About
From Amick Boone and Kevin Hobson, former curators of the Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series, BANG OUT Reading Series provides writing prompts to encourage new work that is “banged out” for its readings. Our aim is to inspire our readers to write and present work that’s fresh and spontaneous and to hear how some of our favorite writers interpret our prompts.
Kevin Hobson and Amick Boone, Curators of BANG OUT Reading Series.
Amick Boone received her MFA in poetry at San Francisco State University in 2006. Her chapbook, Notes From Outside Sources (Sea Lamb Press) was published in 2004, and her poems have appeared in Boog City, Big Bell, and the anthology of bay area poetry, Bay Poetics (Faux Press). Her full-length manuscript Notes From Outside Sources was a finalist for the 2009 FENCE Books Motherwell prize. She is the former director of the Northern California Chapter of Ecstatic Monkey, a literary non-profit and collective supporting emerging writers in the Bay Area. She co-curates BANG OUT Reading Series in San Francisco.
Kevin Hobson is a writer of fiction, essays, non-fiction, songs, music reviews, and industrial copy about chocolate. His past stories have appeared in several journals, most recently Instant City magazine. He was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2007 Best New Writer award and is a regular contributor to TheRumpus.net. Kevin holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University. He also plays bass guitar in the Accidental Poets, the backing band for the folk singer John Craigie. He lives in San Francisco where he co-curates BANG OUT Reading Series and enjoys his chronic addictions to burritos and internet television.
