AWP Offsite: Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers Reading

Celebrated author Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen and the School for Wayward Writers has provided hundreds of writers with community, inspiration, and creative workshops since 2005. At this event, you’ll hear brilliant writers from near and far who have thrived in this liberated literary utopia, and incubated their stories in the Literary Kitchen. Ariel Gore’s new book The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar is out now from Microcosm Press. Christa Orth writes about the magic of queer coming-of-age, intrepid escapes from Catholic doctrine, and dreams of a drag king utopia. Their stories have appeared in Ariel Gore’s Lambda Literary Award winning collection Portland Queer, visualaids.org, and the Lambda anthology 25 for 25. Christa is writing a memoir about being a drag king in Portland in the early 2000s. Originally from Bothell, they now live in Brooklyn, NY. Tomas Moniz’s debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway, the LAMBDA, and the Foreward Indies Awards. He has two cats and 3 chickens. He also has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the short story collection Graft, published by Tolsun Books in 2022, and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars. She's the co-editor of Red Flag Warning, an anthology about living with fire to be published by HeyDay Books. She teaches poetry with Community Literary Initiative in Los Angeles. In her memoir, Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World, Alyssa Graybeal explores the emotional landscape of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The book won the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award and comes out in May. She works as an editor/writing coach in Astoria, Oregon. Randi Hoffman has published nonfiction in the anthologies: Places Like Home; The Zen of Mothering; Un Bordado de Voces; and After the Clouds the Sun. She has written art reviews for A Gathering of the Tribes and Downtown. She teaches English at a community college and lives in the East Village of Manhattan. Jenny Forrester has been published here and there, online and in print to accolades and otherwise. Her memoirs are Narrow River, Wide Sky, and Soft Hearted Stories: Seeking Saviors, Cowboy Stylists and Other Fallacies of Authoritarianism. She’s still Unchaste, damned if she does or doesn’t. She publishes Mountain Bluebird Magazine. Dusty Bryndal is a Tennessee transplant who’s been teaching in New York City’s public schools for nearly a decade. She has published poems on hipmamazine.com and in the Places Like Home anthology. She’s published a chapbook called Losing Judah and is working on a poetic memoir detailing the loss of her son. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats. Avis Barlow delights in telling stories that privilege the warped and juicy moments of life. Their tiny queer love story was published in the anthology, Places Like Home, edited by Ariel Gore. When not writing, Avis looks up things for fun and speaks truth to their dog and anyone else that will listen. Jenny Hayes grew up in Berkeley, California, but has called Seattle home for more than 20 years. She's a graduate of the low-residency MFA program at U.C. Riverside - Palm Desert, and her writing has appeared in Hobart, Geometry, Spartan, Jenny Magazine, and other interesting places. Ariel Gore is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including three national bestsellers: The Mother Trip, How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead, and We Were Witches. Her latest book, which is also a school, The Wayward Writer, is out now from Microcosm. She founded Hip Mama magazine and now serves as the strict headmistress of Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers, a creative community for feminist writers of all genders at literarykitchen.net.

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