We're back again for Volume 4! Wednesday September 18th from 7-9PM at Chapman Crafted Beer in Orange!

This time, it's my absolute pleasure to bring you the wonderful, intelligent, talented, and kind Liz Windhorst Harmer!

Liz Harmer has won fellowships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and her stories and essays have been published widely. In 2014, she won a National Magazine Award in Canada in Personal Journalism and was shortlisted for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 2018, she was a finalist for the Journey Prize as well as being included in Best Canadian Stories. Her debut novel, The Amateurs, was a Knopf New Face of Fiction and was, this year, a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. She and her family moved from near Toronto to Southern California five years ago.

Liz recently finished Chapman's MFA program, and it was such a gift getting to know her and be inspired by her and witness her journey through the publication and promotion process. Her book THE AMATEURS was picked up just before her first semester at Chapman began. While it was released in Canada in 2018, it finally hit North American shelves earlier this year. THE AMATEURS creates a world rich with mystery and nuanced characters begging to be developed into a miniseries for television. There is much to be explored in this book, and I hope you all pick up a copy and read it before she comes to Chapman Crafted in September. If not, copies will be available for sale at Write to Read!

Event is free to the public.
Book and merch for sale on site.
Open Mic starts at 7pm. If interested in reading, email us at anastamos.cu@gmail.com. Please send a sample of the work you plan on reading. Readers will be given approximately 5 minutes to share their work.