True Story #17 is Coming Your Way in October.

Friday, Oct. 19th. 

8:00 pm at Kavarna.

You.

And...three solid readers:

Jamie GUMBRECHT

Jamie Gumbrecht is a journalist at CNN.com. She’s worked for newspapers in Detroit, Atlanta and Lexington, Kentucky and has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College. She lives in Atlanta’s Reynoldstown neighborhood with her husband, Jay, and three absurdly adorable pit bulls.

Rachael MADDUX

Rachael Maddux is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Believer, The Hairpin, The Paris Review's Daily blog, and elsewhere. She used to be an editor at Paste and now she's an editor at the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. She likes tacos, bad movies and car rides, and she lives in Decatur, Ga. with her husband Joe.

Wyatt WILLIAMS

Wyatt Williams' writing has appeared in the Literary Review, HTMLGiant, Fanzine, Creative Loafing, Nylon, and elsewhere. He worked on two oral history volumes, Underground America and Out of Exile, published by McSweeney’s. Earlier this year, he received an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Award for arts feature writing. He currently serves as the deputy food editor at Atlanta magazine. He feels a little funny about this "truth" business.    

Friday, Aug. 17th is True Story #16!

...and we've got an unprecedented four rogue readers and nervy journalists to share true tales and artifacts from their past!

Melissa Fay Greene
author of No Biking in the House Without a Helmet, There is No Me Without You, Praying for Sheetrock, and Last Man Out

Thomas Lake
Sports Illustrated, Atlanta Magazine and more

Johnny Drago
Playwright, writer, performer, and, we hear, "livestock enthusiast"

Brian Bannon
Writer, comedian and musical Krog Tunnel celebrant

See you at Kavarna, Fri. 8/17th at 8:00 pm!

Success! See you in May for Artifact Night!

Last night's stellar performances from Susan Rebecca White, Myke Johns and Jason Mallory have us feeling like we're jumping rope inside this Go! Team song. Thanks, too, to Vouched Books, for bringing the tableful of impressive local lit. 


What's NEW/What's NEXT


Ohboy, ohboy, ohboy.


Friday, May 18th, True Story is hosting its first-ever All Artifact Night! 
That’s right: Six stouthearted souls shall share simple true stories about the objects from their past. 
Expect the strange. The tragic. The humorous. The embarrassing. All of it true! 


It's one night of pure show and tell for grown-ups. Friday, May 18^th. 8:00 pm at Kavarna. Always free.

Friday, April 20th Readers Announced!

Greetings!

Where the worlds of literature, rock 'n roll and the silver screen collide, you'll find True Story #14.

Our next night of artifacts and fine, fine writing begins with...

Susan Rebecca WHITE

Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan Rebecca White graduated from Brown University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. Her debut novel, Bound South, a Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) bestseller, was shortlisted for the Townsend Award. Her second novel, A Soft Place to Land, was chosen as a Target pick and received wide critical acclaim, from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution to Vanity Fair magazine. Her third novel is slated for publication by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in the spring of 2013.

Susan has been teaching creative writing at Emory University since 2009. She was the writer-in-resident at SCAD Atlanta during the winter of 2011.

Jason MALLORY

Jason Mallory is the founder of Scene Missing magazine, which in the publishing world is like being the founder of a newspaper insert of Target coupons, or the founder of a Chipolte bag that's particularly descriptive of the burrito deliciousness that's contained within. Come to think of it, at least with the Chipolte bag you get to eat delicious food. Scene Missing Magazine offers no sour cream or salsa, or even guacamole. Jason lives in Atlanta.

Myke JOHNS

Myke Johns, like presumably the rest of you, harbors niche interests. He's been able to parlay some of into a job as a public radio producer. When he's not busy being "intrepid," he's one of the evil nerds behind WRITE CLUB Atlanta and, despite being older than 19, persists at playing in a rock and roll band called Mice in Cars.

Okay, that got awkward. Sorry. He wrote this.

So that's it! Writers both rogue...and oddly self-deprecating. Don't let their modesty fool you; it'll be a wang-dang-doodle April 20th. All night long.* We warned you.

(*or from 8:00-10:00 pm, roughly, give or take half an hour.)