Play on Words is a new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose that pairs performers with up-and-coming and already established writers, resulting in a live performance.
A new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose, Play on Words, is looking for submissions from up-and-coming and already established writers. This series pairs actors and performers with writers, resulting in a live performance of your piece. We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and theatrical sketches under 15 minutes long. Please submit a maximum of ten double spaced pages to [email protected]. The founders' bios follow below:
Julia Halprin Jackson is a 2012 graduate of UC Davis' M.A. in Creative Writing program, where she wrote 100 one-hundred-word stories and started a novel-in-progress entitled Foreigner. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in SMITH Mag, Flatmancrooked, California Northern, Fourteen Hills, Sacramento News & Review, Fictionade, OccuPoetry, sPARKLE & bLINK, Catalyst and Spectrum. Read more at juliahalprinjackson.com.
Nicole Hughes is a lecturer at San Jose State University and the Acting Director of the Center for Literary Arts. She completed an MFA in fiction writing from San Jose State University, where she now teaches composition in the English & Comparative Literature Department. Her story "Impasto Portrait" was published in Liebamour. As an MFA student, she was awarded the 2011 Ann Lillis Creative Writing Scholarship and the 2009 and 2011 James Phelan Literary Award.
Melinda Marks has performed in the Bay Area for over 20 years, and has more recently begun trying her hand as a writer of short plays and as a director. She holds a BA from UCSC in Theater with an emphasis in dramaturgy, and an MA from San Jose State in Theater Studies.
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A new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose, Play on Words, is looking for submissions from up-and-coming and already established writers. This series pairs actors and performers with writers, resulting in a live performance of your piece. We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and theatrical sketches under 15 minutes long. Please submit a maximum of ten double spaced pages to [email protected]. The founders' bios follow below:
Julia Halprin Jackson is a 2012 graduate of UC Davis' M.A. in Creative Writing program, where she wrote 100 one-hundred-word stories and started a novel-in-progress entitled Foreigner. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in SMITH Mag, Flatmancrooked, California Northern, Fourteen Hills, Sacramento News & Review, Fictionade, OccuPoetry, sPARKLE & bLINK, Catalyst and Spectrum. Read more at juliahalprinjackson.com.
Nicole Hughes is a lecturer at San Jose State University and the Acting Director of the Center for Literary Arts. She completed an MFA in fiction writing from San Jose State University, where she now teaches composition in the English & Comparative Literature Department. Her story "Impasto Portrait" was published in Liebamour. As an MFA student, she was awarded the 2011 Ann Lillis Creative Writing Scholarship and the 2009 and 2011 James Phelan Literary Award.
Melinda Marks has performed in the Bay Area for over 20 years, and has more recently begun trying her hand as a writer of short plays and as a director. She holds a BA from UCSC in Theater with an emphasis in dramaturgy, and an MA from San Jose State in Theater Studies.
Play on Words is a new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose that pairs performers with up-and-coming and already established writers, resulting in a live performance.
A new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose, Play on Words, is looking for submissions from up-and-coming and already established writers. This series pairs actors and performers with writers, resulting in a live performance of your piece. We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and theatrical sketches under 15 minutes long. Please submit a maximum of ten double spaced pages to [email protected]. The founders' bios follow below:
Julia Halprin Jackson is a 2012 graduate of UC Davis' M.A. in Creative Writing program, where she wrote 100 one-hundred-word stories and started a novel-in-progress entitled Foreigner. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in SMITH Mag, Flatmancrooked, California Northern, Fourteen Hills, Sacramento News & Review, Fictionade, OccuPoetry, sPARKLE & bLINK, Catalyst and Spectrum. Read more at juliahalprinjackson.com.
Nicole Hughes is a lecturer at San Jose State University and the Acting Director of the Center for Literary Arts. She completed an MFA in fiction writing from San Jose State University, where she now teaches composition in the English & Comparative Literature Department. Her story "Impasto Portrait" was published in Liebamour. As an MFA student, she was awarded the 2011 Ann Lillis Creative Writing Scholarship and the 2009 and 2011 James Phelan Literary Award.
Melinda Marks has performed in the Bay Area for over 20 years, and has more recently begun trying her hand as a writer of short plays and as a director. She holds a BA from UCSC in Theater with an emphasis in dramaturgy, and an MA from San Jose State in Theater Studies.
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A new collaborative literary performance series in San Jose, Play on Words, is looking for submissions from up-and-coming and already established writers. This series pairs actors and performers with writers, resulting in a live performance of your piece. We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and theatrical sketches under 15 minutes long. Please submit a maximum of ten double spaced pages to [email protected]. The founders' bios follow below:
Julia Halprin Jackson is a 2012 graduate of UC Davis' M.A. in Creative Writing program, where she wrote 100 one-hundred-word stories and started a novel-in-progress entitled Foreigner. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in SMITH Mag, Flatmancrooked, California Northern, Fourteen Hills, Sacramento News & Review, Fictionade, OccuPoetry, sPARKLE & bLINK, Catalyst and Spectrum. Read more at juliahalprinjackson.com.
Nicole Hughes is a lecturer at San Jose State University and the Acting Director of the Center for Literary Arts. She completed an MFA in fiction writing from San Jose State University, where she now teaches composition in the English & Comparative Literature Department. Her story "Impasto Portrait" was published in Liebamour. As an MFA student, she was awarded the 2011 Ann Lillis Creative Writing Scholarship and the 2009 and 2011 James Phelan Literary Award.
Melinda Marks has performed in the Bay Area for over 20 years, and has more recently begun trying her hand as a writer of short plays and as a director. She holds a BA from UCSC in Theater with an emphasis in dramaturgy, and an MA from San Jose State in Theater Studies.
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The Blackbird Tavern
Paseo de San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA 95113
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