Raven Chronicles’ Journal, Vol. 26, Last CallA Reading & Reception for
Raven Chronicles Journal Vol. 26:
August 3, 2018
Friday 7-9 pm Free
Elliott Bay Book Company1521 10th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
206 624-6600
Readings by:
MC: Anna Balint
From Recovery Café’s Safe Place Writing Circle: Cathy Scott, Megan McInnis, Elliott Villarreal; and Chris Buckley, T. Clear, Joan Fiset, Steve Griggs, Mare Heron Hake, Thomas Hubbard, Paul Hunter, Anna Odessa Linzer, John Mifsud, Jed Myers, Vaibhav Saini (from Farmington, CT), Marianne Weltmann, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Danae Wright.
Theme Vol. 26, Last Call: In a bar, “last call” means your last chance to order a drink. This is important, because the next public announcement will be the bar closing and you and your friends heading for the door. Well, this is our last call, at least for the near future. The Raven Chronicles, after chronicling the literary antics of tricksters and dreamers, the under-heard, the underserved (and probably underage), since 1991, will no longer publish a regularly-scheduled, subscription-based magazine. Yes, you read that right: the chronicles part of The Raven Chroniclesis subsiding back into the northwest tree pulp from whence it came. Guest Editors: Kathleen Alcala, Priscilla Long, Gary Lilley.
Kathleen Alcala (Fiction Editor): After all these years of reading your stories late into the night, I am going to miss it. Yes, we grumble, but there is nothing quite like that jolt that says, this is familiar, but entirely new. This is exceptional. Now this, this is real writing.
Gary Copeland Lilley (Poetry Editor): The Last Call—a celebration to the rest of the night, after the music, the flirtations, the fails and the successes, the noise of a bar reeking with the stains of everything that declares we are alive. So appropriate a theme for The Raven Chroniclesas it transitions from lit and art journal to a book publishing press.
Priscilla Long (Nonfiction Editor): This is the “Last Call” for Raven Chroniclesin journal form (I salute the vibrant role it has played in the culture of our region).
I am proud of this group of essays. “Last call” means things are over, finished, done, about to close down, but not forgotten, maybe never forgotten.
Featuring 114 writers and 35 artists/illustrators; from 22 states and 8 countries. States: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia. Countries: Bali, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Thailand, UK, US.
Contributing Writers: Linda Amundson, Sara Pridmore Bailey, Anna Balint, Paul Bamberger, Margaret Barrie, Jane Blanchard, Barbara Bloom, Judith Borenin, Jessica Brown, Thomas Brush, C.W. Buckley, T. Clear, Terri Cohlene, Minnie Collins, Linda Conroy, Cathy Cook, Mary Crane, Michael Daley, Lauren Davis, Risa Denenberg, DC Diamondopolous, Mike Dillon, Patrick Dixon, Bruce Dodson, Chris Espenshade, Alex Everette, Catherine Fahey, Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz, Joan Fiset, Anne Frantilla, Rich Furman, Sharon Goldberg, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, James Grabill, John Grey, Steve Griggs, Mare Heron Hake, Sharon Hashimoto, Gail Haynes, Alicia Hokanson, Thomas Hubbard, Kathryn Hunt, Paul Hunter, Heikki Huotari, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Christopher J. Jarmick, Lynn Knapp, Jeff LaBrache, Andrew Lafleche, Elizabeth Landrum, Larry Laurence, Yvonne H.Leach, Loreen Lilyn Lee, vivian linder levi, Simone Liggins, brenna lilly, Kaye Linden, Martha Linehan, Anna Odessa Linzer, Alice Lowe, Georgia McDade, Megan McInnis, Tim McNulty, Jim Maloney, Terry Martin, Michelle Matthees, Jessica Mehta, John Mifsud, Jack Miller, Kevin Miller, Rita Mookerjee, Rocio Munoz, C.A. Murray, Jed Myers, Kevin J. O’Conner, John Olson, Merri Ann Osborne, Sue Gale Pace, Lola E. Peters, Christopher Pierson, Thomas R. Prince, Willie Pugh, Mary Randall, Jack Remick, Sherry Rind, Frank Rossini, Martin Rutley, Joel Sackett, Vaibhav Saini, Cathy Scott, Judith Skillman, Catherine Sutthoff Slaton, Kathleen Smith, Matthew J. Spireng, Joannie Stangeland, JT Stewart, Carol Sunde, Taumstar, Stephen Thomas, Mark Trechock, Ana Vidosavljevic, Elliott Villaramos, April Vomvas, Vladimir Vulovic, Jacqueline Ware, Jeanette Weaskus, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Marianne Weltmann, Richard Widerkehr, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Marjory Woodfield, Carolyne Wright, Danae Wright, Janet Yoder, Nicole Yurcaba.
Contributing Artists: Alfredo Arreguín, Kree Arvanitas, Anna Bálint, Toni La Ree Bennett, Angela Boyle, Anita K. Boyle, Gregg Chadwick, Manit Chaotragoongit, E. Grace Dager, Patrick Dixon, Kathleen Gunton, Katsushika Hokusai, Jury S. Judge, Julia Justo, J.I. Kleinberg, vivian linder levi, Kevin J. O’Conner, OPS Survivors,Willie Pugh, Red Sky Poetry Theatre flyers, Seattle, Rayn Roberts, Sabrina Roberts, John Timothy Robinson, Joel Sackett, Judith Skillman, Marilyn Stablein, George L. Stein, Don Swartzentruber, Drake Truber, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Daniel Staub Weinberg, Jack Williams, Saint James Harris Wood, Judy Xie, Mary Zore.