is a bimonthly reading series hosted at The Big Hunt in Washington, DC. It was created to provide authors who’ve recently released novels, collections, or chapbooks with independent presses an opportunity to add a major metropolis with a rich literary tradition to their book tour. Three Tents also features upcoming local authors and graduate students, in hopes of bringing these communities closer together.
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Mathias Svalina is the author of one book of poetry, Destruction Myth (CSU Poetry Center), & one book of prose, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press). With Zachary Schomburg & Alisa Heinzman he co-edits Octopus Books.
Sandra Beasley’s most recent book is Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. She is also the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Other honors for her work include selection for the 2010 Best American Poetry, the 2010 University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence position, a DCCAH Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Nick Demske lives in Racine, Wisconsin and shelves books at the Racine Public Library. His self-titled book was selected by Joyelle McSweeney for the Fence Modern Poets Series Award in 2010 and was chosen as one of the year’s top 10 books of poetry by a Believer Magazine reader survey. One reviewer has said of it: “Not my cup of shit.” Yet another: “I’m offended and I want my eleven dollars back.” Right.
Daniel D’Angelo is a 3rd year MFA candidate at George Mason University. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Collagist, H_ngm_n, and NOO Journal. He is Poetry Editor for Phoebe: a Journal of Literature and Art.
Sun. October 2nd
Doors at 6
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Rae Bryant lives in the Washington D.C. area. Her story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, NY) releases June 2011. Her short stories have appeared in BLIP Magazine, Opium Magazine, PANK, Caper Literary Journal and Foundling Review, among others and have been nominated and short-listed for short story and best of web awards. Work forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Gargoyle Magazineand the PS Books anthology En(Un)Gender Me. She is a VCCA Fellow and a candidate in the M.A. in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University where she is finishing her novel as part of her thesis this spring.
Caitlin Cushman holds an M.F.A in creative writing from American University and a B.F.A in fiction from Emerson College. Her work has appeared in So To Speak and will appear in the forthcoming Grace and Gravity anthology of DC women writers. She has been the managing editor of Poet Lore, America’s 123-year-old poetry journal, for three years, and a supporter of DC-area literati for seven. As this summer will end with Caitlin living in Boston, this is her last reading south of the Mason Dixon line for the foreseeable future. Let’s hope she doesn’t fuck it up.
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart and is the founder of The Lit Pub.
Michael Kimball is the author of four books, including Dear Everybody (which The Believer calls “a curatorial masterpiece”) and, most recently, Us (which The Observer calls “powerful and moving … breathless”). His work has been on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Prairie Schooner, and New York Tyrant. His books have been translated into a dozen languages He is also responsible for Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard), a couple of documentaries, the 510 Readings, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.
Daniel Knowlton writes in the MFA fiction program at the University of Maryland and, in the Fall, will co-host The Mock Turtle, Maryland’s student reading series. Prior to grad school, he freelanced for a handful of publications on everything from beach party raves in Japan to stem cell treatments for hip replacement recovery. He has happily left his freelance days behind, for now, in favor of fiction, his first true love. He lives in Washington, DC.
Adam Novy is the author of a novel in two volumes, The Avian Gospels. Adam’s work has been published in Dossier, The Believer, The Collagist, The Denver Quarterly, andAmerican Letters and Commentary. He lives in southern California and teaches for at least two colleges.
Joseph Riippi is the author of the novel Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!.His next book, The Orange Suitcase, is forthcoming March 2011 from Ampersand Books. He lives in New York City.
Amber Sparks’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in various places, includingNew York Tyrant, Unsaid, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse, Annalemma, Big Lucks and PANK. She is also the fiction editor at Emprise Review as well as a contributor at the lit blogs Big Other and Vouched, and she lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two beasts.
Christian TeBordo had published three novels. His most recent book, a collection of short fiction called The Awful Possibilities, is available from featherproof. He lives in Philadelphia.
Laura van den Berg’s stories have or will soon appear in Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was selected for the Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Program, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award. She currently lives in Baltimore, where she is the 2010-2011 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School.
Philip Dean Walker is a Washington DC area native. He graduated in 2001 from Middlebury College with a BA in American Literature and is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at American University. He resides in the U Street Corridor and works for the Department of the Navy. Also of note, he was named after one of Erica Kane’s many husbands on the soon-to-be canceled All My Children. His fiction is forthcoming in Big Lucks.
Paul Zaic is completing his MFA at George Mason University. He is an alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers (’09). Presently, he is working on a collection of epistolary short stories for his thesis.
