Come out on Thursday, Dec. 11th at 7:00pm for an evening of warm drinks, literature, and community at Best Video. The writers who will be attending the event are : Kevin M. Kearney, KKUURRTT, Emily Costa, Terri Linn Davis, and Felicia Rosemary Urso. Come out to support both local & national writers, and your favorite Non-Profit Video Store and Coffee Bar! This event is free to the public but as always donations are appreciated.
Kevin M. Kearney is a writer living in California. He’s the author of the novels FREELANCE and HOW TO KEEP TIME and has written about music, literature, and the internet for Slate, Stereogum, The Metropolitan Review, and other fine publications.
KKUURRTT is a writer from San Diego, CA. He’s the current producer and host for the quarterly reading series Small Press Nite. His previous publications include the novel GOOD AT DRUGS (Back Patio Press) and the chapbook BLECH LIFE (Bottlecap Press). His novel POP!, co-written with Tex Gresham, is forthcoming on Rejection Letters.
Emily Costa is the author of a collection of short stories, GIRL ON GIRL (Rejection Letters), and UNTIL IT FEELS RIGHT (Autofocus), a collection of diary entries chronicling her experience with intensive CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder. She received her MFA in fiction from Southern Connecticut State University where she teaches English. She is the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Farewell Transmission and an Assistant Flash Editor for Split Lip Magazine. You can find her online at emilylauracosta.com.
Terri Linn Davis is an American poet and writer. She is the co-founder, co-editor, and the Xena: Warrior Princess of “Spin the Bottle,” for Icebreakers Lit. She is also the host of the sporadic podcast Too Lit To Quit: the Podcast for Literary Writers. Terri is a first generation college student, and after working various odd jobs throughout her twenties, she graduated with her B.S. in English in 2018 and then with an MFA in Poetry from Southern Connecticut State University in 2021. Her poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of The Net. Some of her poems, fiction, craft talks, and poetry book reviews appear in Pithead Chapel, Taco Bell Quarterly, The Penn Review, Rejection Letters, Cultural Daily, The Daily Drunk Mag, Bending Genres, Five South, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the 2022 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for poetry and a 2023 Artist Fellowship recipient from Connecticut Office of the Arts. Terri works from home as a Technical Writer in an 190 year old haunted farmhouse in Connecticut. She is also licensed to teach English to grades 7-12. She is a sometimes-adjunct, teaching writing composition and poetry for her alma mater. Find her on twitter @TerriLinnDavis or contact her here.
Felicia Rosemary Urso is a writer and editor from Rhode Island, living in Cincinnati, OH. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (creative nonfiction) from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, with a post-baccalaureate certificate in publishing. In 2013, she received a BFA in Literary Studies with a focus in poetry from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.
Work of hers has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Lipstick, Rose Books Reader, Neutral Spaces, Hobart, Had, Witch Craft Magazine, and XRAY, among others. Her essay “What I’d Ask If You Weren’t Dead” was nominated for a Best of the Net award and was included in Suicide: An Anthology.
She is an editor at Triangle House Review and Rejection Letters.
Felicia’s work has been supported by Tin House and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is an alumni of the Tyrant Books writing workshop Mors Tua Vita Mea in Sezze Romano, Italy.
She is currently seeking representation for her memoir and is working on a novel.
Find her on Instagram, Twitter, or at feliciarosemaryurso@gmail.com.