Writ Large Press

Our author and well-loved playwright/teacher Aaron Henne will be reading at the great Tongue & Groove this coming Sunday.

Although we’ve had to push the release of his book back a bit, Aaron is one of the hardest working people in the biz.

So do come and check it out. To hear him and also to hear the other fantastic writers (I personally am very excited about hearing Evan Wright).

See you there. Click picture for better view of info.

Our next scheduled book, as you know, is playwright Aaron Henne’s You Already Know. It is a great book of writing exercises that are meant to be useful and functional for writers of all genres and of varying levels of experience. We are extremely proud of the manuscript and can’t wait to release it!

But - wait we must.

We’d originally had the book scheduled (hoped) for a end of May release, but due to various circumstances, we’ve had to delay it.

Most of it has been me (Chiwan) dropping the ball, I think, since Judeth’s been extra busy at her new teaching job, preparing and directing a middle school/high school production of Babes in Arms.

My apologies.

But, on the other hand, we know that the extra time will do nothing more than give us the opportunity to make the book absolutely perfect. Perfect, I say!

So we’ll continue to keep you in the loop regarding You Already Know.

In the meantime, enjoy this video of Chet Baker performing “My Funny Valentine” from Babes in Arms.

A writer that we are HUGE fans of will be one of the readers at Conrad Romo’s Tongue & Groove event this Sunday.

We like Andrew Choate so much that we told him we’d like to publish his next book. To our delight, he’s all for it. He’s been working on the manuscript right now.

His work is incredibly unique and we love any writer, any artist, who commits to his craft so completely.

His first book, Langquage Makes the Body Plastic, was published by Palm Press. The book comes with a CD that includes Andrew’s musical renditions.

We are very excited and we have to figure out how to do the CD and such, considering the publishing service we use.

Anyway, for a better taste of what Andrew’s about, check out this clip of him reading “Home Depot Weapon”:

History of Our Lives - by Kim Calder from Chiwan Choi on Vimeo.

This is Kim reading at Skylight Books on 4/3. It was a great night of supportive fans, book lovers, and poetry.

She read from her book, although only 1 poem from it (”sunstroke”), and also her ongoing epic masterpiece, “prison house.” To finish it off, she read two newer pieces, including the poem in the video above, “History of Our Lives.”

As some of you know, this was Kim’s final reading in Los Angeles before taking off for Prague (she got a writing fellowship - jealous!) and then, upon her return to the US, back to school for another Master’s.

The night was also meaningful for the people we met - Cati Porter, whose work I didn’t know before, but blew me away with her last two poems (the one about her dog having cancer just slayed me); Jade Shames who in charge of poetry at Skylight Books and is the one who booked the writers; and Noel Alumit.

We’ll post some more pictures in the coming days.

Please join us at Skylight Books tomorrow night as Kim Calder does her final reading before leaving Los Angeles for Prague!

We’re so excited to have a reading booked at Skylight. It is probably the major independent bookstore (along with Vroman’s in Pasadena) around Los Angeles. Which means, we need to make a GREAT SHOWING so we can have more events there in the future and sell our books there.

Kim will be reading with Cati Porter, poet and editor of Poemelon.

Full info below:

Friday, April 3rd
7:30 p.m.
Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Kim Calder & Cati Porter

It was a great turnout.

And the bookstore is beautiful. A cafe in the back. A back area with tables where people can smoke.

Karen Harryman, who was the other featured reader, was fantastic. She read from a YA novel she was working on. Check out her work.

Nice.