Anthology Reading & Reception
Saturday, Jan 21
7 pm
The Ink Spot
713 13th St., Studio 210
East Village/San Diego

Every life has its tipping points–those moments when multiple future paths are laid out and decisions must be made. In an anthology curated by Colin Farstad and filled with writing by Tom Spanbauer and alums of his Dangerous Writers workshops, local writers confront The Frozen Moment of their lives in essays, fiction, poetry and non-fiction. – Marianna Hane Wiles

The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Choices that Change Our Lives, is a short story anthology involving fiction, poetry, essays and narrative nonfiction by emerging and established writers exploring the pivotal moments and choices that change the direction of our lives. I’m honored to be included with other twenty-six other writers.

The Frozen Moment features twenty-seven stories from authors such as award-winning novelist Tom Spanbauer, Pushcart Prize winning essayist Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Pushcart nominated writers Liz Prato, Tori Malcangio and Nora Robertson, Literary Fellowship recipients David Hernandez and Margaret Malone, Lamda Literary Fellowship winner David Ciminello, along with writers Nicole Vollrath, Gigi Little, Andrew Printer, and Michael Sage Ricci. The collected stories will make you laugh and break your heart as each writer explores their frozen moment.

Join me and three other San Diego writers who will be reading from their stories in the anthology:

Nicole Vollrath earned her MFA at Emerson College in Boston. Her recent short fiction can be found in A Year in Ink and San Diego CityBeat. She teaches creative writing at UCSD Extension and cohosts “Room To Write” at San Diego Writers, Ink. sandiegowriters.org is her favorite website.

Tori Malcangio is a freelance advertising copywriter, mom, etc. in San Diego. Winner of 2010 Waasmode Fiction Prize, her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA; Passages North; Smokelong Quarterly; Pearl Magazine; Literary Mama; The San Diego Reader; VerbSap; the 2010 anthology, A Year in Ink. She has a story forthcoming in Cream City Review and is a MFA candidate at Bennington College. Oh, the blog: halfassedmom.com.

Born in Hong Kong and raised there, Texas and rural England Andrew Printer is an artist and writer now based in San Diego. Hiss videos and photographs have been exhibited internationally and his work is included in several collections. He is currently working on several projects including a short novel and a series of paintings. andrewprinter.com/

Copies of the book will be available at the event.