F-Bomb Returns Live Friday April 22 @ The Roxy, Hosted by Meg Tuite

The F-Bomb returns to a live venue for the first time in 2022! Join us at The Roxy on Broadway on Friday April 22 from 6-9 PM. Our host will be Meg Tuite, with featured readers Nancy Stohlman, Kona Morris, and Robert Vaughan. 4-minute open mic spots will also be available for others to share their flash fiction with the crowd. Join us in the Speakeasy space, downstairs at The Roxy!

HOST MEG TUITE’s latest collection is ‘WHITE VAN”. She is author of five story collections and five chapbooks. She won the Twin Antlers Poetry award for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging and is included in Best of Small Press 2021. She teaches writing retreats and online classes hosted by Bending Genres. She is also the fiction editor of Bending Genres and associate editor at Narrative Magazine.

FEATURED READER ROBERT VAUGHAN is an award-winning author, playwright, and teacher. His books include Microtones, Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits, Addicts & Basements, RIFT, Funhouse, and Askew. His work has been in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018) and Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019, his plays have been produced in S.F., N.Y.C., and Milwaukee. He is Editor-in-Chief of Bending Genres.

FEATURED READER NANCY STOHLMAN is an award-winning author, performer, and all-around rabble-rouser. Her book Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020)won a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and was re-released as an audiobook in 2022. Her other books include After the Rapture, (forthcoming 2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), among others. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both the stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world

FEATURED WRITER KONA MORRIS received her moral guidance from Kermit the Frog. She is from the foggy redwood hub of Humboldt County, Northern California, and she has since lived everywhere from Boston to a remote village in northern Alaska. She was co-founder and editor of Fast Forward Press, as well as the founder and writer of a satirical comic book company called Godless Comics. She has been featured as a writer and editor at literary events and conferences across the country, and her stories, prose poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of publications. Kona teaches letter regurgitation to college students in Denver.

July 21: Fbomb National Flash Fiction Festival!

A Gathering of the Flashy and Flash-Curious

The first ever FBomb National Flash Fiction Festival! No panels! No workshops! Just the biggest Fbomb flash fiction reading ever and YOU are invited. Our features and special guest are traveling from East and West Coasts to converge for one night of flash fiction in Denver! With music by Nick Busheff!

Join the Facebook Event Page here

photo 2 (1)Host Nancy Stohlman! 

Nancy Stohlman’s books include the flash fiction collection The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, the novels The Monster Opera and Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, which was a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. When she is not writing she is the lead singer of the lounge metal band Kinky Mink. Find out more about her at http://www.nancystohlman.com

PaulFeaturing Paul Beckman!  Paul Beckman collects memories and punchboards. Some publishing credits: Pank, Connotation Press, Journal of Microliterature, Litro, Boston Literary Magazine, The Connecticut Review & other fine magazines online and in print. He’s had three collections and a novella published. His latest flash story collection, Peek from Big Table Press, came out in February 2015 weighing in at 65 stories and 117 pages. It can be purchases from his published story website http://www.paulbeckmanstories.com or Amazon.

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robertFeaturing Robert Vaughan! Robert Vaughan has work published in over 500 online and print magazines.  He’s the author of three collections of poetry: Microtones (Cervena Barva Press, 2012); Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits (Deadly Chaps Press, 2013); and Addicts & Basements (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). He also edited Flash Fiction Fridays (2011), selected writings from his two year radio show on WUWM. He’s currently senior editor at JMWW and Lost in Thought magazines, and is on the Advisory Board of Literary Orphans. His awards include Micro-Fiction (2012), and Gertrude Stein Awards (2013, 2014). He is an AWP Panelist and teaches workshops in various topics like poetry, hybrid writing, and playwriting. He leads roundtables at Red Oak Writing in Milwaukee, WI.

karenFeaturing Karen Stefano! Karen Stefano is the author of the collection, The Secret Games of Words, published by 1GlimpsePress (2015). She is Fiction Editor for Connotation Press and her stories have appeared in The South Carolina Review, Tampa Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Epiphany, Lost in Thought, Metazen, Green Mountains Review, Gloom Cupboard, and elsewhere. Her story, “Seeing,” was nominated for the XXXVII Pushcart Prize.

bio photo w_ tattoo    Featuring Meg Tuite! Meg Tuite is the author of two short story collections, Bound By Blue (2013) Sententia Books and Domestic Apparition (2011) San Francisco Bay Press, three chapbooks and a poetic prose/poetry chap w/ David Tomaloff coming out in 2015. She won the Twin Antlers Collaborative Poetry award from Artistically Declined Press for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging (2014) written with Heather Fowler and Michelle Reale. She teaches at the Santa Fe Community College, is fiction editor for Santa Fe Literary Review, a featured column at Connotation Press and a column at JMWW. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband and menagerie of pets. Her blog: http://megtuite.com

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