The House Party Reading Series
a salon-style reading: doors open at 7 p.m. & reading starts at 8 p.m.
Hosted in Durham, North Carolina by Bull City Press, the House Party Reading Series is a chance for writers and readers to hear some of the most exciting voices in contemporary letters… and then have a party. Head chef Ashley Nissler prepares the spread and the Bull City Press gang brings authors from all over the country to read new work.
Featured Readers:
Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize (Ohio UP). He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other places. He has also reviewed poetry, nonfiction, and fiction for The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted on Verse Daily. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things.
The author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers, David Haynes is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he directed the creative writing program for ten years. Since 1996 he has taught regularly in MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His seventh and most recently novel is A Star in the Face of the Sky. His forthcoming book is a collection, Martha’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories.
Sebastian Merrill is an award winning poet and a yoga instructor. His debut collection Ghost :: Seeds was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press.
Karen Tucker is the author of the novel Bewilderness (Catapult 2021), which was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and selected as a “Dazzling Debut” and Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association. Tucker’s fiction can be found in The Missouri Review, The Yale Review, LitHub, Boulevard, EPOCH, Tin House, American Literary Review, Salamander, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers, the George M. Harper Award for Creative Writing, the Jerome Stern Series Spotlight Award in fiction, and a PEO Scholar Award. Born and raised in North Carolina, she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at UNC Chapel Hill.
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