Join us on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 7pm to hear from fiction writers Scott Mitchel May, Carl Fuerst, and poet Rodlyn-mae Banting. This event is free and open to the public.
November Watershed Reading
Scott Mitchel May is a writer living with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, The Bear Creek Gazette, The Maryland Literary Review, Bending Genres, and many more. He was the winner of the 2019 Poem or Page Contest at the UW Writers' Conference in the category of Literary Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award for his unpublished novel Bridgeport Nowhere. His debut collection of short fiction, DeKalb, Illinois Is a Paradise What Eats its Own, was published by Alien Buddha in 2022. His debut Novel, Awful People: A Ghost Story, is forthcoming from Bear Creek Press. Scott holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in Literature from Edgewood College. He worked for 12 years as a legislative aide in the Wisconsin State Senate and is currently the President of the Only in Wisconsin... Read More
Carl Fuerst's short fiction has appeared in many publications. His experimental novel The Upright Dog was released by Alien Buddha Press in February 2022, and his novel The Falling Crystal Palace is forthcoming from Planet Bizarro Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin and teaches writing and literature at Kishwaukee College.
Rodlyn-mae Banting is a Filipina American poet, cultural critic, and journalist. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and is a staff writer at Jezebel. She recently obtained her master's degree in Gender & Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her writing can be found in Bitch Media, Electric Literature, the Asian American Writers Workshop's The Margins, Tone Madison, and elsewhere.
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