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When:
October 30, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
2022-10-30T11:00:00-04:00
2022-10-30T12:15:00-04:00
Where:
Monroe County Convention Center in the Rogers room
LAST SUNDAY POETRY READING & OPEN MIC
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
featuring James Dorr, Richard Durisen
Followed by an Open Mic
James Dorr is a short story writer and poet specializing in dark fantasy and horror, with forays into mystery and science fiction. His The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior
Achievement in a Fiction Collection, while other books include Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance, Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, and his all poetry Vamps (A Retrospective), along with his latest, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician. He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.
Achievement in a Fiction Collection, while other books include Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance, Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, and his all poetry Vamps (A Retrospective), along with his latest, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician. He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.
Richard Durisen is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Indiana University Bloomington with over 100 refereed scientific publications. He has published flash pieces by 713 Flash, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and Disturbed Digest. Longer stories have appeared in the July 2014 issue of The Ryder; an anthology titled Into Darkness Peering (Alban Lake Press); and “Witches,” the first annual special issue of Weirdbook. His poems have appeared in Disturbed Digest, Illumen, FrostFire Worlds, Space and Time, and Poetry Quarterly. He is an active member of Our Writing League, a local Bloomington writers group, and has given public readings of poetry and fiction in Bloomington and elsewhere.The Writers Guild at Bloomington is committed to diversity, equity and inclusivity
Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic