About
BANG OUT Reading Series provides writing prompts to inspire new work that is “banged out” for its readings. Hosting bi-monthly readings since 2008, our aim is to encourage interpretations of our prompts that are fresh and spontaneous and to invite writers to share both the generative process and the rough, uncut end result.
Amick Boone and Kevin Hobson, 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 The Equalizer, 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. From 2004-08 she was director of the Northern California Chapter of Ecstatic Monkey, a literary non-profit and collective supporting emerging Bay Area writers through events and promotions. 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.
