The annual Fall Reading Series presents a season of events celebrating literature, showcasing award-winning authors, and honoring the inspiration to write. Events are sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program of Grossmont College, as well as a variety of other campus agencies and programs.
Wednesday, September 25
Flash Fiction Mob: Bonnie ZoBell
7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Griffin Gate
Join local author Bonnie ZoBell and the winners of the Creative Writing Program’s
Flash Fiction Contest for a night of blazing awesomeness. ZoBell, an English Professor
at San Diego Mesa College, will read from her award winning chapbook, The Whack-Job Girls & Other Stories. Steve Almond calls ZoBell “a writer with a sharp eye, a sharper tongue, and a reckless
heart.”
Thursday, September 26
Celebration of Banned Books Reading
7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Griffin Gate
Joe Medina of the Grossmont College English Department returns for another subversive uncensored evening and flaming good time. The event is part of the national education campaign commemorating National Banned Books Week.
Contact Prof. Joe Medina for more info: joe.medina@gcccd.edu.
Tuesday, October 22
World Premiere
A Box Full of Rocks: The El Cajon Years of Lester Bangs
7pm, Room 26-220
See where the infamous rock critic’s legend began in the feature-length documentary produced and directed by Raul Sandelin (Grossmont College English instructor and music journalist for the San Diego Troubadour), with assistance from the Grossmont College Media Communications Department and the Creative Writing Program.
Thursday, November 14
LIVING WITH NOISE:
an Evening with poet Joseph Voth
7:00pm Griffin Gate
Joseph Voth, recipient of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, has recently returned
to California from New York City. Living With Noise is his first critically acclaimed
collection of poetry. Alan Kaufman, editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, praises Voth’s collection as offering “flawlessly precise evocations” and “elegiac
and elegant turns of phrase.”
Monday, December 2
New Voices: A Student Reading
7:00pm, Griffin Gate
In a traditional end-of-semester tribute to its rising stars, the Grossmont College Creative Writing Program rounds out the Fall 2013 semester with a reading and performance of original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and other unique forms of literary and spoken word art.
This semester's student readers include
Melissa Wimbs
Mark Reilly
Edgar Acosta
Alexander Tagnani
Harry Cope
Chelsea Hosskison
Jennifer Griffith
Tawnie Ashley
Jennifer Forte
Allie Gove
Kaleb Cook
Evvan Burke
Lynn Ferguson-Weinert
Barbara Carlton