Stories on Stage Sacramento

This looks amazing, proof once again that some of the best things in life are, in fact, free!

Our witty, always-topical friends at 916 Ink will be partnering with us and with B Street Theater for our first production of 2021. Details coming soon!

SOSS supporters will remember Karen E. Bender, National Book Award-nominated author of short stories, novels and essays. If you are looking for an editor/writing coach, Karen is offering those services. Who *wouldn't* want to work with Karen? She is such a teacher. Here's a link to Kelley Ogden performing Bender's The Cell Phones at SOSS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKzBaylfGg And here's a link to information about working with Karen. http://karenebender.com/private-writing-instruction-coachi/

New short-story collection from SOSS 2020 author Tod Goldberg!

Here's the recording of Friday evening's amazing performances - thanks Shelley! What a night, every story, every performance, a unique gem, a facet of the myriad ways 2020 has impacted lives. https://youtu.be/2FreqSxNzUs

You still have time! We just re-opened Eventbrite sales. Otherness-Getting it Right goes 1-4 today--only $50.

NEXT SATURDAY--Want help learning how to write characters who aren't like you? Gabino knows. Sign up now!

Sue Staats about Gabino Iglesias's Coyote Songs, our pre-Halloween performance: "I have never read anything quite like our October writer’s latest barrio noir novel, Coyote Songs. It was ... mesmerizing, gory, horrifying, shocking, perplexing, disturbing, gruesome, spellbinding, thrilling, mystical, impossible, heart-stopping, ecstatic. The experience of reading it was terrifying and wonderful, like watching a horror movie where something bad has just happened and you know ...something even worse will happen, and soon, so you’ve got your hands in front of your face but you cannot stop peeking between your fingers. You just can’t stop watching. I couldn’t stop reading. "This is brilliant work..." Register for our 5 p.m. Friday night performance: https://tinyurl.com/y6fvzam2

We've got our actor to perform "Mother" in Gabino Iglesias's COYOTE SONGS--Andrea Guidry! We're so psyched about this. She's an SF-based actor doing film and voice work, but also interested in theater. In other words, she's perfect:) Register for this free event on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/y5p7qudu

We've got a brilliant new writing workshop coming your way in our last such opportunity of the year--Otherness: Get it Right. Led by the amazing Gabino Iglesias.

We read not just to feel complacent, but to be jostled, morally, intellectually, creatively. We hope you'll join us October 23 to see an excerpt of Coyote Songs performed. "Gabino Iglesias is the best kind of tour guidethe kind that offers an unvarnished glimpse, full of humanity and urgency, fear and hope intertwined, and leaves you to make up your own mind. Coyote Songs is a sparking cannon fuse, speeding toward an ending both compelling and inevitable. While the novel might not have been meant for me, I consider it essential reading, as electrifying and vital as any novel I’ve read in the past decade. It’s no wonder it’s been nominated for both a Bram Stoker Award and a Locus Award. Highly recommended."

NORCAL writers, you've got an extra two weeks to submit your 2020-themed, flash-length fiction or nonfiction--OCTOBER 31. Email any questions or your submissions to [email protected]. We'll feature some submissions in a December 11, 2020 Zoom performance and more for a 2021 anthology! #DeadlineExtended #norcalwriters #submissionsopen

#norcalwriters, are you working on your #submission for our "2020" themed performance? Here's some inspiration from the Brevity Magazine blog, which we love for all kinds of reasons. https://brevity.wordpress.com//rethinking-freewriting-in-/ Welcoming submissions of fiction/nonfiction on your interpretation or take on the theme "2020", 1000 words or less, e-mail to [email protected] by October 15 midnight! Details on our website www.storiesonstagesacramento.org

Northern California writers (and remember, a writer is someone who writes, which means everyone) 10 more days to send us up to 1000 words (fiction/nonfiction) on the theme "2020" - any topic, genre, perspective. Below are some recent words from the Atlantic Monthly - we want yours! Visit our website for more information - email subs to [email protected]

Put this on your October calendar. Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, translator, and book reviewer living in Austin, TX. His fiction has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Criminal Element, The Brooklyn Rail, Heavy Feather Review, PANK Magazine, The Collagist, and many other print and online venues. He is the book reviews editor for PANK Magazine, the TV/film editor at Entropy M...agazine, and a columnist for LitReactor and CLASH Media. In #CoyoteSongs, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. Los Angeles Review of Books says Iglesias is a master of compact phrasing and perfectly paced suspense. Register on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZ0pd-utqTMpEtwA2WNDfVBSNT5zDzWUP

We had so much fun talking to historical crime writer Erika Mailman and watching actor Nicole Berry's performance of an excerpt of The Murderer's Maid. We're proud to share it with you now.

We had so much fun talking to crime writer Erika Mailman and watching actor Nicole Berry's performance of Mailman's The Murderer's Maid. Proud to share it with you now.

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This is going to be fun (and maybe somewhat scary)--join us for a free performance of a scene from Erika Mailman's The Murderer's Maid, featuring actor Nicole Berry. THIS Friday at 5 Pacific on Zoom. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZMkdOqoqzIvE9dFGlyGgEgm74o9g0eGU