PHOTOS COURTESY OF CASEY CURRY

 VIDEO BY DANNY COREY

DIRTY LAUNDRY LIT: Secrets, Indulgences & Lies

... was awesome.

MANY THANKS TO:

ERTEL plays rock n’ roll and all of its relatives: blues, soul, R&B, punk & electronica.
The trio of musicians features Matt on guitar and strange noises, Abbe on vocals
and Greg on drums and percussion.

Jeff Eyres has written jokes for Saturday Night Live and a number of late night television shows and has worked as a pundit/commentator on CNN Headline News. His sketch comedy group Mental Furniture had a sold-out run at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York and appeared in HBO’s New Performers Series. He was a member of the legendary First Amendment Improvisation Troupe – whose roll included Bruce Willis, John Leguizamo, Kathy Kinney and many others. His plays “Hamlet: Satanic Sentinel of the Suburbs,” “Mountain Vampire Goth Chicks” and “Mrs. Copway’s Pony” have each run multiple times in New York. He wrote and appeared in the cult classic movie “Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die.” He is a graduate of the Second City Writers Program, and the U.C., Riverside MFA program.

Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, which received writer Barbara Kingsolver's 2008 Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change and was named one of the Best Novels of 2010 by the Washington Post. A graduate of Stanford, Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School, Heidi is the co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival and an occasional essay contributor to National Public Radio.

Willie Davis won the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize judged by Zadie Smith and was a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship recipient. His fiction has appeared in The Guardian, The Kenyon Review, storySouth, and Urbanite Magazine, among others.

Natashia Deón is a criminal attorney, award-winning screenwriter, and creative writing instructor for PEN in the Classroom and 826LA. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the desert, Deón is pursuing an MFA at University of California, Riverside. A 2010 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship recipient and 2011 VCCA Fellow, her work has appeared in the Emerging Voices anthology, Strange Cargo, and is forthcoming in Kweli Journal and The Rattling Wall.

Eric Layer is the creator/curator of the podcast/reading series Hiccup: Stories with Soundtracks. He was born and raised in San Francisco, and received his BFA in Acting and Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. His stories have been featured in Penny Ante, Palehouse, and The Rattling Wall. He has also written and produced films and plays with his former group Piece of Meat. Eric currently resides in Los Angeles and is working on his first short story collection, Casual Encounters.

Katherine DeBlassie was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Zone 3, Tidal Basin, Court Green, Boxcar Poetry Review and Cutthroat. She earned her MFA from the University of Maryland. She received honorable mention for the 2011 Rita Dove Poetry Prize, she was a finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and received a Work-Study Scholarship for the 2010 and 2011 Bread Loaf writing conference.

Kaitlyn Greenidge is a Bread Loaf Writers’ conference scholarship recipient whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Believer, Green Mountains Review and Canteen Magazine. She graduated from Hunter College as a Hertog Fellow, with an MFA in fiction. In 2011, she was the Visiting Emerging Writer at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

The Mandrake
The Mandrake is a strictly 21+ venue, located at 2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034 (between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd.) 
Street parking available.