849 S Auto Mall Road
First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
The featured readers are: Carol Edge and Hiromi Yoshida
Come early to sign up for Open Mic!
Hiromi Yoshida is an independent editing and writing professional, who has contributed to Bloom Magazine, Limestone Post, The Bloomingtonian, Ryder Magazine, and Video Librarian. She teaches for the Indiana Writers Center, while serving on the editorial boards for Flying Island Journal, Plath Profiles, and Gidra Magazine. She is the Literary Arts Representative for the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, and Coordinator of the Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic program for the Writers Guild at Bloomington. She is the author of Joyce & Jung: The “Four Stages of Eroticism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and her prose poems have been published in Work Literary Magazine, Indiana Voice Journal, and Beorh Weekly.
Carol Edge, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, made her way to Bloomington via Illinois, Germany, and Tennessee. Along the way, she earned a certificate in graphic arts at Nashville State Technical Institute and degrees in English and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. The constants in her life are Ron, their son Tim, and a long line of cat companions.
For more than 14 years she worked in publications at the IU Alumni Association and another few years doing publications and PR for the IU Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
After retiring from the work world, Carol finally had time to focus on writing. Her first mystery novel — Blood Terminal — is on the local authors shelf at Morgenstern’s and at the public library. She is now editing her second mystery, which she expects to publish later this year.
On Feb 5, she’ll read a couple of pieces from a “flash memoir” she began during the pandemic and, if there’s time, a short bit from Blood Terminal.