POETRY, PROSE, AND NO DOUBT, INAPPROPRIATE RANDOM MUSINGS

BETTE O’CALLAGHAN
Bette O’Callaghan comes over as a superannuated rock chick, well past her sell by date but still showing glimpses of her former glamour and glory. A true grande dame in the Bette Davis mould. Writes and performs with great panache. BADEN PRINCE – SPEAKEASY, LONDON, ENGLAND

LORIA MENDOZA
Loria Mendoza hails from Austin, Texas, where she learned to keep it weird. Seeking the constancy of the bizarre, she moved to the Mission District in San Francisco, where she earned her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Mobius, Subprimal, Maudlin House, Fourteen Hills, Red Light Lit, The Walrus, Transfer Magazine, and featured at Oakland’s Beast Crawl and San Francisco’s Litquake. Her book, Life’s Too Short, won the Michael Rubin Book Award in 2016. She has relocated back to Austin. 

DAVID JEWELL
David Jewell = “subtracting daylight from my mouth my words fall blind from dark cave of brain ––
the things I say never grow like weeds not even sunflowers but more like rivers”. Er, In other words,
if Bette invited him to read at this event you should just trust her and let fate take its chance.