Johnny Pistolas Mexican Taqueria Bar
2333 18th St NW, Washington, D.C. [map]
Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 7 p.m.
Drinks & Food Available (Tacos!)
No Cover Charge
Alternating Current Press and Split Lip Press have joined forces for the ultimate #AWP17 Offsite Reading Event at Johnny Pistolas: the Electric Lip Launch! We have the whole upstairs! Come eat some tacos, drink some booze, and be merry. No cover charge. We’ll be celebrating a double book launch, with brand new releases by David Leo Rice (A Room in Dodge City, ACP) and Melissa Wiley (Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena, SLP), so come on out and snag signed copies.
FREE Electric Lip Launch rocketship buttons and bookmarks to the first 40 people in the door!
Use the hashtag #ElectricLipLaunch on social media, and please, please, share, post, retweet, whatever, whatever, our flier (below) anywhere and everywhere.
Readers include: Melissa Wiley, David Leo Rice, Jared Yates Sexton, Eric Shonkwiler, Mila Jaroniec, Kara Vernor, Katie Schmid, SJ Sindu, and Kristen Arnett. Mayhem will ensue. Fun will be had. Booze will be consumed.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
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MELISSA WILEY is the author of Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split Lip), and has had work in [PANK], Tin House Open Bar, and Great Lakes Review.
DAVID LEO RICE is the author of A Room in Dodge City (Alternating Current), winner of the Electric Book Award; and has had work in The Collagist, Hobart, and The Rumpus.
JARED YATES SEXTON is the author of An End to All Things (Atticus), The Hook and the Haymaker (Split Lip), Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman (New Pulp), and I Am the Oil of the Engine of the World (Split Lip); and Editor for BULL.
ERIC SHONKWILER is the author of Above All Men (MG), a Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Midwest-Connections Pick; Moon Up, Past Full (Alternating Current), winner of the Luminaire Award for Best Prose; and 8th Street Power & Light (MG).
MILA JARONIEC is the author of Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover (Split Lip), is Editor of drDOCTOR, and has had writing in Hobart, Joyland, and Luna Luna.
KARA VERNOR is the author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song (Split Lip), a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Estelle Frank Fellow, an Elizabeth George Foundation scholar at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, and the co-host of Get Lit.
KATIE SCHMID is the author of forget me / hit me / let me drink great quantities of clear, evil liquor (Split Lip), winner of the Turnbuckle Chapbook Prize, and an AWP Intro Journals Winner.
SJ SINDU is the author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies (Soho) and I Once Met You But You Were Dead (Split Lip), winner of the Turnbuckle Chapbook Prize.
KRISTEN ARNETT is the author of Felt in the Jaw (Split Lip), Fiction Editor at Pithead Chapel, and winner of Ninth Letter’s Literary Award in Fiction.
