112 W 6th St
Bloomington
IN 47403
Second Thursday Spoken Word and Open Mic
The Ryder’s Fiction Issue Showcase
Presented by the Writers Guild
Dedicated to Peter LoPilato, Ryder Founder and Director
Featured readers:
James Dorr, Laura Lasuertmer, Paula Sunderman
Musical Guest:
Brendan Keller
Thursday, DATE April 11, 2024
6:00-8:30 P.M.
BackSpace (in Bonne Fête) 112 W 6th st.
Come early to sign up for Open Mic!
James Dorr specializes in dark fantasy/horror, with forays into mystery and science fiction. His The Tears of Isis was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® nominee for Fiction Collection, with his most recent book, Avoid Seeing a Mouse and Other Tales of the Real and Surreal, a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha 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. For more information, Dorr invites readers to visit his blog at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com
Laura Lasuertmer is a writer, mother, gardener, and a co-founder of Common Home Farm, an interfaith community in Bloomington, Indiana. Her writing has appeared in About Place Journal, The Limestone Post, The Ryder Magazine, and the New York Catholic Worker newspaper. She works for Women Writing for (a) Change, where she facilitates creative writing classes for a variety of groups in Bloomington, including elementary students and men incarcerated in the Monroe County jail. Her favorite place to write is in front of the window looking out over the garden. You can find her writing at https://commonhomefarm.org.
Paula W. Sunderman was raised in south Texas seven miles from the border of México. She considers México her second home as she has traveled throughout the state from Monterrey to Oaxaca, including one memorable vacation touring historical sites in Yucatán. A retired Associate Professor Emerita in English and linguistics from Mississippi State University, she returned to Bloomington where she had earned her B.A. from IU. She is a docent at the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art and writes whenever she can.
Brendan Keller-Tuberg is a forward-thinking bassist, composer and educator from Canberra, Australia. Armed with comprehensive experience in contemporary music-making of all forms, Brendan writes and performs music that blurs the lines between popular and art music, combining and recontextualising innumerable genre aesthetics to create a hybridist, unclassifiable whole.