CL Space will be the site of Wild celebration tonight.
"Wild" was the theme of this year's Creative Loafing Fiction Contest, and besides being the impetus for way too many bad editorial puns, it also yielded a bumper crop of terrific stories by Florida writers. Karen Brown, an award winner herself for such books as the wonderful story collection Pins & Needles, chose the Top 10 entries in the CL contest. Readers then got a chance to vote online, and tonight we'll announce both the Readers' Choice and Karen Brown's selection for the Judge's Prize. The winners and Brown will read from their work, and we'll honor everyone in the top 10, who are (in alphabetical order):
[jump]David Bullard, Ashley Bowcott, Cynthia Daffron, Frank Drouzas, Rhonda Kitchens, Brian Lott, Matt Peters, J. Wynn Rousuck, Jon Silman, and Kelsey Tressler.
CL Fiction Contest Winners' Reading and Reception. Wed. Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m., CL Space, 1911 N. 13th St. (above Spaghetti Warehouse, entrance on Ninth Ave.). Admission free. Public is invited.