The Short Attention Span Storytelling Hour

This is Orlando's premier literary open mic, where writers, poets, and storytellers can take the stage and share their material with a group of supportive, positive people.

You can read an excerpt of a novel, an essay, part of a memoir, a poem (or two), a radio play, or a piece of standup you've been working on. If you're stage-shy, you can even get someone else to read your work for you.

This month's featured writer is Dizz Tate, the current writer in residence at the Kerouac House.

Tate is a fiction writer currently living in London, after growing up in Orlando. She has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, Dazed, and No Tokens Journal amongst others. She won the Bristol short story prize in 2018 and was long listed for the Sunday Times Short Story Award in 2020. Her pamphlet of stories, Nowhere to Go but Back Again, was published by Goldsmiths Press in 2019. Her first novel, Brutes, will be published by Faber and Catapult in early 2023.

[ https://www.kerouacproject.org/writers/ ]

The rest of the scoop...

• Admission is free. There is no cover charge or fee of any kind.
• Newbies or seasoned veterans are welcome. There's no experience or skill level required.
• Please keep your reading/presentation to 6- 8 minutes (or about 1,000 words). After that, we throw things. (No, really.)
• A sign-up sheet is available starting at 7:00 PMish. Mingle for a few minutes, and grab some beverages if you like. You can even get dinner or a snack.
• If you don't want to read, you don't have to — you can chill and listen and support your fellow writers.