Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Reading: Duke City Dime Stories

CONTACT:  Jennifer Simpson, dukecity.dimestories@gmail.com

DUKE CITY DIMESTORIES CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 16, 2011—Duke City DimeStories will celebrate its one year anniversary with a Showcase of DimeStories selected from the best of the past year’s monthly open mic events. Several affiliated with UNM’s Department of English will be reading their Best Of from the past year:  Annarose Fitzgerald, David Rubalcava, James Burbank, Larry Goeckel, Ariel Gore, Cassie Lopez, Von Jones, Lucy DuPertuis, and Suzanne Richardson and Jennifer Simpson.

DimeStories are 3-minutes prose pieces read by the author and the three best stories of each month are recorded and posted online at www.DimeStories.org. The reading series has been partly sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association.

The First Showcase will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 20, 2011 at Alamosa Books, 8810 Holly Avenue NE Suite D, in Albuquerque where as many as 22 authors will read their three-minute prose pieces.  We will also enjoy a potluck reception; the event is free and open to the public.

About Duke City DimeStories:
Duke City DimeStory monthly Open Mic events take place every third Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Ave. SE (south of Central at Anderson).  Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.

Duke City DimeStories is affiliated with DimeStories Theater, a national organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of 3-minute stories read by the author to the listening public by open mic, showcase events, or radio and podcasts. Events are held each month in San Diego, Orange County and New York. The Albuquerque event is co-hosted by Jennifer Simpson and Merimee
Moffit.  The first year was sponsored in part by the English Graduate Student Association at the University of New Mexico.

About Alamosa Books:
Alamosa Books is an independent bookstore. It is the newest independent bookstore in Albuquerque, and it is the only one that specializes in our youth. For more information, visit http://www.AlamosaBooks.com

About the Hosts:
Jennifer Simpson writes very creative mostly non-fiction prose and is enrolled in the MFA / creative writing program at UNM. Before moving to Albuquerque she was a regular at the San Diego DimeStories Open
Mic. One of her pieces, “The Letter,” was selected for San Diego’s Best of Year 3 CD.  Merimee Moffitt is a graduate of UNM; she writes poetry and memoir and teaches now and then at CNM.  She is co-editor of the monthly broadside The Rag and has published poems in Pemmican, Lunarosity, and Persimmon Tree literary magazines.

For More Information:
For more information about DimeStories, visit http://dimestories.org. For information about the Albuquerque event, call 505-503-1380 or email dukecity.dimestories@gmail.com.

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