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May 4: BIG NEWS! Special Thanks to our friends at The Kessler Theater for the new Lit Pack Series:

WordSpace at The Kessler

October 23, 2013: The Comedic Prophesies of Sandra Bernhard

December 8, 2013: Nikki Giovanni: The Real Deal

2014 Date TBA: John Waters–This Filthy World

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March 4: Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2013 Rilke Award, $10,000 poetry prize from University of North Texas. Hear her NPR interview. 

March 3: Congratulations to Ben Fountain on receiving the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Ben has been a long time supporter of WordSapce and a past board president. One of the first readings of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was at a WordSpace event .  Read more about the award here  http://bookcritics.org/awards

Nov. 13: GOOD FRIENDS: Tim Seibles and Ben Fountain at the National Book Award Finals

Ben Fountain, also nominated for the Booker Prize, has won so many additional awards, we can’t even keep up anymore–Way to Go, Ben!!

April 27, 2012: Dallas author Ben Fountain’s long ‘Halftime’ walk, Dallas Morning News

March 26, 2012: Congratulations to original WordSpace ganger, and NEA winner, David Searcy, on nailing a place in Issue 200 of Paris Review.

March 15, 2012: SMU Literary Festival March 21 – 24:
Martha Rhodes, Green Rose Prize, Corey Marks, editor of American Literary Review, Tyehimba Jess, poetry book of the year by Black Issues Book Review, Eduardo Corral, winner of both the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets and a Whiting Award. WordSpace will open the Southern Methodist University Literary Festival with WordSpace Student Readings and reception on the 21st.

March 11, 2012: Cliff Notes The Show. Check out the Dallas produced web comedy goodness for the brain, starring Matt Thurston, Marcus Stimac, Martha Harms and Christian Taylor.

February 17, 2012: Dallas Poetry Slam’s Youth Slam project, every 2nd Saturday at WordSpace, hosted by Alexandra Marie at 5 pm.

February 14, 2012: Great article on former WordSpace board president, Ben Fountain’s work and new book–Get Ready! Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Here’s another one from Bite the Book.

February 10, 2012: UNT’s $10,000 Rilke prize winner announced: Laura Kasischke

December 28, 2011: “Towering Townes” by John Nova Lomax–includes a great interview with Jeff Liles who tells of meeting Townes at (WordSpace OG) Roxy Gordon‘s home.

December 6, 2011: Magical Paper Sculptures from the ‘Library Phantom’-Delightful!

Former Fort Worth resident, Caravan of Dreams inner-circle writer, Kell Robertson, from Santa Fe New Mexican, by Steve Terrell.

John Modica: 2-6-48 to 11-10-11: ”part of the Joe Stanco’s Poetry Roundtable of recovering Catholics, veterans and other wounded angels, that led down the long road to all things SolstiCelebration. Carry on my wayward son, John. You were brave with great passion…”-Amy Martin

October 4, 2011: Ben Fountain’s new book is due out in May!
Art and Seek takes a peek.

June 4, 2011: Ben Fountain on The Kessler: Read about our favorite club in the NY Times

July 31, 2010: Dallas Morning News: Ben Fountain on Robert Trammell
The Dallas Morning News published this great piece on Robert Trammell by Ben Fountain.

May, 2010: More on the upcoming Dallas-based Paris Records release of Tim Robbins performing Hunter S. Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, from The End of Being.

October, 2009: Evergreen Review article on Dallas-based spoken word label Paris Records. Paris Records‘ discography includes Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Kathy Acker, Ed Sanders, Ira Cohen, Gregory Corso and celebrity readings of Edgar Allen Poe. Hunter S. Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved is scheduled  for May 2012 release.