First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

The featured readers are

Eric Rensberger and  Joan Hawkins

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission

and the Bloomington Arts Commission

Eric Rensberger has enjoyed a long and productive relationship with the Bloomington writers community. He is interested in the passage of time, human folly, and his occasional difficulties understanding himself. His major publication is a website, Poems of Eric Rensberger

His work can also be found in several chapbooks and anthologies,  and experienced live at readings around town.

Joan Hawkins is a professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She has written extensively on horror and the avant-garde. Outside academia, she writes creative memoir, and her work has appeared in Sand, Avalanches of Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, n+1, and The Performing Arts Journal.  She is the chair of the Writers Guild at Bloomington and she coordinates the First Sunday Prose Reading Series.

The Writers Guild at Bloomington is committed to fostering diversity, and welcomes members regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, and ability.