Word Pirates

We will have our reading event at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma on Feb. 8, 2007. Hurray! We will be able to feature a ton of visual artists, in addition to the reading stylings of the fabulous Word Pirates. Any artists interested should e-mail us.

We will have another critique sesssion for everyone in December. For Word Pirates who want to read at the event, the December critique is the chance to workshop the piece that will be performed. Then after that, we will have occassions to practice reading so that once the content is all sewed up, you can practice your delivery in front of some friendly faces.

Our very own Noelani is fiction editor of en fuego, a new lit journal. She is looking for stories, so send them to her already!

And now on to the prompt …

We wanted to tie our personal experience with those of others, to connect to our readers. Prompt: Tell a true story about yourself that ties you to a historic event or person. Since this involves some research, we had a brain storming session rather than writing in group. Some good examples of this include a piece in which David Sedaris visits the Anne Frank house during the height of house hunting and decides it’s the perfect house and a piece by Sarah Vowell in which she and her sister, both of Cherokee heritage, visit the Trail of Tears.