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On Thursday, November 14, come to The Word Barn at 7:00 pm (doors at 6:30pm) for a reading featuring Sherrie Flick, Guy Capecelatro III, and Matt Jasper. Come celebrate these authors, check out their books, and engage with each other during the social break.
$5 suggested donation | Doors at 6:30pm | Reading at 4:00
ABOUT SHERRIE FLICK
Sherrie Flick is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College. She received a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She served as co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist published with University of Nebraska Press in September 2024 as part of their American Lives series. Her third story collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, will publish in April 2025 with Autumn House Press. Her other works include:Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories, Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories, and Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
ABOUT GUY CAPECELATRO III
Guy Capecelatro III is the author of the books Some Women and Cape Breton Poems and the forthcoming These Small Moments. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Story Quarterly, The Hawaii Review, The Square, The Wire, Dasein, Utter, The Penguin Review, Spotlight Magazine, Hi-Fi Magazine, Rollerderby, Multi-Ball, Mono, Aegis, Boston Rock and Tray-Full of Lab Mice Productions. For four years he was the editor of the ‘zine Two-Ton Santa. He is also prolific singer-songwriter, winning five Spotlight awards for his albums over the years and an Inspiration Award from Portsmouth Public Media Television in 2018. Guy Capecelatro III currently lives in Kittery, Maine, with his cat Delilah.
ABOUT MATT JASPER
Matt Jasper’s work has been called “documentary surrealism” by the publisher of Tinfish. He is interested in the thought and language of autism and schizophrenia. His poems have appeared in Grand Street, Fine Madness, Evergreen Review, Cafe Review, Meat for Tea, Asylum, and elsewhere. His 2009 book Moth Moon was published by Blazevox and blurbed by Franz Wright and Pagan Kennedy. He is slotted to complete a chapbook for Burst & Bloom on his way to finishing his next book entitled The Water of Learning to Drink.