I have two readings coming up. Both will feature work from my second book manuscript in progress.
First up, I’m giving a short reading as part of a benefit for Vignette Press’ Geek Mook. Here are the details, as taken from the page on Vignette Press’ website (and it’s also been listed as a Facebook event):
Geek Mook Fun-Razor — Dungeon Mook: Crawl to Mount Geek!
Will you be there? Or does the Fun-Razor have to come find you?
- Thursday 21 July 2011, doors from 7pm, starts at 8pm
- Bella Union, Level 1, Trades Hall, Corner of Victoria & Lygon Streets, Carlton South (enter off Lygon Street)
- Tickets: Pre-order online $12 + $2 booking fee or $15 on the door.
Tickets from the Bella Union website (http://www.bellaunion.com.au/program_guide/show_456)
A special, literary-themed Dungeon Crawl raising funds for Vignette Press‘ Geek Mook journal, to be published later this year.
Ben McKenzie and Richard McKenzie bring together the hottest comedy nerds to fight, bluff, bribe and possibly dance their way through a magical adventure, helped by your decisions and hindered by the devious Dungeon Master. Featuring a cast of bizarre heroes, dysfunctional villains and crazy quests – and of course, killing monsters and stealing their stuff.
Basically, the “Dungeon Crawl” comedy show for this event will be followed by a few short literary readings (which is where I come in).
Not long after the Geek Mook benefit, I’m going to Sydney to do another reading. It’s for the monthly event Penguin Plays Rough. I’ll be reading a long excerpt from my story “What are the attributes of God?”, which will even include a short film. I read an earlier version of the excerpt at this year’s Midsumma Festival and I really enjoyed it. (The full story is also going to be published in The Lifted Brow next month.)
Here are the details of the event, as taken from the PPR website (and, again, this has also been listed as a Facebook event):
Penguin Plays Rough
Saturday July 23, 8-11 pm
Bring your own mug and cushion to 4 Lackey St, St Peters to witness
Tom Cho
Ryan O’Neil
Sam Twyford-Moore
and two special secret people
read out loud with your very own eyes
(the witnessing will be done with your eyes, not the reading out loud. Though if you can do that, you will probably upstage everyone, so all power to you).
Pip has been hassling TOM CHO to read at PPR for over a year. And now, what with Japanese residencies out of the way, it’s finally happening.
Tom published a collection of short stories a few years ago called Look Who’s Morphing, in which the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, and Whitney Houston’s bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, a Ford Bronco 4×4 – and, as a climax, a fifty-five metre tall guitar-wielding cock rock star, who performs for the people of Tokyo, and an adoring troupe of sexy fans.
Tom’s book was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and Pacific), 2009 Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and Melbourne Prize Trust’s 2009 Best Writing Award.
But for PPR, Tom tells us, he will be sharing a brand new story (which will even feature a short film!). So this is definitely a PPR not to miss.
Tom is coming all the way from Melbourne to read to you – and just in case that didn’t make you feel special enough, RYAN O’NEIL is going to press pause on his very own house-building and schlep all the way from Newcastle to read to you too.
We’re also going to hear SAM TWYFORD-MOORE’s very nearly prize-winning story, Everything We Did in a Different Order.
Oh, and there are two ladies waiting in the facebook shadows I’m yet to surprise you with, and the finest of mulled wines, and the cosiest of heaters to toast you up all the way to your very toes.
See you on the 23rd,
Pip & Lucy
I’ve only given one reading from my 2nd book so far, so this will be really exciting for me.
Tom and 
tom_cho hey congrats on the reading gigs!