Category for Season 5 events (2017-18)
5/12/18
Featuring work from the winners of our fifth annual Stories on Stage Davis/UC Davis Fiction Contest: 1st place winner Jeanne Panfely and 2nd place winner Mackenzie Nordahl.
4/14/18
Featuring Josh Weil (author, The Age of Perpetual Light) and Michele Moore (author, The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston).
3/10/18
A night of nonfiction from Janine Kovac (author, Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home)and emerging writer Fátima Policarpo.
2/10/18
Featuring short short stories by short-short stories by NANOWRIMO Executive Director Grant Faulkner (author, Fissures), Kirstin Chen (author, Bury What We Cannot Take), Rob Davidson (author, Spectators: Flash Fictions), Laurie Ann Doyle (author, World Gone Missing), Thaisa Frank (author, Enchantment), and Robert Scotellaro (author, Bad Motel).
12/9/17
YA Night, featuring Los Angeles author Brandy Colbert and local emerging writer Shayne Langford.
11/11/17
Celebrating the publication of Assault and Buttery, the latest book in Kristi Abbott's (Eileen Rendahl) Popcorn Shop Mystery Series, as well as thrilling new work from Kris Calvin.
10/14/17
Featuring stories of immigration and wilderness from writer and translator Achy Obejas (author, The Tower of the Antilles) and Northern California author Ann Hillesland.
9/9/17
Season 5 Opening Night Gala. Best-selling author and Booker Prize finalist Karen Joy Fowler will present two writers she selected for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, Will Kaufman and Liz Ziemska.