Join us to celebrate the release of AWAKENINGS: STORIES OF BODIES & CONSCIOUSNESS (ELJ Editions), edited by DIANE GOTTLIEB. Readings from contributors will be followed by a Q&A.
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a writer living in Bristol, UK. Her work appears in Wigleaf Top 50, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Frog, Ellipsis Zine, Emerge Literary Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal, Stanchion and elsewhere. She has won Manchester School of Writing’s QuietManDave prize and the flash fiction contest organised by Welsh publisher, Lucent Dreaming, and her stories have been nominated for Best Microfiction and the Pushcart Prize. You can read her flash narratives and poems at www.kamwords.com. She tweets @kazbarwrites.
Ezekiel Cork is a trans writer who lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife and two rescue mutts. He runs and hikes the local trails, loves cookies, coffee and trucker hats. His writing has been published in Bending Genres, X-RAY Lit, Pidgeonholes, Savant Garde and others. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and he was a finalist in the last Glimmer Train Short Story competition.
Diane Gottlieb MSW, MEd, MFA is a writer, educator, and the editor of Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness (ELJ Editions 2023). Her words appear in 2023 Best Microfiction, River Teeth, Huff Post, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, Barrelhouse, and many other lovely places. She is the winner of Tiferet Journal’s 2021 Writing Contest in the nonfiction category and on the 2023 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. Diane is the Prose/CNF Editor of Emerge Literary Journal, on the Hippocampus Magazine's reviews team, and is the founder and author of WomanPause, a newsletter dedicated to lifting the voices of women over 50. You can find her at https://dianegottlieb.com and on FB, IG, Bluesky, and Twitter (she can't bring herself to say X): @DianeGotAuthor.
Ellen Birkett Morris’s novel Beware the Tall Grass is the winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, judged by Lan Samantha Chang, and will be published in 2024 by CSU Press in March 2024. She is the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, Oh Reader magazine, and on National Public Radio.
Tania Richard is a published writer, award-winning actress, teacher, and antiracism educator. Her platform Tania!s Take showcases her podcast, essays, DEI educational content and videos. Her blog, Writing My Mind was on The Chicago Tribune’s blog site for ten years. She’s also an award- winning playwright. Her commentary can be heard on OUT Chicago, NPR’s The Story, All Things Considered and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.
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