“Tongue & Groove” A monthly offering of short fiction, personal essays, poetry, spoken word + music

SPREADING THE WORD for 10 YEARS!

“Tongue & Groove” 

A
monthly offering of short fiction, personal essays, poetry, spoken word

+ music produced by Conrad Romo.

This  month features Tanya Ward
Goodman "Leaving Tinkertown", Matt Sumell "Making Nice", Marisa Matarazzo "Drenched", Ellen Switkes and music by Linda Ravenswood

Sunday December 15th  

6-7:30 pm

The Hotel Cafe

1623 1/2 No. Cahuenga Blvd.

Hollywood, Ca 90028

$6.00

https://www.facebook.com/events/670402109648012/

Tanya Ward Goodman
grew up in Tinkertown Museum, a roadside attraction built by her
father, Ross Ward, in the mountains of New Mexico. Her writing has been
published in the Los Angeles Times, Brain, Child Magazine, The

Huffington Post and Literary Mama.  Her essays have been included in the

"Cup of Comfort" series edited by Colleen Sell for Adams Media and the

anthology "My Teacher Is My Hero." She is a regular blogger for TheNextFamily.com
Her memoir "Leaving Tinkertown" was published in 2013 by the
University of New Mexico Press. She is currently at work on a novel. 

Matt Sumell’s short fiction has appeared in Esquire, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, Noon, and elsewhere. His first collection, Making Nice, is forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2015

Ellen Switkes
writes personal stories for the page and the stage. She was the

producer/host for Cornucopia, a storytelling show at Actors Workout

Studio in No Ho, as well as a board member of LA Story Works, the

founding organization for the LA Storytelling Festival.

Marisa Matarazzo grew
up in Los Angeles the daughter of a painter and a linguist. She
attended Harvard-Westlake High School and pursued acting as a teenager.
She earned her BA from Yale, where she received the Wallace Prize for
fiction writing, the Jodie Foster Scholarship, the Arthur Willis Colton

Scholarship, and was a two-time recipient of the Elmore A. Willets Prize

for fiction. Earning her MFA from UC Irvine, she was the recipient of

the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship. Her stories

have been published in Faultline, Hobart, and fivechapters.com.

Linda Ravenswood

is an artist from Los Angeles. Her work is performative, cinematic and

visual and can be seen on film, in print and online. She has an album, Held by the Border, and new books, MUDSLINGER and Hymnal,

a Pushcart Prize nominee (2012, Mouthfeel Press). Linda holds a BFA

from CalArts, and a Master's Degree in The Humanities from Mount Saint

Mary's College. Currently she is a third year PhD student at the

Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Come early!  Seating is limited and we start on time! tongueandgroovela.com