Upcoming Events

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Small Press Love Fest - Brooklyn 
Thursday, June 23, 2016. Brooklyn, NY

Rivet Journal and Red Bridge Press will hit New York for our first ever East Coast reading. Join us for a celebration of small presses with 4 indie pubs, 8 great writers, and 1 musical guest. We invite you to enjoy the literary and musical magic then stay after to chat with the editors.

Readers include: Elizabeth Ribar, Abigail Welhouse, Steve Castro, Stephanie Dickinson, Julie Bentsen, Craig Kite, Aimee Herman, and Puma Perl.
We'll be joined by the amazing New York presses great weather for MEDIA and NYSAI Press, and Bay Area compatriots Nomadic Press. 

Venue: 7pm at Hell Phone, 247 Varet Street, enter through the phone booth in Ange Noir Café.

Love Fest event details on Facebook here.

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Steve Castro, Stephanie Dickinson
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Elizabeth Ribar, Abigail Welhouse
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Craig Kite, Julie Bentsen
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Aimee Herman, Puma Perl
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Beast Crawl 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016. Oakland, CA

​Rivet Journal will be hosting an open mic session during Beast Crawl. This is one of the best literary events ever -- hundreds of diverse writers reading at dozens of quirky and cool venues in Downtown Oakland. Our open mic is open to anyone, and all are welcome. Hope to see you there!
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Open Mic event details on Facebook here.

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San Francisco Events
TBD: Summer/Fall 2016. San Francisco, CA
Stay tuned for announcements about other upcoming SF-based readings 

​Past Events

12th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival 
May 10, 2014. Berkeley, CA

Readings by Nanette Deetz, Tim Donnelly, Rosa Lane, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Maisha Johnson, Grace Marie Grafton, Arisa White, Harold Terezón, Denise Jolly, Jezebel Delilah X, Rafael Jesús González & Aya de Leon, and by Milvia Street journal poets Wilfred Galila, Nusaibah Coleman, Michael Hartman & Fred Dodsworth.

Red Bridge Pres and Rivet Journal will be there along with many other local, indie presses. It's a great chance to meet other writers and talk to editors about submitting your work! Hope to see ya there.
  • Where: Berkeley City College
    2050 Center Street, Berkeley, California 94704
AWP 2014 Bookfair   [Seattle, WA]

A 3-day extravaganza of literary nerdiness, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair is the largest literary conference in North America, bringing together authors, editors, teachers, students, presses, and journals.

Look for us at bookfair table J13. We'll have books, merchandise, and other fun things going on. Come by and say hello. We'd love to meet you in person.
  • What: Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair
  • When: February 26 - March 1, 2014
  • Where: Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl., Seattle, WA 98101
Writing That Risks Book Release Party  [San Francisco, California]

Join us for a night of literary BASE jumping at the book release party for Writing That Risks -- an international anthology with a Left Coast sensibility.

The book is out and it's time to celebrate! These authors will tickle your brain and jump start your heart with their wonderful, weird, wacky stories. Picking up where Italo Calvino left off, they take inspiration from the likes of Margaret Atwood and Junot Díaz, and make something entirely new, entirely their own. 

Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream is an anthology of 29 authors from around the world, edited here in San Francisco by the new, indie publishing house Red Bridge Press. This collection brings together fiction and poetry that mash-up genres and bend rules, ranging from surreal to fabulist, explosive to contemplative. Alongside Bay Area contributors, we have anthology authors traveling to San Francisco especially for this event.

The party is ON at Alley Cat Books. Come ready to celebrate, mingle, and buy books! Beer and wine will be available for a donation. Admission to the reading is free.

Readers include:
  • Jenny Bitner's fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, The Sun, Fence, Corium, and PANK. Her story “The Pamphleteer” was selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading. She organized Irrational Exuberance--a cross-genre series combining music, visual art, writing, performance art, and lectures. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
  • Catie Jarvis is an author of fiction and poetry, as well as a yoga instructor, a competitive gymnastics coach, and an online writing instructor at Ashford University. She received a BA in Writing from Ithaca College and an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. She finds the world to be a strange place and loves writing that examines the ambiguity of “reality.”
  • Wendy Patrice Williams is a writer, public speaker, workshop facilitator, and accomplished poet with two chapbooks: Some New Forgetting and Bayley House Bard.  An excerpt of her memoir manuscript, The Autobiography of a Sea Creature, appears in The Healing Art of Writing (University of California Press). Turning the Page: Poems of Trauma, Healing and Transcendence, which Wendy is co-editing, will be published by Fearless Books later this year.
  • Edmund Zagorin is a writer and argument coach in Iowa City, Iowa, and Detroit, Michigan. His serial novel Sorry, Our Unicorn Has Rabies appears regularly on Jukepop. For those who enjoy receiving physical fictional correspondence, Edmund compiles and mails the free monthly broadsheet Stories By Mail.
  • Olga Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Santa Monica Review, eleven eleven Journal, Mad Hatters Review, J Journal, Prick of the Spindle, HTMLGiant, and other print and online publications. Where Does the Sea Flow, a short film based on one of Olga’s stories, recently was a finalist at the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Olga is a senior associate editor at Narrative Magazine.
  • Red Bridge Press editors Liana Holmberg, Deborah Steinberg, and Seth Amos will also be on hand.

Stay tuned via the Facebook event, our email newsletter, blog, or Twitter to hear more about this celebration.
  • When: October 17, 2013
    Thursday, 7-9PM
  • Where: Alley Cat Books
    3036 24th Street
    San Francisco, CA 94114 [map it]
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Seersucker Live Presents: Writing That Risks   [Savannah, Georgia]

Join us for the East Coast book release of Writing That Risks, an international literary anthology featuring work by two Savannah-area writers, Christina Olson and Seersucker's own Zach Powers. Joining them will be acclaimed poet Matt Hart, all the way from Cincinnati. Emceed by Erika Jo Brown & B.J. Love. Music by Brian Dean. There will be booze, and we ask for a donation if you plan to drink. Copies of the anthology and Matt's books will be available for purchase/signing. More event info on Facebook.

Many thanks to our hosts The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah's only full service, independently owned, used and new books bookstore (since 1978).


  • When: September 14, 2013
    Saturday, 7-9PM
  • Where: The Book Lady Bookstore
    6 E. Liberty St.
    Savannah, Georgia 31401
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Small Press Love Fest

It's East Coast meets West Coast as we bring special guests from New York City together with San Francisco Bay Area favorites.

Presented by Ambush Review, Corium Magazine, great weather for MEDIA, Red Bridge Press, and Alley Cat Books.

Join authors and editors from four independent publishers in this celebration of unique voices. You'll hear great new work from innovative authors while enjoying refreshments in Alley Cat Books' revamped gallery space.

We'll also have a Q&A with the editors where you can ask questions about the submission process or publishing in general. Show your love for writing that goes beyond the mainstream, and join us for this one-of-a-kind event.

Admission is free. Beer and wine will be available.
This is our Valentine to you. Don't miss it!


great weather for MEDIA focuses on the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the unpredictable. Our first anthology, It’s Animal but Merciful, showcases poets and writers from the United States, Botswana, the Philippines, Denmark, and Canada. We organize numerous readings and events in our home town of New York City and across the country. Editor: Jane Ormerod
Readers:
  • R. Nemo Hill lives in New York City, but travels extensively in Southeast Asia each year, where his experiences have run the gamut from intestinal bleeding to intellectual ecstasy. His poetry and fiction have appeared in online venues such as The Chimaera, Measure, Poetry, Sulfur, Smartish Pace, and The Shit Creek Review. He is the author of a novel, Pilgrim’s Feather, a narrative poem, "The Strange Music of Erich Zann," and a chapbook, Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire.
  • Kit Kennedy's most recent book, While Eating Oysters, is published by CLWN WR BKS, Brooklyn.
  • Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, visual artist, and all around squeaky wheel, currently residing in Oakland, CA.  He is the author of two books and eight chapbooks.

Ambush Review is an annual, San Francisco & Bay Area based literary arts publication featuring innovative and experimental poetry, short “flash” fiction, art and photography, translations, essays and critical reviews. We seek both emerging and established writers in a diversity of styles and forms. Our premiere issue was called a “stunning debut.” Editors: Bob Booker, Patrick Cahill
Readers:
  • Les Gottesman received an MFA in writing from CCA in 2011. His most recent publication, Misuses of Poetry and Other Poems, was just released by Finishing Line Press, KY.
  • Tobey Hiller has three books of poetry (Crossings, Certain Weathers, Aqueduct) and one published novel, Charlie's Exit. Her poems have also appeared in various magazines and anthologies.
  • Ken Saffran says, "Oh-oh, Biohazard Alert: I want to be profound and playful; not reveal too much or say too little. I'm serious about poetry, but don't take myself too serious." He lives in San Francisco.

Corium Magazine is an online literary journal featuring short fiction, very short fiction and poetry that gets beneath the skin. The corium is the dense inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis. It includes connective tissue, blood and an elaborate sensory nerve network. What’s going on beneath the surface. Our contributors come from many countries and many publishing backgrounds. Corium is based in Oakland, CA, and published quarterly. Editors: Lauren Becker, Heather Fowler
Readers:
  • Jane Hammons moved to the Bay Area 30 years ago but is originally from Roswell, New Mexico, and often feels like an alien in California. She has an essay forthcoming in the anthology California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State and will give a workshop on voice at the A Room of Her Own women writer's retreat held at Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, New Mexico. Recent lesson learned: Live long enough and the loose ends will tie themselves into a lovely bow.
  • Lauren O'Neal'swriting has appeared in publications like Slate, The Hairpin, and Corium Magazine, and she has performed her work for The Encyclopedia Show, Story Tapes, and various podcasts. She is an MFA student as San Francisco State University and an intern at The Rumpus.
  • Emil DeAndreis is a 27-year-old substitute teacher and high school baseball coach in San Francisco.  He is published in over twenty journals and his first book, Beyond Folly, will be released in 2013 by Blue Cubicle Press.  In his free time he plays inadequate rounds of golf and jazz gigs— jazz being the only artistic vocation which pays less than writing. His pilgrimage toward an MFA began this year at San Francisco State.

Red Bridge Press Our first book, Writing That Risks, is an anthology by thirty new and award-winning writers from around the world. Brimming with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that not only risks but reveals, the anthology is due out April 2013. Following that, we'll publish single-author titles, including novels and collections, in print and ebook formats. We have dual citizenship in San Francisco and the Internet. Editors: Liana Holmberg, Deborah Steinberg
Readers:
  • Jenny Bitner's work has appeared in The Sun, PANK, Utne Reader, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, among many other publications. She teaches writing at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
  • Olga Zilberbourg's fiction has been widely published in the U.S. and in Russia. Where Does the Sea Flow, a film based on one of Olga's stories, was recently a finalist at the Manhattan Short Film Festival. She is an associate editor at Narrative Magazine.
  • Jordan Reynolds' poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Louis Liard, The Agriculture Reader, The Offending Adam, zero ducats, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere.

    

When: Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, 4-7PM

Where: Alley Cat Books
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA [map it]

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