It’s time once again for Literary Speakeasy to peer into the darkness of the Halloween season. Join us for a special Halloween show as we raise a glass to ghosts, spirits & martinis! Our featured guests are five horror/fantasy authors and storytellers, including Laura Blackwell, Christopher Calix, Elizabeth Creely, Nick Mamatas, and Cliff Winnig. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel.
This spooky show is completely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also, come early for your FREE raffle ticket. We will raffle off a scary prize at the end of the night.
Performer bios:
Laura Blackwell's stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Pseudopod, Strange California, and 2015 Locus Recommended and 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows. She is Shimmer's copy editor. You can find her on Twitter at @pronouncedLAHra.
Christopher Calix is the author of the book Dead Celebrities (Lethe Press). He has a story coming out this month in the anthology First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror.
Elizabeth Creely is a writer, public historian, and speaker who lives in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in literary journals such as The Fourth River and The Catamaran Literary Journal. She’s a contributing writer and speaker to Shaping San Francisco and the Irish American Crossroads festival, both of which offers programming in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her blog features substantive, research-based, and occasionally personal essays that reflect her ongoing interest with the natural ecologies and social histories of California.
Nick Mamatas is a writer and anthologist—his novels include the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence, and Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow), the hybrid crime/SF anthology Hanzai Japan (with Masumi Washington) and the hybrid cocktail recipe/flash fiction title Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer). His short fiction has appeared or soon will in Long Island Noir (reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories), and Vancouver Noir.
Cliff Winnig writes science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, Weird Western, and related genres. His short fiction has appeared on the Escape Pod podcast, in anthologies — such as Footprints, That Ain’t Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley, and the forthcoming Strait Outta Deadwood — and elsewhere. When not writing, Cliff plays sitar, studies aikido, sings in the San Jose Symphonic Choir, and does social dance, including ballroom, swing, and Argentine tango. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley, which constantly inspires him to think about the future. He can be found online at http://cliffwinnig.com.
James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection "How Ghosts Travel" from Spuyten Duyvil Press, which was a finalist for the Ohioana Library Book Award. He hosts and curates the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni's, always held on the last Thursday of every month, which showcases Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters. His work has appeared in several journals including The Cortland Review, Assaracus, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Good Men Project, and more.
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This spooky show is completely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also, come early for your FREE raffle ticket. We will raffle off a scary prize at the end of the night.
Performer bios:
Laura Blackwell's stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Pseudopod, Strange California, and 2015 Locus Recommended and 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows. She is Shimmer's copy editor. You can find her on Twitter at @pronouncedLAHra.
Christopher Calix is the author of the book Dead Celebrities (Lethe Press). He has a story coming out this month in the anthology First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror.
Elizabeth Creely is a writer, public historian, and speaker who lives in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in literary journals such as The Fourth River and The Catamaran Literary Journal. She’s a contributing writer and speaker to Shaping San Francisco and the Irish American Crossroads festival, both of which offers programming in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her blog features substantive, research-based, and occasionally personal essays that reflect her ongoing interest with the natural ecologies and social histories of California.
Nick Mamatas is a writer and anthologist—his novels include the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence, and Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow), the hybrid crime/SF anthology Hanzai Japan (with Masumi Washington) and the hybrid cocktail recipe/flash fiction title Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer). His short fiction has appeared or soon will in Long Island Noir (reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories), and Vancouver Noir.
Cliff Winnig writes science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, Weird Western, and related genres. His short fiction has appeared on the Escape Pod podcast, in anthologies — such as Footprints, That Ain’t Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley, and the forthcoming Strait Outta Deadwood — and elsewhere. When not writing, Cliff plays sitar, studies aikido, sings in the San Jose Symphonic Choir, and does social dance, including ballroom, swing, and Argentine tango. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley, which constantly inspires him to think about the future. He can be found online at http://cliffwinnig.com.
James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection "How Ghosts Travel" from Spuyten Duyvil Press, which was a finalist for the Ohioana Library Book Award. He hosts and curates the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni's, always held on the last Thursday of every month, which showcases Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters. His work has appeared in several journals including The Cortland Review, Assaracus, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Good Men Project, and more.
It’s time once again for Literary Speakeasy to peer into the darkness of the Halloween season. Join us for a special Halloween show as we raise a glass to ghosts, spirits & martinis! Our featured guests are five horror/fantasy authors and storytellers, including Laura Blackwell, Christopher Calix, Elizabeth Creely, Nick Mamatas, and Cliff Winnig. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel.
This spooky show is completely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also, come early for your FREE raffle ticket. We will raffle off a scary prize at the end of the night.
Performer bios:
Laura Blackwell's stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Pseudopod, Strange California, and 2015 Locus Recommended and 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows. She is Shimmer's copy editor. You can find her on Twitter at @pronouncedLAHra.
Christopher Calix is the author of the book Dead Celebrities (Lethe Press). He has a story coming out this month in the anthology First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror.
Elizabeth Creely is a writer, public historian, and speaker who lives in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in literary journals such as The Fourth River and The Catamaran Literary Journal. She’s a contributing writer and speaker to Shaping San Francisco and the Irish American Crossroads festival, both of which offers programming in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her blog features substantive, research-based, and occasionally personal essays that reflect her ongoing interest with the natural ecologies and social histories of California.
Nick Mamatas is a writer and anthologist—his novels include the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence, and Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow), the hybrid crime/SF anthology Hanzai Japan (with Masumi Washington) and the hybrid cocktail recipe/flash fiction title Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer). His short fiction has appeared or soon will in Long Island Noir (reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories), and Vancouver Noir.
Cliff Winnig writes science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, Weird Western, and related genres. His short fiction has appeared on the Escape Pod podcast, in anthologies — such as Footprints, That Ain’t Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley, and the forthcoming Strait Outta Deadwood — and elsewhere. When not writing, Cliff plays sitar, studies aikido, sings in the San Jose Symphonic Choir, and does social dance, including ballroom, swing, and Argentine tango. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley, which constantly inspires him to think about the future. He can be found online at http://cliffwinnig.com.
James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection "How Ghosts Travel" from Spuyten Duyvil Press, which was a finalist for the Ohioana Library Book Award. He hosts and curates the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni's, always held on the last Thursday of every month, which showcases Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters. His work has appeared in several journals including The Cortland Review, Assaracus, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Good Men Project, and more.
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This spooky show is completely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also, come early for your FREE raffle ticket. We will raffle off a scary prize at the end of the night.
Performer bios:
Laura Blackwell's stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Pseudopod, Strange California, and 2015 Locus Recommended and 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows. She is Shimmer's copy editor. You can find her on Twitter at @pronouncedLAHra.
Christopher Calix is the author of the book Dead Celebrities (Lethe Press). He has a story coming out this month in the anthology First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror.
Elizabeth Creely is a writer, public historian, and speaker who lives in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in literary journals such as The Fourth River and The Catamaran Literary Journal. She’s a contributing writer and speaker to Shaping San Francisco and the Irish American Crossroads festival, both of which offers programming in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her blog features substantive, research-based, and occasionally personal essays that reflect her ongoing interest with the natural ecologies and social histories of California.
Nick Mamatas is a writer and anthologist—his novels include the Lovecraftian murder mystery I Am Providence, and Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow), the hybrid crime/SF anthology Hanzai Japan (with Masumi Washington) and the hybrid cocktail recipe/flash fiction title Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer). His short fiction has appeared or soon will in Long Island Noir (reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories), and Vancouver Noir.
Cliff Winnig writes science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, Weird Western, and related genres. His short fiction has appeared on the Escape Pod podcast, in anthologies — such as Footprints, That Ain’t Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley, and the forthcoming Strait Outta Deadwood — and elsewhere. When not writing, Cliff plays sitar, studies aikido, sings in the San Jose Symphonic Choir, and does social dance, including ballroom, swing, and Argentine tango. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley, which constantly inspires him to think about the future. He can be found online at http://cliffwinnig.com.
James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection "How Ghosts Travel" from Spuyten Duyvil Press, which was a finalist for the Ohioana Library Book Award. He hosts and curates the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni's, always held on the last Thursday of every month, which showcases Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters. His work has appeared in several journals including The Cortland Review, Assaracus, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Good Men Project, and more.
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