Storytelling & Prose Open Mic with Gale Massey
Hosted by Wordier Than Thou
LiteraryJoin us for our first Storytelling & Prose open mic live and in person in more than a year. Bring your finest prose or a true story to share. In addition to open mic readers, Gale Massey, who released her collection of short stories, Rising and Other Stories, in April, will be our guest author.
Gale’s debut novel, The Girl from Blind River, received a 2018 Florida Book Award and was a finalist for the Clara Johnson award. Her work has appeared in Salon, Writer’s Digest, Lambda Literary, CutBank, CrimeReads, Sabal, the Tampa Bay Times, Saw Palm, and Tampa Bay Noir. Gale was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, a fellow at Writers in Paradise, and has served as a panel judge for the Lamdba Literary Awards. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in both fiction and nonfiction.
Learn more about her work at galemassey.com.
The Rules:
1. Every reader gets 10 minutes to share their work.
2. We’ll limit each event to just 10 readers.
3. Toss your name in the bucket when you arrive. Names will be chosen at random.
4. Tickets are $5 and must be purchased in advance. No cash ticket sales at the door.
5. Capacity is limited so get your ticket early!
6. Masks are required by Studio@620 and social distancing will be observed.
