Short and Sweet
Prose poetry and flash fiction, popular new literary forms, present special delights and challenges. Enjoy two writers especially adept at these short forms.
Jessica
Treat’s collection of short-short stories, A Robber in the House
(Coffee House Press, 1993) is in its second printing. Not a Chance,
stories and a novella, was published by Fiction Collective 2 in 2000.
Her stories, essays and prose poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies,
including: Ms., Black Warrior Review, Epoch, American Literary Review,
Double Room, Green Mountains Review, Quarterly West, Web del Sol,
and Terra Incognita. She is Associate Professor of English and
Spanish at Northwestern Connecticut Community College.
Thaddeus
Rutkowski’s novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Press), is made up of short
poetic pieces that mirror the whole and was a finalist for the Members’
Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His work is anthologized
in Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee
House), Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon (Anthology Editions)
and elsewhere. His stories have appeared in Fiction, American Letters
and Commentary, Asian Pacific American Journal, Rattapallax, Columbia
Review, and other magazines. He teaches fiction at the Writer’s Voice
of the West Side YMCA.
Writers:
Rutkowski is teaching a “Short
and Sweet” class
on Tuesday evenings, July 13, 20, and 27.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.