Congratulations to our September StandOuts! We appreciate their talent and creativity!
Listen and Enjoy below!
Nick Angello – Parking Enforcement
John Shaw – Yes and Amen
Olga Anson – Aged Mother
Author: Carrie
Fifteenth Anniversary San Diego Open Mic!
Join us for our 15th Anniversary with Host and Founder
Amy Wallen!
Amy Wallen is the associate director at New York State Summer Writers’ Institute and the author of When We Were Ghouls, A Memoir of Ghost Stories, as well as the bestselling novel, MoonPies and Movie Stars. She facilitates Savory Salons, a manuscript workshop with LA Times book critic, David Ulin in San Diego, Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Country Living, The Writers’ Chronicle and other national magazines. Most of the time she lives in San Diego, California with her husband and the cutest dog that’s ever chased a squirrel. Summers she lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where Hazel chases woodchucks. 
For this anniversary evening you will have 3 minutes and 15 seconds! Enjoy!
San Diego August StandOuts; Featured Blogger; September Open Mic
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
San Diego August StandOuts
Judy Reeves – En Route: Beginning the Journey
Danielle Baldwin – Pool Party
Lawrence Johnson – A Cloud of Smoke
Josh Turner – A Little Grift
Featured Blog!
http://www.justsomebody.net
ABOUT JOHN WHITE!
On this blog, I write short stories and flash fiction about the soulful people in my life, trying to capture the bits of soul I prize in them. I post a new story just about every weekend, both here and on the palm tree in front of my house.
Really, though, this is a blog about people we all know. Sign up for a story a week, and you’re bound to read things here that remind you of the soulful people in your life, too.
And yes, I realize it should read “Just Somebody Whom You Used to Know.” I’ll try to get it right next time.
Friday, September 13, 2019 – OPEN MIC –
Host: Carrie DanielsonWhen: 6:30 p.m. Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings Where: San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station What: 3-minute prose read by the author Why: Supportive, fun, fascinating! How: Show Up! Cost: $5 Donation at the Door
San Diego August Open Mic and July Standouts!
Join us, San Diego!
August 9, 2019
Guest Host: Josh Baxt!
Bio: Josh Baxt is a science writer, novelist, stealth Haikuder, tomato maven, petulant parent, unrepentant backseat driver and bratty only child. He’s the little brother you always wished for.
6:30 p.m.Sign Ups; 7:00 p.m. Readings; San Diego Writers, Inkspot, Liberty Station 3-Minute Prose, read by the author.
Congratulations to our July DimeStories StandOuts!
Danielle Baldwin – Reading the Truth
Don Ryan – Unfinished Business
Nick Angello – Bad Hair Day
San Diego OPEN MIC! Friday, July 12, 2019
Join Us-
Get Those 3-Minute Stories Crackling!
GUEST HOST!
Bernie Nofel
Bio:
He’s not a bird.
He’s not a plane.
He can’t even leap tall buildings in a single bound.
But what Dime Stories’ July host, Bernie Nofel, can do is write, teach, and act.
A proudly long-suffering member of San Diego’s writing community, Bernie has perplexed, annoyed, and sometimes entertained fellow wordsmiths at Dime Stories, Wednesday’s Write Real Early, and Thursday Writes. Bernie recently published his first novel, a psychodrama called “Mirror Mirror. A Mystery”, and was honored to have a piece selected in this year’s Best of Dime Stories Anthology.
Bernie is an ensemble cast member for the Dinner Detective, and teaches public speaking for four local colleges. He has been a grant writer and secured important funding for non-profit charities throughout the community.
While he may not be stronger than a locomotive, he says his wit is indestructible and bullets do bounce off his chest.
He invites everyone to shed their alter egos this month and come to the microphone to share their story….and, never, ever, fear the Kryptonite….
“Look! Up in the sky!”
Congratulations to our June StandOuts! John Shaw, Kevin Hennessy, Nick Angello! Audios Coming Soon! Location: San Diego Writers, Ink, Liberty Station Time: 6:30pm Sign ups; 7:00pm Readings $5 Donation at the Door
San Diego June Open Mic! – May StandOuts
Join Us, San Diego DimeStoriers!
Friday, June 14, 2019
Guest Host: June Cressy!
Bio:
June Cressy has been writing since her early days in Brooklyn. A Year in Ink is the fifth anthology in which she is published. She has also been a co-editor of two anthologies. Currently she is working on a memoir.
6:30 Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings San Diego Writers, Ink 3-minute prose: memoir, fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essay, experimental
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MAY DIMESTORY STANDOUTS!
Listen and Enjoy!
Nick Angello – Sunshine in the Desert
Achi Mishra – Baby Steps
Tia Meredith – What I Want in the Spring
Bernie Nofel – Waiting Room
San Diego May Open Mic! April Standouts!
Join Us Friday, May 10, 2019
DimeStories Open Mic
Guest Host: 
Dick Cummins
Bio:
In the early ‘60’s Dick attended the U. of Iowa on a jock scholarship. This experience consisted of majoring in English and mostly jocking out, drinking beer and appraising the coeds.
His senior year, due to an encouraging rejection letter from a fiction editor at the New Yorker, he got into the vaunte
d graduate Iowa Writers Workshop, basically through a service entrance as it were.
Most of his classmates were from prominent families, Ivy League legacy or Stanford grads with trust funds. This meant that on the first of every month many pitchers of beer at Donnellys were provided by newly replenished remittance bank accounts. Being a street kid from the projects, Dick was way out of this league, but saved a lot of money on beer.
The story went that Robert Lowell had backed out of a workshop teaching position at the last minute so an author was found to take his place who had only four original paperbacks, some sci fi pulp and women’s magazine stories to his credit. No one had heard of Kurt Vonnegut but he was a better instructor than the often hung over Nelson Algren (Man with the Golden Arm/Walk on the Wild Side) and
Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road NBA 1960) who suffered a harrowing nervous breakdown during his second year.
Finally armed with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing, Dick got a teaching and coaching position at a tiny jock farm junior college in southern Iowa. In 1980, when his agent finally dumped him, he wrote a grant and started a reading and writing lab at the U. of Montana with 20 Apple IIe computers. A year later he was offered venture capital to start his own educational software company and he never looked back
Now retired from Twenty-First Century Research, a local area network company he owned in San Diego for 25 years, Dick is writing stories and memoir fragments and doing standup – when he can stay awake long enough. He also ha
s been getting on stage at Moth StorySlams in L.A. and Santa Monica.
3-Minute Prose, Some fiction, some fact, all true. 6:30 pm Sign ups; 7:00 pm Readings San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station; San Diego
Congratulations to our April Standouts!
Audios coming soon! 
Ali Juhdi – I Should Write Today
Josh Turner – Potus Interuptus
John Shaw – A Collection of Souls
Ed Coonce – The Obit That Won’t Quit and Nanninga