Free Author Reading with Award-Winning Writer Matt Cashion followed by Community Open Mic

About Cashion's Short Story Collection, How We Do Things Here:

In Wisconsin and Florida, in backyards, waiting rooms, boardrooms, and bedrooms, How We Do Things Here exposes the hilarity and heartbreak caused by a group of mess-makers  struggling to survive themselves, each other, and the places they're  trying to call home. Inside absurd and poignant moments that provoke  much laughter and pain, Matt Cashion's cast of slow-learners reveals how  we try (and fail) and retry to forge meaningful connections in the  troubled spaces we're so desperate to share.

About the author:

Matt Cashion’s most recent book, How We Do Things Here (Cornerstone Press), a collection of linked stories, was a finalist in the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. His story collection, Last Words Of The Holy Ghost won the 2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and his novel, Our 13th Divorce, won the Edna Ferber Book Prize. Other work appears in The Sun, Cincinnati Review, Willow Springs, Carolina Quarterly, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. Born in the North Carolina mountains and raised in Coastal Georgia, he earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (www.mattcashion.com)

If you would like to read at the open mic, please send an email to driftlesswritingcenter@gmail.com with the subject line: IN-PERSON OPEN MIC, and include your name and contact information. Please prepare to read no more than 5 minutes of material.

Friday, May 8, 7-9pm

@ Vernon County Museum, 410 S Center Ave, Viroqua, WI 54665

Free and open to the public