Drunken! Careening! Writers! Oh Yes, It's Ladies' Night!

Alice Elliott Dark
Carol Rosenfeld
A short play by Kathleen Warnock
"I Got All My Sisters With Me!"
With your hostess, Kathleen Warnock

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novel, Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist.  Her work has appeared in, among others, The New Yorker, Harper's, Redbook, Double Take, Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards , and translated into many languages.  In the Gloaming, a story, was chosen by John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Stories of The Century and was made into films by HBO and Trinity Playhouse.  Her non-fiction reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many anthologies.  She is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and has been awarded Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships for residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is presently on the faculty of the MFA program at Rutgers, Newark.

Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based writer and poet. Her work can be found in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 and the Lambda-award winning Best Lesbian Erotica 2003, and Back to Basics: A Butch/Femme Anthology. Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual, was an Insight Out Book Club and Quality Paperback Book Club selection. Her first novel, Fool's Mushroom, a wry portrait of New York City's lesbian and gay community as seen by Bambi Devine, a middle-aged baby dyke bridal consultant, is forthcoming. As the volunteer chair of The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, Carol helps to organize and administer the annual Publishing Triangle awards and various other panels and special events.

Kathleen Warnock is the founder of Drunken Careening Writers, and a playwright and editor. This month, you'll hear a reading of her short play The Beast, read by Stephanie Deliani, Jamie Heinlein and Chris Weikel. If you missed her one-act play Some Are People at last year's Spring EATfest, you can see it at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival in May.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a monthly reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don't run
more than 15 minutes each.

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