Literary Events (Page 5)

Crossing Boundaries: A Prose Mash-up

For Prose Café’s penultimate event of the season, we’re showcasing some of the many different flavors the written word has to offer, from crackling dialogue by award-winning playwrights to multilayered flash fiction, and even a dreamy song.

Tom Coash is an American playwright, whose work has been produced worldwide, winning numerous playwriting awards, including the National Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award, the Clauder Competition, and an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award. Tom currently teaches scriptwriting at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Writing Program, and is offering a Character Development Workshop this year at the San Miguel Writers Conference.

Andrew Buckley is the author of the popular Hair in All the Wrong Places series for middle-grade readers, as well as a traditionally published author of enjoyable fiction for all ages. As an ex-pat Brit living in Canada, Andrew is a passionate nerd, movie-lover, comic book geek, public speaker, and podcaster, who dances a mean cha-cha. He’s also the co-founder and instructor at Wordsmith Academy, an online writing school and is offering two fiction writing workshops this season at the San Miguel Writers Conference.

Nina Ki is a Queerean (Queer + Korean) American playwright with a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Nina’s plays have been presented nationwide, including with the MCC Theater, Queens Theatre, Brave New World Repertory, The Classical Theater of Harlem, The Living Room Theater, and many more. Her play “Moon Bear” was given special consideration for the Relentless Award, and her play “Taemong (Birth Dream)” was a finalist for the Van Lier Fellowship. She is an inaugural member of The Parsnip Ship’s Radio Roots Writer’s Group.

A Boston Native, comedian Mary Kennedy headlines throughout the United States, and appears regularly at Flappers Comedy Club, The Comedy Store and The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. She toured nationally with her original show, Mom’s Night Out and recently appeared in the LIVE version of Showtime’s Comedy Special, Funny Women of a Certain Age. Mary played the recurring character New Fiona on Season 7 of Shameless.

April Yee is a writer and literary translator published in Newsweek, Electric Literature, and Lunch Ticket. A Harvard and Tin House alumna, she reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to the UK, where she serves as fiction reader for TriQuarterly, regular contributor to the blog of Ploughshares, and mentor for the Refugee Journalism Project at University of the Arts London. She tweets @aprilyee.

Los-Angeles based artist Andy Motoi is a singer-songwriter, violinist, and producer, who combines dream-pop soundscapes with classical orchestrations. His newest singles “Another” and “The Fall” were self-produced and recorded at home, with additional tracking done by Mark Rains at Station House Studios. Andy’s cinematic stylings as a string arranger have become widely used in the LA music scene, and have been featured on dozens of advertisements and songs over the years.

Barbara Cole, Ph.D., taught management throughout China, and in Ecuador, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. Currently, Barbara is completing a memoir of those times as well as writing for various publications, including Still Point Arts Quarterly and Woods Reader. As a child, she thought she would meet everyone in the world. She remains focused on that goal.

Ria Talken has traveled around the world with a backpack twice, then had an over-the-cliff breakdown where she couldn’t even write her name. She now lives in San Miguel de Allende, with her husband, and thinks all things are possible. Ria has two blogs – ourprimeoflife.com  Expat Lifestyle and Travel and riatalkenwrites.com a companion to her memoirs in progress about living with mental illness.

The San Miguel Prose Café is an all-volunteer organization presenting local and visiting writers, both established and emerging. During our current season online, registration in advance is required. Suggested optional donation is $5 US, which goes to support the San Miguel Literary Sala.