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Past Readings:

Saturday 17 August 2019 | Grand Lake, Colorado with Rendezvous in the Rockies | Private. First reading of “Ball Lightning,” which was written during the retreat. Editor in audience bought it on the spot. More info to come, and more photos available on my FB Author Page.

Author A.E. Weisgerber, Grand Lake, Colorado 17 Aug 2019. Photo Credit: Chelsea Stickle

Friday 2 August 2019 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman | KGB Red Room Literary Reading Space | 85 E 4th Street | New York City

Michelle Elvy

Paul Beckman

A. E. Weisgerber

Gessy Alvarez

Luke Salisbury

Randall Ringer

Craig Fishbane

Ron Brawer

The 8/2/19 FBomb Crew

Sunday 24 March 2019 | Spoken Word Sundays with Great Weather for Media | The Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston Street, NYC 4 – 6 PM

Featured reader, along with Lynn McGee. Hosted by Billy Cancel.

Friday 1 March 2019 | F-Bomb NYC | Guest-hosted by Francine Witte @ KGB Red Room

Featured readers:

Dorothy Cantwell 1 March 2019 FBomb NYC

A. E. Weisgerber 1 March 2019 FBomb NYC

David Huberman 1 March 2019 FBomb NYC

Annie Bien 1 March 2019 FBomb NYC

Ron Kolm 1 March 2019 FBomb NYC

• Annie Bien
• Ron Kolm
• David Huberman
• Dorothy Cantwell
• A. E. Weisgerber

Spotlight readers:

Susan Weiman 1 March 2018 FBomb NYC

Patricia Carragon 1 March 2018 FBomb NYC

Linda Lerner 1 March 2018 FBomb NYC

Jennifer Juneau 1 March 2018 FBomb NYC

Austin Alexis 1 March 2018 FBomb NYC

• Jennifer Juneau
• Austin Alexis
• Linda Lerner
• Susan Weiman
• Patricia Carragon

A. E. Weisgerber, Ron Kolm, Amy Barone 3/1/2019 FBomb NYC Flash Fiction Reading Series.

Francine Witte 3/1/2019 FBomb NYC Flash Fiction Reading Series. Photo Credit: A.E. Weisgerber.

13 November 2018 | great weather for MEDIA: Suitcase of Chrysanthemums Anthology | Hosted by GW4M at KGB Bar Literary Reading Space, 85 E 4th St, NYC

• Amy Barone

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  great weather for MEDIA: Suitcase of Chrysanthemums

• Mersidy Florexile,
• Jennifer Juneau,
• Jane LeCroy,
• Sophie Malleret,
• Anwar Morse,
• stephanie roberts, and
• A.E. Weisgerber
• • “Graft”
• • “Stirrup”
• • “Waters of March”
• • “Torquatus”

Photos from the 13 November 2018 Great Weather for Media launch celebration reading for Suitcase of Chrysanthemums.

Scene of the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Paul Weisgerber

George Wallace at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Jennifer Juneau at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Amy Barone at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Anwar Morse at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Mersidy Florexile at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

A.E. Weisgerber at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Paul Weisgerber.

Sophie Malleret at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Stephanie Roberts at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.

Jane Lecroy at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber.jpg

The editorial board: George Wallace, David Lawton, Jane Omerod, and Thomas Fulcalora at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber

The editorial board: George Wallace, David Lawton, Jane Omerod, and Thomas Fulcalora at the Great Weather for Media reading 13 November 2018 kgbbar.com Photo by Anne Weisgerber

Friday 2 November 2018 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room

• Robert Vaughan
• Meg Tuite
• Len Kuntz
• Karen Stefano
• A. E. Weisgerber
• Paul Beckman

14 August 2018 | The F-Bomb Flash Reading Fiction Series, 7:30PM, Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, Denver, CO | Hosted by David Atkinson

More information available on the Facebook Events Page.

Featured reader: Natanya Ann Pulley

Guest readers: April Bradley, Jayne Martin, A. E. Weisgerber, Chelsea Voulgares, Nancy Stohlman, Hillary Leftwich, Paul Beckman

Tuesday 26 June 2018 | St. Mary’s College of Maryland | Chesapeake Bay Writers

Once home to the poet Lucille Clifton, this beautiful campus known for its sunsets is dotted with Clifton’s post-9/11 poetry. The perfect place to present “Upfurler,” which persists as my favorite story to read.

Friday 1 June 2018 | Launch Party for Kiss Kiss by Paul Beckman | NYC @KGB Red Room

This was a great night reading — beside celebrating the publication of my good friend Paul’s new flash fiction collection, he invited a group of writers to select a favorite story of his to read, and then opened the mic for readers to read their own work! The reading kicked off with a spotlight on three readers in particular, Devin Kelly, Niles Reddick, and Leonora Desar.

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Paul is an all-around champion of the short-short story, and is the emcee at large and in charge of the East Coast FBomb Flash Fiction Reading Series, a series that began in Denver with Nancy Stohlman. Kiss Kiss is out now from Truth Serum Press, and you can learn more about it at this link. Fellow reader, Niles Reddick, also had written a review of it at the MBR Reviewers Bookwatch, which includes this astute summary:

From a dentist with no eyebrows in “Dean’s Dilemma” to “Floaters” that recounts the reality of someone who has those annoying black dots in his eyes, Beckman offers us slice after slice of the good and bad of humanity. Each story is realistic and believable even when it might be a stretch in reality like in “Wallflower Solution” when a wife gives her husband a crib sheet at parties to use since he’s an introvert and in “Epilogue” where two daughters who the parents thought had been abducted reappear after five years, having been living it up with a couple of truckers in their mobile homes.

Paul’s stories are at turns entertaining and heartbreaking, but always delightful. Another review, by Craig Fishbane, can be found at Bending Genres. Here’s a link!

So, here’s a report on the reading. Reddick quickly established himself as everyone’s favorite visiting Tennessean. This was Niles’s first visit to NYC with his family, and it was so much fun to share in their delights! Rather than read from a book, he did his storytelling old school and without a script, and I’ll never forget the story of the grandmother accidentally put naked in a cardboard box before being driven by a family member 8 hours to her own wake. Strangely, that was not fiction. LOL. Niles is right, sometimes the real work of fiction is “toning down” real life!

After those three writers, there was a BARRAGE of BECKMAN, as one after another, writers took the stage to read one of Paul’s gems. Kind of a Roman candle of readings. Pow pow pow! Following, Paul invited everyone to come back up and read a few of their own. Paul even had 20 pizzas delivered to the bar! So we took a pizza break about midway, and got a chance to mingle and laugh. Just wonderful. Here is a list of readers, and I always note what stories I read, too, just so I can look here to remember.

• • • • • Niles Reddick
• • • • • Devin Kelly
• • • • • Leonora Desar
• • • • • Jennifer Juneau
• • • • • Francine Witte
• • • • • Sandra Beckman
• • • • • A.E. Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Goodbye Already” from Kiss Kiss by Paul Beckman
• • • • • • “Knoxville” by A.E. Weisgerber, forthcoming in the 2018 anthology National Flash Fiction Day: Ripening
• • • • • • “Torquatus” by A.E. Weisgerber, forthcoming in Great Weather for MEDIA’s 2018 anthology
• • • • • Brian Zimbler
• • • • • Craig Fishbane
• • • • • Nancy Ludmerer
• • • • • Joshua Beckman
• • • • • Mathieu Cailler
• • • • • Susan Weiman

The FBOMB NYC Flash Fiction Reading Series is hosted by Beckman on the first Friday of every month, as the fabled KGB Red Room Literary Reading Space, 85 E 4th St, NYC. Come on out and join in hearing some of the greatest readings of short fiction and poetry! It’s a great night in a great space. <3

Friday 2 February 2018 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room

• • • • • Madeline Artenberg

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• • • • • Gessy Alvarez
• • • • • Nancy Ludmerer
• • • • • Alison McBain
• • • • • Courtney Sender
• • • • • Francine Witte
• • • • • A.E. Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Theseus in Belleville”
• • • • • • “Stirrup”
• • • • • • “Love”
• • • • • • “Moiety”
• • • • • • “Proto-Indo-European”
• • • • • • “Upfurler”

Friday 6 October 2017 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room

• • • • • Peg Alford Pursell

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• • • • • Laurie Stone
• • • • • Tina Barry
• • • • • Michael Keith
• • • • • Sarah Erskine
• • • • • Jan Elman Stout
• • • • • A.E. Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Orphan”
• • • • • • “Moi, Je Suis la Porte”
• • • • • • “Graft”
• • • • • • “Stirrup”
• • • • • • “Charivari”

Friday 4 August 2017 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room, 85 E 4th, East Village NYC

• • • • • Yvonne Conza,
• • • • • Francine Witte,
• • • • • Julie Turley,
• • • • • Randall Brown
• • • • • Katie Rainey,
• • • • • Paul Beckman,
• • • • • Anne Weisgerber,
• • • • • • “Upfurler”
• • • • • • “Graft”
• • • • • • “Stirrup”
• • • • • • “Charivari”
• • • • • • “Summer Baby”
• • • • • Jennifer Juneau

Tuesday 27 June 2017 | The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching |Hosted by Dawn Potter and Kerrin McCadden @ The Henry Holt Barn, Franconia, NH

First reading of “Stirrup”

Friday 7 April 2017 | F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room, 85 E 4th, East Village NYC

• • • • • Peter Cherches
• • • • • Peter Wortsman
• • • • • Anne Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Upfurler”
• • • • • • “Fantastic Fabrics”
• • • • • • “Controlled Delivery”
• • • • • Julie Turley
• • • • • Eliel Lucero
• • • • • Devin Kelly
• • • • • Craig Fishbane

Friday 22 March 2017 | FLAPPERHOUSE #13 Launch Party | Hosted by Joe O’Brien @ Pacific Standard, Brooklyn NYC

• • • • • Gregory Crosby
• • • • • Lisa Marie Basile
• • • • • Michael Diaz Fieto
• • • • • Anne Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Upfurler”
• • • • • • “Orphan”
• • • • • • “Picnic”
• • • • • Kurt Cobain
• • • • • Adam Tedesco
• • • • • Abigail Welhouse

Friday 6 January 2017| F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room, 85 E 4th, East Village NYC

• • • • • Karen Levy,
• • • • • Courtney Sender,
• • • • • Eliel Lucero
• • • • • Anne Weisgerber,
• • • • • • “Upfurler”
• • • • • • “Orphan”
• • • • • • “Theseus in Belleville”
• • • • • • “Summer Baby”
• • • • • Iris Schwartz
• • • • • Jan Elman Stout
• • • • • Devin Kelly

Saturday 22 October 2017 | BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2016 | Hosted by Paul Beckman @ KGB Red Room, East Village NYC

• • • • • Eliel Lucero
• • • • • Dawn Raffell
• • • • • Britt Haraway
• • • • • Courtney Sender
• • • • • Robert Vaughan
• • • • • Tina Barry
• • • • • Nancy Ludmerer
• • • • • Dianca London Potts
• • • • • Ilana Massad
• • • • • Anne Weisgerber
• • • • • • “Sleeping Beauty, Markson Fangirl”

Friday 9 September 2017 | FIRST F-Bomb NYC | Hosted by Paul Beckman, Bud Smith, Nancy Stohlman @ KGB Red Room, East Village NYC

• • • • Bud Smith,

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• • • • Nancy Stohlman,
• • • • Alice Kaltman,
• • • • Loren Kleinman
• • • • Jane Liddle,
• • • • Chuck Howe,
• • • • Sara Lippmann,
• • • • Gessy Alvarez,
• • • • Anne Weisgerber
• • • • • “Upfurler”
• • • • • “Summer Baby”
• • • • Jan Elman Stout
• • • • Jolene McIlwaine
• • • • Paul Beckman

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