Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

Piccolo Fiction Open Returns!

The Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open returns to Blue Bicycle Books Sat., June 1, 5 – 7 pm.

The festival’s longest-running event exclusively devoted to the craft of fiction, Piccolo Fiction invites four writers, both local and not, to write and present a 5 minute “short short” story. The reading is held in the lush courtyard of Blue Bicycle Books, and each story will begin with the words “I ducked into the alley…”

Since 2000, Piccolo Fiction has featured dozens of S.C. writers, with stories broadcast by S.C. Public Radio’s ‘Your Day’, and published in the Charleston City Paper. This is a free event with reception to follow.

The 2013 writers are:

Katie Crouch is the author of the bestselling novel Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and the Magnolia League. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Observer, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco.

John Warner is the author of the novel, The Funny Man, a weekly columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row book supplement, and editor at large of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is a visiting instructor at the College of Charleston.

Sara C. Thomason holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.  She was awarded second prize in the 2012 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest.  Currently she lives on Isle of Palms, where she is hard at work on a novel.

Cameron Jones grew up in Charleston and graduated from Clemson University with a degree in English. He has worked at Blue Bicycle Books since 2011 and will begin medical school this fall. This will be his second public reading this year as well as the second of his entire life.

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