Join us for the Trumpet Fiction reading series,\u00a0
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Sophie Jaff, Kirsten Major, and Roberta Allen<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
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Trumpet Fiction Kicks Off Its 19th Season!<\/h3>\n
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 7-9\u00a0p.m.<\/h3>\n
KGB BAR – ADMISSION FREE<\/strong><\/p>\n
85 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Ave)<\/p>\n
Bar opens 6:30 pm–seats fill up fast!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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That’s right–TF will turn 19 years old officially in April 2018, but the kickoff of our new season begins on October 14! Experience one of the longest-running reading series in the city and listen to fiction excerpts from 3 authors you’ll want to get to know better:<\/p>\n
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ROBERTA ALLEN.<\/strong> A short story writer, novelist and memoirist, Roberta is the author of nine books. Her latest is the story collection The Princess of Herself<\/em> (Pelekinesis Press). Over 300 of her stories have been published in such magazines as Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail<\/em> and The Collagist<\/em>, among many others. She is also a conceptual artist in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum.\u00a0www.robertaallen.com<\/a><\/p>\n
SOPHIE JAFF.<\/strong> A native of South Africa, Sophie Jaff is a Dramatist Guild Fellow and the author of LOVE IS RED; Book One in the Nightsong Trilogy<\/em> (HarperCollins May 2015), which was favorably reviewed in the New York Times and has since been published in several languages. Her new book CROWN OF STARS; Book Two in the Nightsong Trilogy<\/em> was published June 6th. She is currently working on a series of essays and two librettos involving murder and \u2018objectum sexuality\u2019 because that\u2019s how she rolls. She lives in New York with her amazing husband and awesome toddler who will soon take over the world. And not a moment too soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
KIRSTEN MAJOR<\/strong> was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently lives in New York City. She received an MFA from the Writing Program at Cornell University and has had essays and fiction published in No Tokens, Crannog, LitBreak, Entropy Magazine<\/em> and\u00a0BodegaMag.com<\/a>, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n
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