Exquisite Corpse
On April 29, we celebrated the launch of issue 12 at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. There was an Exquisite Corpse reading from Slice contributors. This is a game in which one person writes a portion of a story and the next person receives only the final line. The second writer continues the tale with no knowledge of what came before. Then this writer’s last line is passed on to the next person, and so on. We offered a theme of Obsession, but beyond that, who knew what strange turns this story would take. If you missed the event, here’s your chance to check out what happened.
Exquisite Corpse contributions from…
Emily Bass
Tom Hardej (Proxy: Maria Gagliano)
Mai Nardone
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazine and has done comic script writing for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Exquisite Corpse photography by Nikki Van Noy (www.nikkivannoy.com)
In the Telling artwork by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)
Liz Mathews
The latest installment of our weekly podcast series features a reading from Liz Mathews. Mathews curates Encounters in Publishing: Musings & Banter on Working in Publishing. The series features essays from publishing professionals. Click here to listen to Mathews read about a breakfast expedition before work.
Liz Mathews composes ads for many things science fiction and fantasy. Her writing can be found in magazines, catalogs, newspapers, brochures, and books; and on bookmarks, postcards, cable television commercials, and even doorhangers all across the United States and in some parts of Canada. She lives in Brooklyn but considers the cornfields of Iowa home.
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazineand has done comic scriptwriting for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Music in this podcast:
OLMPROJECT – clarino
Kevin MacLeod – Hidden Agenda
Artistes d’Origine in Controlee – My President
Artwork by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)
Joshua Bodwell
The latest installment of our weekly podcast series features a reading from Joshua Bodwell. Click here to listen to Joshua read an excerpt from his story “What Is Stolen Can Never Be Returned,” which appears in Issue 12 of Slice.
Joshua Bodwell is the executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and co-founder of the arts organization Engine. His work as a journalist has garnered awards from the Maine and New England press associations. Joshua is a regular contributor to Poets & Writers magazine and a contributing editor at the online journal Fiction Writers Review. His fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines and quarterlies across the United States and Europe.
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazineand has done comic scriptwriting for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Author photo by Irvin Serrano (www.irvinserrano.com)
Artwork by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)
Steven Wingate
The latest installment of our weekly podcast series features a reading from Steven Wingate. Click here to listen to Steven read from his story “Twelve Letters to My Assassin,” which appears in Issue 12 of Slice.
Steven Wingate’s debut short story collection, Wifeshopping, won the Bakeless Prize in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. His prose poem collection Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations is forthcoming from WordTech Communications/CW Books. He is proud to say that this is his second story in Slice—the first was in issue three. He is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review and an assistant professor at South Dakota State University, where he directs the Great Plains Writers’ Conference.
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazineand has done comic scriptwriting for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Music in the podcast:
Phil Rey – Born to Conquer
HiGhMaS – Find a Serenity
Missing Host Band – Confused
Author photo: Jennifer Wingate
Artwork by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)
David Ellis Dickerson
The latest installment of our weekly podcast series features a reading from David Ellis Dickerson. Click here to listen to David read “For the Love of Words,” which also appears in Issue 12: Obsession.
David Ellis Dickerson is a former greeting card writer and a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life, where he often talks about his conservative religious upbringing. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Gettysburg Review, and the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. His Hallmark memoir, House of Cards, was published by Riverhead in 2009. He lives in Tucson. Find out more about David here: http://davidellisdickerson.wordpress.com/.
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazineand has done comic scriptwriting for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Music featured in this podcast:
EHMA – Pizzicato
Steve Clark – All the Pretty Girls
Mark Van den Borre – Phantasia in A minor
Author photo by Halley Wolowiec
Header illustration by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)
Todd Colby
The latest installment of our weekly podcast series features a reading from Todd Colby. Click here to listen to Todd read a selection of poetry, some of which appears in Issue 12: Obsession.
Todd Colby has written four books of poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Press. Colby’s poems have been read on NPR for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Colby has given readings at The Poetry Project, The Rubin Museum, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Brooklyn Public Library, Cornell University, The Kingston Writers’ Conference, The Whitney Museum of American Art, PS 122, and more. He posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.
Series curator Tim Mucci has been published by Slice magazineand has done comic scriptwriting for both Dark Horse Comics and Sterling Publishing’s All-Action Classics series. He knows about UFOs, dragons, the occult and other stuff and is excited to be talking about Clark Ashton Smith on his other podcast The Double Shadow. He lives in Brooklyn with his artist wife and cat (not an artist); you can send him donuts via his twitter account: @timx13.
Music featured in this podcast:
Antony Raijekov – Ambient M
David Schombert – Earth
Author photo by Brian Ferry
Header illustration by Andrea Sparacio (www.artsparrow.com)