Ink-Filled Page Readings

Now that Ink-Filled Page Anthology 2008 is on the cusp of its launch, we'd like to announce the following readings by contributors in the anthology:

Tuesday, October 21, 7-10 p.m.
Ink-Filled Page Anthology 2008 Launch
Worksound
SE 8th and Alder, Portland, OR
Featured contributors: Tonia McConnell, Kessa Shipley, Gwen Swanson, Ashley Taylor

Sunday, October 26, 7-9 p.m.
Pianos
158 Ludlow (upstairs), New York, NY
Featured contributors: Alana Cash, Joseph Riippi, Jonathan Willard

Wednesday, November 12, 7-9 p.m.
Blackbird Wineshop
3519 NE 44th Ave., Portland, OR
Featured contributors: Kessa Shipley, Gwen Swanson

Monday, November 17, 5-8 p.m.
Cakeshop
151 Ludlow (downstairs), New York, NY
Featured contributors: Alana Cash, Joseph Riippi, Jonathan Willard

Ink-Filled Page Summer 2008

The Summer 2008 issue of the Ink-Filled Page is out. Download your free copy here.

Here's a sneak peak:

A forty-hour car ride with your wife and two young children? Men everywhere double over in pain at the thought. Well, I took the lumps and lived to tell.

Let’s begin by answering the obvious question of why? When I was a kid, my family drove from New York to Florida on an annual basis. The trip was a pilgrimage of sorts to visit my father’s large family in Miami and to escape the harsh New York winters.

Work had gotten slow, and I was faced with an impromptu family vacation. The consensus was to head for surf and sun, but last-minute airline tickets were priced through the roof. With the prospect of a vacation in peril, a veil of disappointment settled upon my family. “We could drive to Florida,” I said.

From "The Long Drive," by Jonathan Willard
Art: "Piano Man," by Sarah Hicks