Full Blue Moon Dementia

This course will focus on the use of literary devices in nonfiction. There will be four lectures, and we will discuss one topic each week. Students will submit a short work of nonfiction/memoir at the beginning of the course. Then over the next four weeks they will revisit their original submissions and revise them using...

A Punk Hostage Press Reading Beast Crawl Literary Festival 3rd Leg: 7pm The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, California Featuring: Jack Grisham lead singer for the punk bands T.S.O.L., Vicious Circle, the Joykiller, Tender Fury, Manic Low, and Cathedral of Tears; and the author of An American Demon, The Pulse of the World, A...

I’ll be reading from Anarchy At The Circle K for “Write to Read” (a monthly reading series brought to you by Chapman University and the brainchild of Matt Goldman). Monday, May 29th. 7pm. Chapman Crafted, 123 N Cypress St, Orange, CA 92866. Books will be on sale. Great event. Great readers. Big thanks to Matt...

The above photo is of all the authors, performers, and presenters for Library Girl + Punk Hostage Press‘s “A Nail Won’t Fix a Broken Heart” (February 11th, 2024), celebrating the 12 Year Anniversary of Punk Hostage Press (founded by Iris Berry + A. Razor) and dedicated to Mike Martt (RIP). It was an epic reading,...

Holy shit, where do I even begin? This year has been a whirlwind-twilight-zone-time-warp; moving slower than Trump getting convicted, while simultaneously faster than the current rising tide of fascism. Mercifully these last few weeks have been meandering somewhere in between. As winter Solstice came and went to little fanfare, that hyper-commercialized Christian abomination (hijacked from...

Merry Grishmas – 12/15 at 6pm – A Book Event with local authors, including Jack Grisham & Keith Morris An evening of literary mayhem; reading, signing, taking pictures. We’ll have an Adult photo op with Santa’s most dangerous helper,photographer John Gilhooley will be setting up a trunk show of amazing Southern CA photography, there will...

Are You Talkin’ To Me? The How and Why, and the Do and Don’ts for Dialogue in Creative Nonfiction Memoir SCAN QR CODE FOR LINK Online LIVE Webinar / $25Saturday November 11, 202312:00 pm (Pacific Time) / 3:00 pm (Eastern Time) Does your dialogue suck? So did mine when I first started. It was stiff,...

Or, more about me than you’ve ever wanted to know… I’ve been busy promoting my newest memoir, Anarchy At The Circle K, and the results are there’s a shit ton of interviews on podcasts, print zines, online journals, and even a few radio shows were interested in what I had to say. Basically I just...

Another year bites the dust. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was warm in bed, safe from a deluge of rain, as the rest of California flooded and slid away. While visions of the impending doom of a fascist takeover of America danced in my head, nothing is as it was before. I cannot...