra, a retelling of the myth of the seer Cassandra as a young woman with extraordinary powers who works at a top secret research facility during WWII and is tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Sharma previously appeared at Stories on Stage Sacramento in 2015 for a reading from her delightful novel The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac.
Friday, June 28
Jenn Alandy Trahan, former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, with a reading from her short story “They Told Us Not To Say This,” published in Harper’s in October 2018.
Friday,, July 26
TBA
Friday, August 30
TBA
Friday, September 27
The Los Rios Writers – readings selected from the literary journals of the four Los Rios Community College creative writing programs – Sacramento City College (Susurrus,) American River College (American River Review,) Cosumnes River College (Cosumnes River Journal,) and Folsom Lake College (The Machine.)
Friday, October 25
TBA
