JEAN-PIERRE LACRAMPE ON KQED'S THE WRITERS BLOCK

Listen to Jean-Pierre Lacrampe read his prose poem, "Objects of My Disaffection" on KQED's online program, "The Writers' Block." . Structured as a prose-poem, "Objects Of My Disaffection" constructs a narrative from a list of objects and actions. It was published in our most recent issue, Issue 5: Crime.

IC GETS GUARDIAN LOVE!

From the SF Bay Guardian: "Instant City 5 straddles the privy–coffee table divide pretty handily, thanks to its gorgeous cover and interior art and some razor-sharp short fiction and essays. The literary journal's focus is San Francisco, and the latest installment takes crime as its theme. So Stephen Elliott muses (in a fetish club) on the burglars he knew as a kid, and Sona Avakian explores how a husband's illicit cigarette can turn into an affair with a snake woman. Morbid Curiosity czar Loren Rhoads leads readers on a tour of San Francisco crime scenes, and Richard J. Martin teaches the Fisherman's Wharf hustle."

  INSTANT CITY 5 IS OUT!

Issue 5 "Crime" includes work by: Scott Upper, Loren Rhoads, Marcos Soriano, Stephen Elliott, Lisa Ryers, Jennifer Blowdryer, Richard J. Martin Jr., Jean-Pierre Lacrampe, Alia Volz, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Mark Jacobs, Sarah Fran Wisby, Sona Avakian, and Jim Nelson.

  SEAN BEAUDOIN READS FROM INSTANT CITY ON KQED'S "WRITERS' BLOCK"

Have a listen to a podcast reading of Sean Beaudoin's "Guerrero." A series of poetic vignettes about a group of housemates in San Francisco in the late eighties, the story was published in Instant City #4

  INSTANT CITY WINS OPIUM'S LITERARY DEATH MATCH!

Kirk Read, author of "Raiders" in the third issue of Instant City, took on the challenge at the 2nd ever San Francisco Literary Death Match and prevailed against some fantastic story-tellers. See some pix and read the blog on the LDM website!