Stories on Stage Sacramento

Author Gabino Iglesias and
Performer Andrea Guidry

October 23, 2020, 5:00 pm performance - live via Zoom

October 24, 2020, 1:00 to 4:00 pm, writing workshop with Gabino Iglesias
(scroll down for workshop details)

Stories on Stage Sacramento is proud to feature Barrio Noir author, Gabino Iglesias. An excerpt from his novel Coyote Songs, "Mother," will be performed by actor Andrea Guidry. Donation/tickets available on Eventbrite.

Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, journalist, and book reviewer living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of the novels Coyote Songs and Zero Saints (both from Broken River Books), and Gutmouth (Eraserhead Press). Iglesias is the book reviews editor at PANK Magazine, the TV/film editor at Entropy Magazine, and a columnist for LitReactor and CLASH Media. His nonfiction has appeared in places like The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the LA Times, El Nuevo Día, and other venues. His fiction has been published in places like Red Fez, Flash Fiction Offensive, Drunk Monkeys, Bizarro Central, Paragraph Line, Divergent Magazine, Cease, Cows, and many horror, crime, surrealist, and bizarro anthologies. His reviews are published in places like NPR, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Criminal Element, The Rumpus, Heavy Feather Review, Atticus Review, Entropy, HorrorTalk, Necessary Fiction, Crimespree, and other print and online venues. He teaches at Southern New Hampshire University's MFA program. You can find him on Twitter at @Gabino_Iglesias. (Find more information on the Stories on Stage Sacramento blog.)

In his second novel, Coyote Songs, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father.These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling, pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.

Andrea Guidry is a Bay Area-based actor and voice-over artist. She recently starred in the short film Gamers and will appear in the upcoming indie film Signal to Noise. Though most of her work these days is on-camera, her first love will always be live theatre, and she’s honored to perform with Stories on Stage Sacramento.

A fan of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, speculative and “weird” fiction, Andrea says, "I lovet he imagination that these authors have to go to places I would never consider. That’s what really drew me into (Iglesias’s) story. These books twist my brain in a kind of exercise I don’t otherwise get throughout the day. Weirdness and horror and fantastical elements usually serve as a lens by which we can examine all the horrible things that exist in our society. It’s a way to look at the economic divide, the class divide, racism, sexism...All of these huge, messy, very real and visceral problems can be examined through a story that, on the surface, has nothing to do with the everyday world we live in, but, when done well, can lead to some really good introspection." (Learn more about Andrea on the Stories on Stage Sacramento blog)

Join Stories on Stage Sacramento for our last online creative writing workshop of the year, Saturday, October 24, 1-4 pm (PST), cost $50.

Register on Eventbrite for this three-hour October 24 writing workshop (live via Zoom) with author, editor, journalist, reviewer and teacher Gabino Iglesias, on the topic of how to write the Other, right. He’ll share strategies, give a practice prompt and make time for questions and answers. Explore otherness in fiction with Gabino Iglesias!

DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Submissions - Send us your words by October 31!

A special submission call from Stories on Stage Sacramento, to commemorate a year that continues to challenge, terrify, compel and incite, and to fan our worst fears and most ardent hopes, for the planet and humanity, and for the abiding power of words to bear witness.

We want your stories - whether they be big, small, sweeping, best viewed under a microscope, dystopian, whimsical, horrific, hopeful, quiet, ear-shattering, etc. You wrote it? We want to read it.

Seeking prose (fiction or nonfiction) on your interpretation of the theme, “2020”
Northern California writers, students strongly encouraged to submit
October 31 deadline - 1000 words or less
Previously unpublished, or author has full rights
Selections will be made by the SOSS Board members

Send your subs to storiesonstage916@gmail.com with title and “anthology submission,” in the subject line.

Up to 5 pieces from Northern California writers will be selected for a virtual performance December 11 at 5:00 pm. Additional pieces will be included in a published compilation of themed fiction and nonfiction. Selected authors will be compensated with a copy of the anthology. Additional copies will be available for purchase. Sale proceeds that exceed production costs will fund Stories on Stage Sacramento’s 2021 season and allow us to bring more great authors and actors to the (hopefully live!) stage.

✒️ HIT SUBMIT!! We want to read your words on the theme “2020”
e-mail Stories on Stage with any questions

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