Literary gathering and reading!

Literary gathering and reading! Includes open mic! 

Presented by

Cristina Deptula's "Authors Large and Small" 

October 14, 2018

2:00 pm

Au Coquelet Cafe Restaurant

2000 University Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94704

Our lineup will include Oakland's own Sheryl Bize-Boutte, MC at the Montclair Library's National Poetry Month celebration, whose stories celebrate our history and our hometown amid change and gentrification, and Henry Hitz, whose novel White Knight gives a unique look at the Jonestown killings and murders of supervisors Milk and Moscone through the eyes of a mentally unstable person who believes he has caused and must rectify the tragedies.

Also former Berkeley resident and Beat writer/social activist PW Covington, whose poetry comes from the hard lessons and adventures of the road, not the classroom. He performed together with Sheryl last month at Bay Area Generations, which brought out 100+ people. Also from Berkeley will be Connie Tyler, creator of the fun, humane and compassionate Earth Woman Tree Woman fantasy quartet, an adventure in which humans learn to join the dance of life. Connie is active within dance and movement circles in Oakland/Berkeley and has a following here. And Mary Parks, author of They Called Me Bunny and Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom, tautly crafted historical fiction exploring the tensions between claiming and overcoming racialized identities (Black and Native American) in early American history.
Also, Christopher Bernard, editor of San Francisco's Caveat Lector magazine and author of poetry collection Chien Lunatique,who has previously read at East Bay Booksellers and sparked a lively discussion, and Richmond's Christine Volker, whose sensuous murder mystery Venetian Blood won the Sarton Prize for Women's Fiction for 2018.
We may invite other authors to share as they let us know that they are available, and hope to have space for an open mic should time allow.