BANG OUT Volume VIII: HEAT
“Five People Describe Burning Up” by Joy Lanzendorfer
“Alien Vacation” by Lizzy Acker
“LESSON 68: USAGE” by Christine Choi
Visit the Video Library to watch our readers’ performances.
The eighth installment of BANG OUT Reading Series was held on August 14th at Amnesia in San Francisco. The event featured a hot collection of readers and work inspired by our theme, HEAT.
Joy Lanzendorfer is a writer living near San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Superstition Review, So To Speak, Rumble, Word Riot, Salon, The Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. She is a four-time judge for the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards and is co-founder of the writing group Word Pirates.
Lizzy Acker’s work has been published in Nano Fiction and Tramp Quarterly. She was the co-creator/curator, with Amira Pierce, of the San Francisco reading series Funny/Sexy/Sad. Her first book, Monster Party, is forthcoming from Small Desk Press. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State and she blogs daily at lizzyacker.com.
Maria Suarez’s work has appeared in Story Quarterly and the Anthology Voices. She lives in a tiny metal house in Sunnyvale.
Paul Padilla was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of the English: Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. He can think of no place greater than San Francisco to be published for the very first time. Paul hopes that when his future screenplay, novel, and comic book are published, that he retains the same feelings as he does now: a sense of excitement and optimism, a sense of raw and wild abandonment and hopes those feelings remain pure and everlasting. But he also knows that sometimes things in life are just quick and dirty and that’s just fine by him.
Jim Nelson’s work has appeared in We Still Like, North American Review, Instant City, Switchback, SmokeLong Quarterly, Watchword, and other fine literary venues. He is a Floundering Skeptician of the Flat Earth Collective, which recently went international. He can be reached at barbecuingpeople.com.
Christine Choi passes days puddle-jumping in matters of the heart, investigating human/animal/machine relationships, and producing unusual sounds, images, or texts. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, and her writing has appeared in literary journals such as In Posse Review and Paul Revere’s Horse.
Diana Aehegma is a poet and sometimes printmaker/book artist who lives in Oakland, CA. She holds an MA and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She grew up in Hawaii and so spent the majority of her childhood sunburned, but would still rather be too warm than too cold.
