THE ENCLAVE IX: THE FESTIVAL OF GHOST-CHILDREN

Featuring: Gerald Hansen, Jon McMillan & Others

Saturday, December 15th 3:30 PM
Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, 212-979-9762
For updates and more info email: enclavianmatter@gmail.com
Free and open to the public

"So the ghost-children marched down the valley and fell into the abyss. Their passage was brief. And their ghost-song or its echo, which is almost to say the echo of nothingness, went on marching, I could hear it marching on at the same pace, the pace of courage and generosity. A barely audible song, a song of war and love, because although the children were clearly marching to war, the way they marched recalled the superb, theatrical attitudes of love."

Know where this quote comes from? Come to Kenny's on the 17th and find out. It's a rare opportunity to hear some of the east coast's most innovative writers on the cutting edge. Come. Be a part of The Enclave.

GERALD HANSEN is the author of the novel An Embarrassment of Riches. He lived for years in his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland and attended Dublin City University. As a Navy brat, he grew up in California, Thailand, London, Iceland and Germany. He now lives in New York City. His website is: www.geraldhansen.vpweb.com.

JON McMILLAN graduated from the MFA program at the New School University, where he won the Chapbook contest for fiction. His work has appeared in the magazines Dirt and Five Points, and on the music blog stereogum.com. His story "Born on Fire" was selected as one of the "100 Distinguished Stories of 2005" in the Best American Short Stories 2006 anthology. He is currently at work on a novel.

ALBERT CHEN covers major league baseball for Sports Illustrated and SI.com. A graduate of Yale College, he has lived in Nebraska, Maryland, and New York City. He is currently at work on his first novel.

MIKE SANDERSON is a writer who has lived in Brooklyn before it was hip. He has many ideas.

STACEY ROBINSON grew up in a farming community in Antarctica during the great Depression where she subsisted on a macrobiotic diet of mustard seeds, seals and blubber. Her hobbies include falconry, sex toy distribution, and whittling. When she isn't using her free time to mend the ozone layer or clean oil slicked baby seals, she writes.

Coordinated by The Enclave Writers Association