I have room for 1-2 more readers, if you're interested, send bio and 6 minute writing sample to rachelkramerbussel at gmail.com with Quickies in the subject line. This is the last Quickies EVER, don't miss it!
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Baked by Melissa cupcakes and HOT readers!
FREE for you on Friday!
October 2, 7:30-8:30
QUICKIES: SHORT EROTICAThe final Quickies, in which readers have 6 minutes to wow the audience. Featuring
Mark Becker, John Bredin, Jamie Peck,, and
Diana Vilibert. Hosted by
Rachel Kramer Bussel (
Bottoms Up, Spanked, The Mile High Club). Free cupcakes from
Baked by Melissa. AT HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 BROOME STREET, NYC
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey or F/V to 2nd Avenue,
http://www.happyendinglounge.com)
Between Forsyth & Eldridge. Look for the hot pink awning that says "XIE HE Health Club."
Admission: Free, 21+ only
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676
http://www.inthefleshreadingseries.comMark Becker was born in Montreal and raised in New York and California. His first success as a writer came as a freshman at the University of Denver when he won an essay contest and had his work published in the school's freshman English textbook. He now writes and acts for the sketch comedy troupe Camp Wayne, which performs every month at the Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan. Mark enjoys playing tennis, riding his bicycle, and people watching in this wonderful city.
John Bredin is a teacher, writer, and activist who is currently a Professor of English at CUNY's Inwood/ Washington Heights campus. His book
SLURP: Sex Life Under Reconstruction Project--currently being serialized by Oysters & Chocolate--is equal parts humorous and scholarly. It also proposes a radical new erotic theory to expand safe sexual pleasure in the world. John's essays and stories have appeared in
The Filipino Express, The Hudson Current, Slow Trains, Clean Sheets, and
The Brooklyn Rail.
Rachel Kramer Bussel is an author, editor, blogger and reading series host. She is Senior Editor at
Penthouse Variations and a former sex columnist for
The Village Voice. She’s edited numerous anthologies, two of which (
Up All Night and
Glamour Girls) have been Lambda Literary Award finalists, most recently
The Mile High Club: Plane Sex Stories, Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories, Best Sex Writing 2009, Tasting Him, Tasting Her, and
Spanked. Her writing been published in publications such as Clean Sheets,
Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Fresh Yarn, Huffington Post, Mediabistro,
Newsday, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Tango, The Village Voice, and
Time Out New York, and in over 100 anthologies, including
Best American Erotica 2004 and
2006. She has hosted In The Flesh since October 2005.
www.rachelkramerbussel.comJamie Peck is a freelance writer currently living and working in Brooklyn. She attended Columbia University, where she studied English, art history, and creative writing, wrote for the humor paper and the regular paper, and helped start Columbia's first student produced sexuality 'zine,
Outlet. She has written for publications including Suicidegirls,
The L Magazine, Impose Magazine, Citysearch,
The New York Press, and
Vice. She also enjoys bike riding, 80's prom dresses, awkward dancing, tinkering with recipes, drinking wine on her roof, and throwing house parties.
Diana Vilibert (
www.diana-vilibert.com) is the web editor at Marie Claire, where she gets on her soapbox regularly to write about sex and dating for marieclaire.com. Her work has also appeared in CosmoGIRL!, nerve.com, thefrisky.com, and various other dot-coms. You can follow her quarter-life crisis at
diana-vilibert.tumblr.com.
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