Name: End Times? The Clock Is Ticking! A Flash Fiction Collective Reading
Start: 2025-05-17T17:00:00-0700
End: 2025-05-17T18:00:00-0700

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Third Pig Bar

The Flash Fiction Collective is a San Francisco Bay Area reading series founded in 2014 by Jane Ciabattari, Grant Faulkner, and Meg Pokrass (with Kirsten Chen joining a few years later). Readers have included Rita Bullwinkel, R.O. Kwon, Susan Steinberg, Thaisa Frank, James Thomas (who has edited multiple flash anthology and coined the term "flash fiction") and dozens of others. For Litcrawl, co-founders Jane Ciabattari and Grant Faulkner will read and co-host an hour of readings of stories under 1,000 words. Seven readers, dozen of stories in an hour, all circling around the apocalyptic, the surreal, the granular and the sublime.

Speakers

Jane Ciabattari

Co-founder, Flash Fiction Collective

Jane Ciabattari is author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire (Dzanc Books rEprint Series, Iowa Short Fiction finalist). She has published dozens of short stories, some of which have been Her been honored with three Pushcart Prize special mentions, an Editor’s Choice... Read More →

Ianthe Brautigan

Ianthe Brautigan writes nonfiction, fiction, and for television. She is the author of You Can’t Catch Death and an executive producer for the motion picture, The Hawkline Monster.

Grant Faulkner

Co-founder, Memoir Nation

Grant Faulkner is the co-host of the Write-minded podcast, which is ranked as the fourth most popular podcast for writers. He’s also an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author and the co-founder of Memoir Nation, the Flash Fiction Institute, and 100 Word Story.He has... Read More →

Molly Giles

Molly Giles is the author of five award winning short story collections, two novels, and a memoir. Her flash fictions have appeared in many anthologies, including the Pushcart Prize.

Georgina Marie Guardado

Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA (2020-2024), a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. and president of the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly... Read More →

Britta Stromeyer

Britta Stromeyer's writing appears in Flash Fiction Magazine, Bending Genres Journal, Necessary Fiction, On The Seawall, Marin Independent Journal and other publications. Britta has authored award-winning children’s books & was a finalist for the Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award... Read More →

Kara Vernor

Kara Vernor’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and her writing has... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Third Pig Bar 116 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Resistance in the End Times

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