Local Lit @Lotta
On Tuesday, December 3rd, two New Haven area authors will read new work-in-progress for a live audience in Westville. Following each reading, event facilitator and local author Rebekah Fraser will lead a discussion with the audience. The event is part of the bi-monthly reading and talk-back series, Local Lit @ LOTTA, now in its second year. Local Lit @ LOTTA welcomes Shelley Stoehr to the stage for the third time. The author of the first YA novel about self-injury, Crosses (1991), Stoehr is an MFA candidate and adjunct English instructor at Southern Connecticut State University. Her work has appeared in The North American Review, The Gordian Review, and ImageOutWrite. She received honorable mentions in the 2017 Writer's Digest Annual Competition and in the 2019 NAM Hearst Poetry Prize and was a runner-up in WOW! Women on Writing's flash fiction contest (2017). She will read a short work of magical realism, titled, Wings. Lary Bloom’s most recent book is the biography, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, published this year and now in its second printing by Wesleyan University Press. In all, he is the author or coauthor of ten books, including Letters from Nuremberg, The Test of Our Times, Lary Bloom’s Connecticut Notebook, The Writer Within and The Ignorant Maestro. As a book doctor, he helped many writers publish. Bloom teaches memoir in Yale’s Writers Workshop. He is also a playwright and lyricist, plays piano acceptably and, for peace of mind in these days of political turmoil, has limited his CNN watching to 23 hours per day. He lives in East Rock with his wife, the poet Suzanne Levine. He will read The Warehouse of Good Intentions: a memoir of war and remembrance. Local Lit @ LOTTA will occur Tuesday, December 3rd at 7 PM on The Range at LOTTA Studio, 911 Whalley Avenue, New Haven 06515. Friendly banter, sharp stories, and plenty of refreshments are provided. A suggested donation of $5-10 dollars helps maintain the series as a thread in the tapestry of arts events in New Haven. Submissions are rolling, and guidelines for 2020 events can be found at LocalLitAtLOTTA.com