Emerge Gallery, 228 Main St, Saugerties, NY 12477

READ OUT
A series from Shout Out Saugerties about writers and the spoken word

Jackalops and Unicorns: inventive fictions

Featured Readers + open mic 

With Jan Alexander, Guy Reed and Peter Vinogradov

Open mic follows the featured readers and welcomes the first 3 writers to sign up for a spot (5 minute maximum). Sign up sheet will be available at 5:45pm.

Jan Alexander is the author of the novel Getting to Lamma and co-author of the non-fiction book Bad Girls of the Silver Screen. Her short fiction has appeared in 34th Parallel, Everyday Fiction, Neworld Review, and Silver Birch Press. She will read from Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization, a Leapfrog Fiction Prize semi-finalist, scheduled for release in September with Regal House Publishing. It’sa soft-sci-fi techno fantasy incorporating magical realism and myth with political satire.

Guy Reed is author of two poetry collections, The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press) and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press 2019). He’s published and read short prose works on the podcast, The Strange Recital (thestrangerecital.com). A native of Minnesota, Guy’s lived in California, Oregon and has resided in the Catskill Mountains for the last 20 years with his family.

Peter Vinogradov is a writer and standup comedian from the Hudson Valley. He grew up during the "Satanic Panic” of the 1980’s, the son of an Orthodox priest whose bibles and theology books always shared shelf space with Tolkien's Silmarillion. He has played Dungeons and Dragons for over 30 years, and is working on a fantasy series he describes as "Tolkien meets Byzantine”.