Main Street Rag Publishing Co Reading & Open Mic Series (2nd Thursdays), Featured Authors: Jason Mott & Maureen Sherbondy

Thursday

03/11/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Main Street Rag Publishing Co Reading & Open Mic Series (every 2^nd  Thursday)
Featured Authors: Jason Mott & Maureen Sherbondy

Main Street Rag Publishing Company have joined together  as the newest location for the Main Street Rag Reading Series.  Every Second Thursday at 7pm, co-hosts Debra Kaufman and Stan Absher will start the evening by introducing two of our authors as featured readers, followed by an Open Mic.  Readers, writers and appreciators of poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction are invited to join in.

The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, a bindery and a publisher based in Charlotte, has published a quarterly print magazine since 1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography and graphic images, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons and commentary.  MSR also publishes poetry through their annual chapbook and full-length poetry collection contests.  They also help writers self-publish their works; from design, layout and printing to shipping the books out.

Jason Mott received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington.  His fiction and poetry has been published in journals such as The Thomas Wolfe Review, Chautauqua and Measure.  He was also recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for Poetry.  When he's not writing poetry about the subject of love, he spends his time writing poetry about the subject of superheroes.

Maureen Sherbondy received a BA degree from Rutgers University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies, 13^th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award from Kent State University. Main Street Rag published her first book, After the Fairy Tale, in 2007. Praying at Coffee Shops was published in 2008. Her short story collection, The Slow Vanishing, was released in 2009.