Poetry and prose chapbooks
Monday Night held a special reading at the E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore on February 19, 2015 to celebrate issue #13 with contributors Lyndsey Ellis, Caroline Goodwin, and Alexandra Mattraw.
This year’s event was extra special, as we also bid a bittersweet farewell to our long-time print edition. Starting in 2015, Monday Night will be completely online!
Thanks everyone for attending—and thanks to E.M Wolfman Bookstore for hosting!
Cheers to Monday Night co-founder and contributor Rob Pierce (Issue 10)! His noir novel Uncle Dust is now out from All Due Respect. Joe Loya, of the critically-acclaimed memoir, The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of A Bank Robber, said: “Only a few writers entertained me with killer dialogue. I even contacted Elmore Leonard when I was paroled, told him crime writer to crime writer that he understood criminal dialogue real swell. Here’s the thing: Had I read “Uncle Dust” while I was incarcerated I would’ve got out and contacted Rob Pierce before Elmore. The story and dialogue in “Uncle Dust” captured so much of that world and circumstance in all its squalid glory. Made me wish I’d done time with tough guy Dustin. I thoroughly enjoyed our criminal hero’s mind as he observed the world, and himself, through a cynical thief’s lens. And I think you will too.” ‘Nuff said!
Monday Night editor extraordinaire, Jessica Wickens, has teamed up with fellow poet Della Watson to create Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters, a collection of poetry just released from Mission Cleaners Press. Check out the book’s tweets and promos and feel free to talk to the book yourself. Then buy it. Kudos, Jessica and Della!
Monday Night teamed up with Beeswax Magazine for a fantastico reading featuring Monday Night stars Sean Craven and Valerie Witte. Details on the DIESEL page.
Congrats to Ben Bellizzi, whose short story, “Clean, Straight Lines,” has been included in the 2011 BANRR anthology‘s Notable Reading list (click the “Notables” tab). This popular series of anthologies is edited by Dave Eggers and the students at his San Francisco writing center, and the 2011 edition is introduced by Guillermo del Toro. Bellizzi is mentioned on p. 484. Big props!
Issue 10 contributor, Annam Manthiram‘s debut, After the Tsunami, is available from the Stephen F. Austin University Press. NewPages listed this haunting tale as a “New and Noteworthy Book,” and The Albuquerque Journal praised it as “A harrowing story of youth survival.” Congrats, Annam!
In recognition of our tenth anniversary in 2011, we received this lovely write-up in our local paper, the East Bay Express. And yes, the original editors were really sitting by a fireplace on that Monday so long ago. Thanks to all our readers and writers for many years of awesome!
Marissa Bell Toffoli of Words With Writers sits down with the Monday Night editorial team for an interview. Read about what we’re reading, how we read submissions, and what we like to eat. Thanks, Marissa! And congrats on being a finalist in Adult Fiction in the GoodReads Independent Book Blogger Awards.