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Building Community with Reading Series (& strobe lights)
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In this episode, host Carol Mitchell and Fox City Lit Reading Series founders and organizers: Billy Howell, Erika Ostergaard, and Michael Don riff about their Fairfax City reading series: Fox City Lit, discuss how reading series build community, and brainstorm reading series' ideas including strobe lights and arm wrestling.
Fox City Lit is a seasonal reading series in Fairfax City, Virginia. Check out the website for details on the dates and specific location.
Carol Mitchell is a consulting editor with Stillhouse Press and a term professor in the English Department at George Mason University. She holds an MFA from George Mason and is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: "What Start Bad a Mornin'."
Erika Ostergaard is a cyber security project manager, costumer, and poet, currently working on a collection of poetry and an historical fiction novel. You can follow her adventures on Instagram at @ostergaard1of4.
Billy Howell is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an Associate Professor of English at George Mason. He has written lots of stories and essays, some of which are true.
Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and Co-editor of Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature. He teaches in the English Department at George Mason University.
For more news and press, check out the Fox City Lit website.
A transcript of this episode is available here
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