San Diego DimeStories August Open Mic
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: August 10, 2020San Diego DimeStories
Virtual Open Mic
Friday, August 14, 7:00pm
Pacific Time
via Zoom
Email: SDDimeStories@gmail.com for the link
Join us to honor two members we lost this month:
John Van Roekel and Don Ryan
Virtual DimeStories on the road with San Diego Writers Festival!
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: June 15, 2020
Join us for Virtual DimeStories June 27, 5:00 p.m. as part of the Virtual San Diego Writers Festival!
From SDWF: For the last 15 years, DimeStories San Diego has worked to provide as many opportunities as it can for authors of tiny tales to read their stories to a live audience. If you fear rejection, but want to hear applause–this open mic is for you. All stories will be recorded and some will be selected by the curators to be posted on the DimeStories and San Diego Writers Festival websites so that you can amaze and delight your pals.
From DimeStories: INSTRUCTIONS!
San Diego DimeStories is excited to join San Diego Writers Festival via Zoom, Saturday, June 27th at 5:00 p.m. DimeStories are three-minute prose stories read by the author. All genres welcome as well as all ages and experience levels. DimeStories is for pure enjoyment of the written word, no comments, no critique, we are here to support and applaud.
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Get your stories polished and timed. (We are strict about three minutes!)
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Between Friday, June 26th and June 27th, check the San Diego Writers Festival website: https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/summer-days/
or the DimeStories website
https://dimestories.org/ and find access to the Zoom link.
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The first fifteen to sign in will read.
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If you don’t want to read but want to join us PLEASE DO! Listen at: https://www.facebook.com/events/3318014191566832/
Thanks to San Diego Writers Festival for inviting DimeStories to join such a great event. We look forward to “seeing” you and hearing San Diego’s writers share their 3-minute prose.
CANCELED San Diego March DimeStories CANCELED; ENJOY February StandOuts!
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: March 11, 2020
DimeStories!
Friday, March 13! CANCELED
San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station; 6:30 Sign Ups - 7:00 Readings; 3-Minute stories read by the author; LISTEN AND ENJOY!
Congratulations to our February DimeStories StandOuts!
Mark Drozda – Cupid’s Crisis
Tom Waldron – Helpless and Radiant
June Cressy – One Last Time
Don Ryan – Water and the Holy Ghost
San Diego DimeStories February Open Mic
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: February 7, 2020Join Us!
Listen to January StandOuts Below
Friday, February 14, 2020
Guest Host: Richard Diaz!
I grew up in Joliet, IL (as in Joliet Jake of The Blues Brothers) and migrated to Chicago.
Fiction growing up? The Bible, Sunday comics, Verne, Poe, The Adventures of Tin Tin, …
Did time in the pastor’s office: something about questioning the teachings in bible school.
In middle school played hooky. Afternoon matinees. Learned the power of Story. Bonnie and Clyde: a fragile love story told in violent images and sounds.
Afterwards I drifted toward non-fiction:
HS science teacher
Science textbook asst. editor
Medical copy editor —AMA
Environmental health inspector and manager (tons of manuals, guidance docs, policies, procedures, etc).
Did a summer at Time in Manhattan on a paid fellowship, Mass Media Science Writing, sponsored by the AAAS.
Fun, but still no fiction until I ran into DimeStories.
I had held off some months on reading much like a baseball player scouting opposing pitchers. Better come with your A-game.
Wonderful venue.
Time: 6:30 p.m. Sign Ups: 7:00 p.m. Readings
Location: San Diego Writers, Ink; Liberty Station
3-Minute prose read by the author
Come read and listen or just listen!
Congratulations to our January DimeStories StandOuts
Bonnie Bishop – Two Hands
Josh Baxt – Endless Blue Sky (Excerpt)
Lawrence Johnson – Cold Knight Fog
Tracey W. Andreae – Florence and Fluffy Go for a Walk
TONIGHT! January 10, 2020 DimeStories Open Mic
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: January 10, 2020Join Us for the first Open Mic of 2020!
Read Listen and Enjoy!
6:30 Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings
San Diego Writers, Ink
$5 Donation at the Door
Congratulations!!!!!
December DimeStory StandOuts!
Belinda Kein – Dear Santa
Cheryl Sonstein – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Mark Drozda –Nothing Funny
Richard Diaz – A Little Thrust-Tailed Dog
December DimeStories Open Mic
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: December 13, 2019See you Tonight! December 13, 2019 
6:30 Sign Ups; 7:00 Readings San Diego Writers, Ink $5 Donation at the door 3-minute creative writing read by the author
Congratulations! to November’s San Diego DimeStories StandOuts!
Mark Drozda – Exit Strategy
Cheryl Sonstein – She Took Out a Calculator
Carrie Danielson – Saving Seymour
San Diego DimeStories Open Mic
Posted by: Carrie | Posted on: November 7, 2019Join Us! November 8, 2019
Guest Host: Barbara Huntington
Barbara Huntington has been a civil rights worker, teacher, computer mail order house CEO, technical writer, marketing analyst/consultant, and director of a university program to assist underrepresented students as they enter PhD programs. She retired in 2013 as Director of Preprofessional Health Advising at SDSU and in co-author of Writing About Me: a Step-by-Step Guide to Developing a Powerful Personal Statement for your Application to Medical School. She has a BS in Zoology from SDSU and an MBA from UCLA.
Barbara lives in Chula Vista with her dog Tashi surrounded by a drought-tolerant garden where she grows her own organic vegetables and walks her labyrinth of rocks and succulents. For several years she has published poems and stories in The Guilded Pen, The San Diego Poetry Annual, and A Year in INK. Last year she read her Scary Poe Story, Obtain a Blacklight as Soon as Possible on KPBS Midday Edition. It can be heard on Beth Accomando’s Cinema Junkie. Barb”s blog is: https://barbarahuntington.com
6:30 – Refreshments; 7:00 Readings – San Diego Writers,Ink – $5 donation
CONGRATULATIONS September StandOuts!
Ed Coonce, Kary Vail, Bernie Nofel, Zoe Ghahremani!
DimeStories selected them as our September StandOuts. Hear the audios below.
Listen and Enjoy!
Zoe Ghahremani – An Iranian-American’s Deja Vu
Bernie Nofel – Knock Knock Joke
Kary Vail – When Bad People Go to Heaven and Good People Go to Hell
Ed Coonce – The Argumentative Smart House