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Emily Alta Hockaday is author of Ophelia: A Botanist's Guide, What We Love & Will Not Give Up, and Starting a Life. Her work has appeared in the North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Amazon's Day One, and Newtown Literary, among other publications. She can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.
Please join Emily and all our world-class readers for Line Break #5, Saturday, March 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
CJ Bernstein wowed our audiences twice last year with a fairy tale steeped in the mythology of the world of The Monarch Papers, the interactive mystery/fantasy novel on which he was hard at work at the time.
Now, nearly a year later, The Monarch Papers is live and underway. It's a beautiful, complex, immersive project that defies description, so we'll just borrow this description from Mr. Bernstein himself:
The Monarch Papers is a completely free interactive literary experience. Part novel, part game, you are the missing piece in a puzzle that’s remained unsolved for a thousand years.
This is not just a story you read. You participate in it directly, through social media and blogs. You solve puzzles, you collaborate with other players, interact with the characters, and even influence the direction of the story. Best of all, it's not too late to start playing!
The Monarch Papers is 100% free, though if you feel so moved, you can support the project via Patreon. But whether you do or not, we hope you'll start reading and playing today. It's truly an experience like no other.
Line Break is here again! It's the eclectic monthly live literary magazine where poetry meets prose, fact meets fiction, and high-brow meets low-brow, at fabulous Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens.
At every show, live-lit veteran William Shunn brings a wild assortment of writers together on one stage. Don't miss our terrific March 4 lineup, featuring:No rules, no themes—just the best writers in town. Line Break—it's the start of a new thought. Don't miss it!
Line Break Reading Series
Saturday, March 4, 2017, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Hosted by William Shunn
Q.E.D. - A Place to Show & Tell
27-16 23rd Avenue
Astoria, NY 11105
Admission $7. Beer, wine and snacks available.
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/145378139303894/
Q.E.D. is a short trip from Manhattan on the N train to Queens. Just stay on all the way to Astoria–Ditmars Blvd at the end of the line, and walk a couple of blocks west on 23rd Avenue. (The W train does not run on weekends.)
We also need to send out big thanks to participants Jacob M. Appel, Sydney Beveridge, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Oscar Sanders and Sarah Riccio for their varied but uniformly excellent readings. And thanks to Q.E.D. for giving us the space and an opportunity to use it.
If you couldn't make it out on Saturday, please mark your calendar for Saturday, March 4, when we'll we back with our fifth issue, featuring poet Emily Alta Hockaday, fantasist Andrew Willett, and more!
So sign up for our mailing list and keep abreast of all the latest developments in the Line Break world. And finally, if you're interested in participating in a future Line Break, do send us a submission.
We look forward to seeing you again in March! Until then please check out all the terrific shows and events at Q.E.D. There is something amazing happening there literally every day.
Just a reminder that Line Break, the eclectic monthly live literary magazine, returns for 2017 this afternoon at Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens!
At every show, live-lit veteran William Shunn brings a wild assortment of writers together on one stage. Don't miss our terrific February lineup, featuring:
No rules, no themes—just the best writers in town. Line Break—it's the start of a new thought. Don't miss it!
Line Break Reading Series
Saturday, February 4, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Q.E.D.: A Place for Show & Tell
27-16 23rd Avenue
Astoria, NY 11105
Admission $7. Beer, wine and snacks available.
More info and tickets:
https://qedastoria.com/products/line-break-3
https://www.facebook.com/events/730843940423083/
Q.E.D. is a short trip from Manhattan on the N train to Queens. Just stay on all the way to Astoria–Ditmars Blvd at the end of the line, and walk a couple of blocks west on 23rd Avenue. (The W train does not run on weekends.)
Sarah Riccio lives, writes, and slings beer in Astoria. She brought down the house at our very first show in 2016. Don't miss her doing it again.
Please join Sarah and all our spectacular readers for Line Break #4, Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
Oscar Sanders was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. The former jazz/funk/rock guitarist has garnered awards for shorts, features, documentary films, and a political crime novel. His creative writing led to seething political spoken word poetry and performances.
Learn more at malcolmentertainment.com,
facebook.com/oscar.sanders.3192, and @oscarsanders.
Please join Oscar and all our tremendous readers for Line Break #4, Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
Sydney Beveridge has interviewed a judo Olympian at a grappling session, played a cruel waitress in a radio drama, and channeled Cher to explain census data. She communicates demographics, software, and stories for SocialExplorer.com. Working for the Corporation for Independent Media and independently, she has produced stories for BBC Radio, WNYC, SiriusXM, Third Coast International Audio Festival, and Public Radio Exchange. She'll soon be climbing into a water tower for their next radio documentary. She is also assisting with the development of a stage play inspired by outsider artist Henry Darger. She has performed at storytellling shows including No You Tell It! and Drink.Think. As a standup comic, she participated in the She Devil Comedy Festival and co-hosts Free Mic Fridays at Q.E.D.
Please join Sydney and all our talented readers for Line Break #4, Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
As a poet and essayist, Richard Jeffrey Newman's work explores the impact of feminism on his life as a man. As a co-translator of classical Persian poetry, he writes about the impact of that canon on our contemporary lives. His most recent books are For My Son, A Kind of Prayer (Ghostbird Press, 2016) and the translation The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi's Shahameh (Junction Press, 2011). He is also the author of The Silence of Men (Cavankerry Press, 2006) and Selections from Saadi's Gulistan and Selections from Saadi's Bustan (Global Scholarly Publications, 2004 & 2006).
Newman is on the executive board of Newtown Literary, a Queens, NY-based literary non-profit and curates the First Tuesdays reading series in Jackson Heights, Queens. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Salon.com, The American Voice, Another Chicago Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Diode, New Verse News, Unlikely Stories, Cipher, Ekleksographia, and Dirty Goat. He is Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. His website is www.richardjnewman.com.
Please join Rich and all our talented readers for Line Break #4, Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
Jacob M. Appel is the author of the novels The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, which won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award, and The Biology of Luck (2013). His story collection, Scouting for the Reaper (2014), won the Hudson Prize. Other collections include The Magic Laundry (2015) and Phoning Home: Essays (2014). His plays have been staged at New York's Theatre Row, the Manhattan Repertory Theater, Detroit Rep, and many regional theaters. He practices psychiatry in New York City. More at www.jacobmappel.com.
Please join Jacob and all our tremendous readers for Line Break #4, Saturday, February 4, 3:00 p.m. at Q.E.D. in Astoria. Tickets are only 7 bucks!
