{"id":8162,"date":"2019-05-09T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2019-05-09T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:18:11","slug":"denver-westword-the-six-best-literary-events-this-week-reading-with-wendy-j-fox-at-bookbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8162","title":{"rendered":"Denver Westword, The Six Best Literary Events This Week: Reading with Wendy J. Fox at BookBar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-Life-Full-Cover-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-Life-Full-Cover-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-Life-Full-Cover-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wild-Life-Full-Cover.png 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Many thanks to Westword for including my reading tomorrow night with Wendy J. Fox at Bookbar Denver on this list: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/things-to-do-denver-book-readings-and-literary-events-may-14-to-19-2019-11332800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Six Best Literary Events This Week.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Kathy Fish is regarded as one of the leading voices in flash fiction (stories usually under 500 to 1,000 words). She comes to BookBar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookbardenver.com\/event\/author-event-kathy-fish-wendy-fox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read from, discuss and sign<\/a>\u00a0her collection\u00a0<i>Wild Life<\/i>, which brings together fifty flash stories, drawn from a decade and a half of work in the medium. Joining Fish for the event is Colorado Book Award finalist Wendy Fox (<i>The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories<\/i>), reading from her new award-winning book\u00a0<i>If the Ice Had Held<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though I tend to avoid my piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/jellyfishreview.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/13\/collective-nouns-for-humans-in-the-wild-by-kathy-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild&#8221;<\/a> for readings, I plan to read it tomorrow night in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/08\/us\/kendrick-castillo-denver-stem-shooting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kendrick Castillo<\/a>, who was killed in the act of rushing the shooter to save his classmates at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch. Like everyone around the country and especially here in Colorado, I am both heartbroken and angry and hoping for movement and change regarding our gun laws in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Westword for including my reading tomorrow night with Wendy J. Fox at Bookbar Denver on this list: The Six Best Literary Events This Week. &#8220;Kathy Fish is regarded as one of the leading voices in flash fiction (stories usually under 500 to 1,000 words). She comes to BookBar to read from, discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,142,259,404,405,472,538,587,644,647,830,886,937,1068,1076],"class_list":["post-8162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collective-nouns-for-humans-in-the-wild","tag-bookbar-denver","tag-denver-westword","tag-gun-sense","tag-gun-violence","tag-jellyfish-review","tag-kendrick-castillo","tag-literary-events","tag-mass-shootings","tag-matter-press","tag-readings","tag-school-shootings","tag-stem-school-shooting","tag-wendy-j-fox","tag-wild-life-collected-works-from-2003-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}