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SJLA Welcomes Sister Spit

SJLA is extremely excited to host the traveling literary performance group Sister Spit here in Fresno. They’ll be at The Voice Shop (1296 N Wishon Ave) next Tuesday, April 9th at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Here’s a short description of the group:

Sister Spit was established in San Francisco in the early 1990’s as a weekly all-female open mic series, co-founded by Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson. The duo launched the first Sister Spit national tour in 1997: 2 vans chock-full with cutting-edge dyke female writers and performers. Since its inception, Sister Spit has crossed the country many times and re-merged in 2007 as Sister Spit- Next Generation featuring established writers with young, emerging queer and queer-influenced artists of all genders.

You can read full bios of all the performers here.

SJLA’S 3rd Annual Wordfest

SJLA is excited to announce our third annual Wordfest. This year, we’re bringing writers John Jeremiah Sullivan (nonfiction), Davy Rothbart (fiction and nonfiction), and Camille Dungy (Poetry). Each writer will give a craft talk from 2pm-4pm (send an email to wordfest13@gmail.com to reserve a spot) and read from their work at 7pm in the Alice Peters Auditorium.

 

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1st Year MFA Student Nikki Lassen Reading at Rogue

2nd Year MFA Student Cameron Aveson Reading at Rogue

2nd Year MFA Student Yinka Reed-Nolan Reading at Rogue

MFA Student Murleen Ray Reading at Rogue

2nd Year MFA Student Shane Velez Reading at Rogue

3rd Year Student Ashley Wells Reading at Rogue

1st Year MFA Student Stacey Balkun Reading at Rogue

2nd Year MFA Student Leslie Santikian Reading at Rogue

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