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Benjamin Hale is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He received a University of Iowa Provost’s Fellowship to write The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, which also went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a trompe l’oeil painter, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. He grew up in Colorado and now lives in New York. He reads from his novel: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

“The most talented and intriguing young writer I’ve met in years. A writer with a capital W. . . It’s like being a baseball scout in Oklahoma in the late 1940’s and seeing this young kid running around center-field, and you ask the guy next to you, ‘Who’s that?’ And the guy says, ‘I don’t know, some kid named Mickey Mantle.’” -Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, and the HBO series Bored to Death
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Deborah Willis was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and now lives in Victoria, Canada. Her work has appeared in the Bridport Prize Anthology, Event, and Grain, and she wa a winner o f PRISM International’s annual fiction prize. short-listed for the Governor General’s literary Award and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Vanishing and Others Stories is her first book of fiction.
“The emotional range an depth of these stories, their clarity and deftness, is astonishing,” Alice Munro
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John Reed is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball’s Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World’s a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008). He will read from his fifth book, Tales of Woe, chronicling true stories of abject misery.
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fiction/director- Suzanne Dottino - contact: Suzanne@kgbbar.com

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,