
Her literary erasure art was featured during the summer of 2017 as part of Made Here: Future, an urban walking gallery in the West Downtown Minneapolis Cultural District. He is also a very large outer main-belt asteroid.Įrin Dorney is the recipient of a 2017 Artist Career Development Grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation a 2017 Emerging Artist Residency at Tofte Lake Center a 2016 Spruceton Inn Artist Residency and was the first Modern Worker: Writer in Residence at Modern Art in Lancaster, PA. He is also the author of stone a pig and MY NAME IS HATE, both self-published. writes for Adweek and Barnes & Noble, and his fiction/essays/poetry have appeared in Front Porch Journal, Battered Suitcase, Cobalt, Artichoke Haircut, The Avenue, Welter, TRUCK, and on the LED billboard in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore, MD.

The afternoon will be hosted and moderated by Mason Jar Press authors.ĭave K. Join the authors of the most recent and forthcoming MJP publications-the novel, The Bong-Ripping Brides of Count Drogado (2017) by Dave K., the poetry collection I am Not Famous Anymore (2018) by Erin Dorney and the fictional-memoir of short prose, How to Sit (2018) by Tyrese Coleman-for a reading, Q and A, and book signing.
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And, like the movies he critiques, ultimately question our own gaze as the camera draws intimately close.Mason Jar Press, a new, local independent press, is bringing together their authors in their second annual celebration of literature and art.

By inviting the reader into these essays, he asks us to explore the knife’s edge between desire and risk and the longing to be simultaneously seen and not seen, questioning what we lose, if anything, when we’re heard and recognized. “Charles Jensen’s cinematically structured essays seamlessly blend film studies and memoir.

A hybrid in the best sense, Cross Cutting combines poetry and prose on the page in a way that feels organic and fresh.” - Tyrese Coleman, competition judge and author of How to Sit “Right from the first few sentences, Jensen’s language and story in this chapbook immediately draw you in. These hybrid essays splice together the memory of a lived experience with critical analysis of a film, expressing in the juxtaposition of these two narratives the way responses to events, recollections, and art intertwine and inform one another. Winner of the 2020 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Nonfiction, selected by Tyrese Coleman.
