Duke City (Albuquerque) DimeStories The next open mic is tomorrow! April 21, 2016 at 7pm at The Source, 1111 Carlisle Ave SE in the Blue Room. Mix and mingle with fellow writers of very short prose, share your 3-minute story (that’s about 500 words), or come and listen. $3-5 donation requested. Refreshments will be served. Costa…
January DimeStories from the Duke City 2016
Well I don’t know what happened…. one minute we were celebrating New Years, then the Anniversary Showcase, and now it’s St. Patricks Day and the year feels like it’s half over! We do have audio for our January BEST Ofs from Albuquerque: Jess Atcherley, “Dashed Dreams on the Rainbow Coast” Dee Cohen, “Mable Makes…
In Memory Of: Mopsy Matthews
One of our Albuquerque DimeStoriers passed away on January 25, 2016. Mopsy had become a semi-regular attendee (in between her international travels) at our monthly open mic events and a couple of her stories had been selected as a Best Of. Mopsy had also been attending my Monday Writers drop-in group. I hadn’t seen her…
Duke City DimeStories Anniversary Showcase 2016
DUKE CITY DIMESTORIES CELEBRATES SIXTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENT: DimeStories Anniversary Showcase DATE: 3 p.m. Sunday, February 21 LOCATION: Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 Duke City DimeStories, Albuquerque’s only open mic for prose, will celebrate its sixth year with a showcase of DimeStories selected from the best of the past year’s monthly…
Tips for Reading at a DimeStories Event
Select the proper piece of PROSE. It should be a story 500 words—or less. Really, you don’t have to use all three minutes. Nothing wrong with leaving your audience wanting more…. Edit with a razor. Look at every word. Does it belong? Does it contribute to the meaning? Is there a strong narrative voice? Vivid imagery?…
December 2015 DimeStories
San Diego DimeStories took place on a cold and rainy night the 2nd Friday in December at the home of San Diego Writers Ink down in Liberty Station— you’ll hear the planes landing at nearby Lindbergh Field in the recordings… but the sound of those planes didn’t stop the readers from sharing their stories. The…
Heard in Albuquerque: December 2015 News
November’s Duke City DimeStories featured some amazing creative stories and the three favorites were: Kim Adonna’s “Casette Tape Poem” Terri Klein’s “Food Thief” Jess Atcherly’s “If Only I Could l Meet Oprah” In the spirit of Thanksgiving, however, I’m posting the other stories, which includes Susan Paquet’s call-and-response story and the second…