Book Launch on 9/1 @ 6pm PST!
Join my friends from the Valley Beth Shalom Jewish Writer’s Roundtable and me on Tuesday September 1st @ 6pm PST to launch my short story collection A Place Remote (click for ordering options)
ZOOM LINK
password: launch
Meeting ID: 996 4497 7704
Additional readings and performances by members of the Roundtable. Lineup as follows:
Gwen Goodkin, excerpts from “Winnie” and “A Month of Summer”
Gwen Goodkin is the author of the short story collection, 'A Place Remote,' published by West Virginia University Press. Her stories and essays have been published by literary journals throughout the U.S. and beyond. She has won the Folio Editor's Prize for Fiction as well as the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For more information, please visit gwengoodkin.com.
Karen Bram Casady, “Diary”
Karen Bram Casady is a journalist who writes plays, short stories, and poetry. A number of her plays have been produced including two at the 2018 and 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festivals. She has two published collections of poetry. Other poems and fiction appear in several literary journals. Huzzah!
Ben Goldstein, "Linda's Cat"
Ben Goldstein is a writer from Los Angeles, whose work has appeared in The Nashville Review. A current MFA candidate at Rutgers University Newark, he works primarily in both long and short form fiction, though he has been known to occasionally write a poem.
Michael Halperin, “My Name is David: Search for Identity”
Television Writer-Producer (see imdb.com). Author: My Name is David: Search for Identity, published by Floricanto & Berkeley Presses Sept. 20. Fields of Poison: Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician; Black Wheels; Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story; Judaism: Embracing the Seeker, Editor with Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis. Plays: All Steps Necessary; Dancing with William Blake; Spark of Reason; Mela; Chestnut Trees; Freedom, Texas; Driving James Dean.
Mona Deutsch Miller, "Is That All There Is?"
Mona Deutsch Miller writes plays and screenplays in multiple genres. Two short stories and two plays have been published. She belongs to the Dramatists Guild, ALAP, LAFPI and Fierce Backbone, a theater company. Many of her plays have been produced in the Los Angeles area. She was on Jeopardy!
Michael Goldstein, Chair, Valley Beth Shalom Writer’s Roundtable
Michael Goldstein is a playwright, journalist (currently for Forbes.com) & 7-time winner of the Southern California Journalism Awards. His latest full-length play is THE HECKLER’S VETO, about free speech and its consequences on a college campus.