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September 28, 2016
100,000 Poets for Change finale this Friday, Sept 30
I’m proud to join this AMAZING lineup with my creative partner in crime, Nick Busheff. We’ll be doing our Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities sideshow act with full clown makeup one last time!
ENGLEWOOD
100,000 Poets for Change
6:30-10:30
Hampden Hall
Admission $10
More info here
1000 Englewood Pkwy, Englewood

The Grand Finalé of “Clan Between the Wor]l[ds” (co-hosted by Michael Annis and Mila Popovich) — Denver’s 2016 concluding celebration of the worldwide movement includes the talents, creativity, and artistic brilliance of the metro area’s finest writers and artists, plus performers from New York, North Dakota, and California. Musical sets include classical, experimental rock, improv jazz stylings, avant techno, and primitive solo drum, some accompanied by poets. Two national slam champions, a Native American shaman, a multi-award winning poet/publisher, a world class jazz poet, a queen of flash fiction, and two of the Rocky Mountain’s most profoundly gifted artists are featured, plus a high intensity video trailer, and a short talk [virtual] by progressive Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Grand Finale performers include: Goncalo Martins
Hawksbrother Hawkspirit
Bobby LeFebre
David Hinojosa & JamKeyJam
Theo Wilson
Felino Soriano
Les Reed & Carolyn Reed
Adam Roufberg
Nancy Stohlman and Nick Busheff
Seth
Mila Popovich
Molli Bernstein
Michael Annis::AtMassFear with Mayra Lorren Delgado
David Allen Reed
Dascha Friedlova

September 21, 2016
“My Mother Was a Circus Clown” published in Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine
My Mother Was a Circus Clown
by Nancy Stohlman
When she kissed me goodnight she left smudges of white paint on my cheeks. When I tried to ask her a question she was inside a box—a wall left, right, above, oh my! When I came home from school she was painting pink eyebrows on her forehead. When I tried to hug her she squirted me with a rubber flower or knocked herself unconscious with a rubber sledgehammer or blew confetti out of a trumpet.
It’s because her parents never let her see live music when she was growing up, my father explained. It was against their religion or something. She vowed to become a clown if they didn’t let her see Elvis when he came through town back in ‘76.
My mother nodded, miming a tear sliding down her cheek with her gloved hand.
Read all about Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine here
(DENVER: Watch me read this and other clown-related stories from my forthcoming book, Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities on Sept 30 at Hampden Hall, Denver, as part of the 100, 000 Poets for Change grand finale event. I will be accompanied by the genuis of composer Nick Busheff!)

September 19, 2016
Fbomb NYC on Sept 9, 2016
I was thrilled to be able to join the kickoff of Fbomb NYC on Friday, Sept 9, hosted by Paul Beckman and featuring myself and Bud Smith. The series is a spin-off of the Denver Fbomb, a flash fiction-based series I began in 2013. The Red Room above the KGB bar in in the East Village was a wonderful location and there was a packed house! Readers included:
Read what fellow reader A.E. Weisgerber had to say about the event here as well as a great photo slideshow of all the readers:Jane Liddle, Alice Kaltman, Loren Kleinman, Paul Beckman, Gessy Alvarez, Sara Lippman, Chuck Howe, Anne Weisgerber, Jan Elman-Stout, Jolene McIlwaine.
(Host Paul Beckman (below left), featured reader Nancy Stohlman (below right)


The readers from left to right: A.E Weisberger, (featured reader) Bud Smith, Chuck Howe, Gessy Alvarez, Jolene Mcllwaine, Jan Elman Stout, Alice Kaltman, Jane Liddle and Sara Lippman. (Not pictured Loren Kleinman.)

August 29, 2016
This Friday: Denver’s First Lit Crawl!
DENVER
Ist Annual DENVER LIT CRAWL
Friday, September 2
6-9 pm

Sponsored by At the Inkwell, The Fbomb, Mile High MFA, The Lighthouse Writers, Colorado Humanities, Tethered by Letters and the Bookbar!
Lit Crawl is from 6-9 pm along Tennyson Avenue
I will be hosting the Fbomb portion of the evening.
FBomb will be reading from 8-8:45 p.m.
Local 46
4586 Tennyson Street
Team Fbomb: Nancy Stohlman, Rob Geisen, Steven Dunn, Kona Morris, Nick Morris, Roseanna Frechette, Bryan Jansing and Jonathan Montgomery!
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August 17, 2016
August 27: Boulder Fringe Festival
The Boulder Poetry Tribe Presents:
“For the Howlers: A Five Part Series of Poetic Performance”
More info on the entire lineup of poets here
Boulder Fringe Festival Tickets and info here
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Saturday, August 27
8 pm
Nick Busheff and Nancy Stohlman perform pieces from:
Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities
(forthcoming)

along with incredible members of the Boulder Poetry Tribe!


August 2, 2016
“Naked” published in 100 Word Story
by Nancy Stohlman
The scissors slide easily through the thick denim of my favorite blue jeans, from

Are you having trouble breathing? he asks with kind brown eyes.
A little, on one side, I whisper.
We’ll be there soon he says, gently placing an oxygen mask as the ambulance sirens rattle the warm evening air.
Published in 100 Word Story. Read the original here

July 12, 2016
July 19: 2nd Annual Fbomb Flash Fiction Festival
All shows begin at 7:30 at The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St, Denver.
FESTIVAL THEME: ELVIS LUAU!
The FBOMB (Flash-Bomb) Reading Series is Denver’s only flash fiction reading series! A beautiful blend of amateur and professional set in the quirky Mercury Cafe.
If you’re flash-curious, come on down and see what all the fuss is about! Open mic slots are first come first served and are limited to 3-4 mins–the length of one flash piece.
Come one, come all!
Host Nancy Stohlman! Nancy Stohlman’s books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. She is the creator and curator of the Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series in Denver, the impetus behind FlashNano, and her work was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Find out more about her at www.nancystohlman.com
Featuring Chris Bowen! Christopher Bowen is the author of We Were Giants (Sunnyoutside Press, 2013) and the forthcoming When I Return To You, I Will Be Unfed. He lives and works as a chef in Cleveland and blogs from Burning River.
Featuring David S. Atkinson! David S. Atkinson is the author of “Not Quite so Stories” (Literary Wanderlust), “The Garden of Good and Evil Pancakes” (2015 National Indie Excellence Awards finalist in humor), and “Bones Buried in the Dirt” (2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist, First Novel http://davidsatkinsonwriting.com/ and he spends his non-literary time working as a patent attorney in Denver.
Featuring April Bradley! April Bradley is from Goodlettsville, Tennessee and lives with her family on the Conneticut shoreline near New Haven. Her work has appeared in Boston Literary, Flash Fiction Chronicles, Flash Fronteir, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Magazine, Narratively, Pure Slush, Southern Women’s Review, and Thrice Fiction, among others. She has a MA in Ethics from Yale University and studied Philosophy and Theology as a post-graduate scholar at Cambridge University. Her fiction recently has been nominated for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology and for the Pushcart Prize. She is the Associate Editor for Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine and Press.

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June 27, 2016
10% off Sculpting Flash Fiction until June 30
SCULPTING FLASH FICTION
July 11-July 31
Editing is the most important part of the writing process. As serious writers, you know it’s through the editing process that we begin to refine and sculpt our messages. But just as writing flash fiction requires adifferent set of skills, so does editing flash fiction.
In this workshop we will use the tools of ambiguity and implication; we will learn the different between chipping and chopping; we will learn how to shrink-wrap text, and most of all learn how to achieve the specific needs of flash fiction as I guide you and other participants to edit your real works in progress.
This will be a 3-week online workshop format class with limited availability. Participants should have a basic understanding of flash fiction and come to the class with flash pieces already in progress. Each participant will have the opportunity to submit 1-2 stories per week.
I’ve been a freelance editor since 2004 as well as a co-founder and editor for the flash fiction press Fast Forward Press. I have edited four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, an book of flash fiction that was a finalist for a Colorado Book Award.
Tuition: $109 (only $99 until June 30)
Workshop runs July 11-31 (capped at 10 participants)
Contact me with questions at nancystohlman@gmail.com
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June 5, 2016
I’m Alive!
As many of you may have heard, I was in a serious head-on highway collision on Friday, May 20th, landing me in the hospital for over a week with broken ribs, punctured lung and broken elbow. Truthfully, the people who Jaws of Life-ed me out of the wreckage were thrilled that I was alive at all and I’m extremely lucky that my injuries are not permanent. I’m home recovering and grateful to everyone, my friends and family and co-workers and especially Nick Busheff, who has been a rock of support.
You are not rid of me yet, but I might be skipping roller skating for a few months.
People have been asking if this will affect Fbomb events or my upcoming online workshops. I’m happy to say that everything will proceed as scheduled–Fbomb will keep bombing with no date changes (I may be hosting the Flash Festival in July in a cast but I will paint it like Wonder Woman!) and I’m looking forward to the online workshops–writing is medicine and it will be great for me to focus on writing instead of ribs.
Finally, there has been an enormous outpouring of love and generosity from my fellow writers and friends. If there was a lesson for me in all this I’m sure it was to tell me that I am loved, and it’s been humbling and amazing. Thank you all, so much. I am extremely lucky to be in community with you all.
To love, healing, and words–
Nancy
From Gay Degani’s Words In Place Blog Series:
DERAILED: Nancy Stohlman’s Interrupted Journey
This spot was destined for Nancy Stohlman’s Journey to Planet Write; however, fate intervened on an interstate near Denver on Friday 5/20 when she was hit head-on by another car. She’s home now but suffered a broken elbow along with the 6 broken ribs
It just doesn’t feel right for me to fill this space with someone else’s journey and hopefully at some point in the future, Nancy will write her own story, but in the meantime, I decided to ask a few of Nancy’s friends to contribute stories, comments, photos, anything to honor Nancy.
Brought to you by Women Who Flash Their Lit:
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May 17, 2016
Two summer flash fiction workshops!
Flash fiction workshops from beginner to advanced!
For more info and Earlybird Discounts CLICK HERE
WRITING FLASH FICTION
June 13-July 3
So you want to write flash fiction? Flash fiction is redefining how we tell stories, and by embracing this compressed form, all writers–from poets to novelists to nonfiction writers–are cultivating a new set of skills and creating an entirely new kind of story.
In this workshop we will generate original flash pieces, examine what makes successful flash fiction, and try to differentiate flash from its cousins, the prose poem and the vignette.
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SCULPTING FLASH FICTION
July 11-July 31
Editing is the most important part of the writing process. As serious writers, you know it’s through the editing process that we begin to refine and sculpt our messages. But just as writing flash fiction requires adifferent set of skills, so does editing flash fiction.
In this workshop we will use the tools of ambiguity and implication; we will learn the different between chipping and chopping; we will learn how to shrink-wrap text, and most of all learn how to achieve the specific needs of flash fiction as I guide you and other participants to edit your real works in progress.
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