SHOW UP WITH WORDS
READ THEM OUT IF YOU’D LIKE
Pagefright Society
ABOUT
I’m lucky to live in a place brimming with writers, the City of Stories, as it’s known, and I’ve been luckier still, after sixteen prior years in the addictive but lonely City that Never Sleeps, to have found among them, not only friends and neighbors, but community — at long last.
But writing remains a solitary activity, one that sends us deep within, a dark ocean floor of imaginary friends we catch only in glimpses and brushes. We need to surface, from time to time, to get out of our heads and away from our desks.
The Pagefright Society wasn’t going to be a workshop, we have those, but instead more like a read-aloud club, a space to release what is usually submerged and, more importantly, a to listen. What a pleasure it’s been to hear what you’ve shared.
Here’s to all of you.
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The only rule: You never have to read, but you always have to bring something to have to bring something to read, but you'll never be made to read it
· The only rule: You never have to read, but you always have to bring something to have to bring something to read, but you'll never be made to read it
The Society has very official rules, all of which can be bent or broken.
What kind of work is allowed?We’re agnostic. Bring prose, lyrics, poems, plays, essays, unfinished notes, and all of the whatever’s-in-the-fridge concoctions you’ve been cooking lately.
How long should I read?This may change at some point, but for now, read as much as you’d like. Some people read a little and some a lot. They’re all doing it correctly.
None of these are rules.
Do you actually have any?Just one: You have to bring something to read, even if you chicken out of reading it.
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