BOOK LAUNCH NEWS and free* SURREALIST & MAGICAL REALIST WORKSHOP with Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman - June 11th
DEAR FRIENDS, I HAVE SOMETHING EXCITING TO ANNOUNCE! Today is the worldwide launch of "The House of Grana Padano" by Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman!
Along with the launch, Jeff and I will be offering a FREE 3-Hour SURREALIST and MAGICAL REALISM workshop on June 11th, 2PM- 5PM EST. The cost for the workshop is to own a copy of our book. Exercises and challenges will all be based on the stories in the collection! (*must own a copy of the book)
If interested in our workshop, after ordering, please email Meg and Jeff directly here: flashfictionzreadings@gmail.com
Ordering information: On our publisher's page (Pelekinesis) are links to all of the ordering options worldwide, including Amazon, B&N, etc. http://www.pelekinesis.com/.../meg_pokrass_and_jeff...
Here are what writers are saying about our collection:
"Here in House of Grana Padano are deft and absorbing micro-tales, surreal, yet sparked with characters achingly universal in their quest for attainment: a man causes things he touches to disappear, a woman finds herself replaced by a moose, a captured crow has way too much to say, a woman lives in a house made of cheese… Here is an annealing of two major talents, and this is their illuminated manuscript of fabulistic tales with gold and lapis lazuli on every page, and yes, too, the grit and poetry of life.”
—Robert Scotellaro, author of What Are the Chances?
In the entrancing story “Searching for the Bearded Dragon” Danielle and the narrator frantically hunt for Sam, their bearded pet dragon who has gone missing. What to do? Then Danielle says, “Let’s just do what we normally do… It’ll be okay.” I imagine that is how this brilliant collaboration that resulted in House of Grana Padano worked its magic. Jeff Friedman’s wild and engaging images, the stuff of elegant and fabulist prose poetry, and Meg’s Pokrass’s brilliant and distinctive use of disjunction in line after line, story after story, merge here as these two brilliant writers “just do what they normally do.” But here they do it together.
—Pamela Painter, Fabrications