FIVE THINGS - the sinfully delicious edition

It's the first anniversary of FIVE THINGS! Join Stacey Swann, Cecilia Ward Jones, Owen Egerton, Rudy Ramirez, and Tiff Holland as they offer grand fictional (or factual?) tribute to five of the more exciting deadly sins. You'll love it so much you'll bring a plague upon your land. Arrive early for music by Christian Hyun. Stay late for Abby Birds, Tyler Jordan and the Broken Necks, and Zapata Sparrow. Hosted by repentant angels Amelia Gray and Stacy Muszynski.

Doors open at 7:30p.m. Admission: $1. Location: United States Art Authority next to Spiderhouse Cafe (510 West 29th Street, Austin, 78705). Bring a couple bucks for a sinner's bounty of a raffle.

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Stacey Swann’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Epoch, Memorious, and The Saint Ann’s Review. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is the former Editor (and current Contributing Editor) of American Short Fiction. She is a *glutton* for coffee, Jane Austen, wheat beer, and—upon reflection—punishment.

Cecilia Ward Jones’s most recent literary achievement was winning the thriller division of the Texas Writers’ League novel contest. The thriller preliminary judge said her work wasn’t really thriller, but she included Cecilia in the finals anyway. Fortunately for Jones, the final judge was genre clueless. This makes Jones proud. *Too proud*. You'll see.

Owen Egerton is the author of the novel Marshall Hollenzer is Driving and the story collection How Best to Avoid Dying. His writing has been featured in or at Puerto del Sol, Killing the Buddha, Word Riot, KUT and elsewhere. Songs from his comic music CD Big Thick Wooden Board have appeared on VH1 and Dr. Demento. Egerton lives, *slothfully* when he can, with his family in Austin.

Rudy Ramirez is a man to *envy*. Writer, director, and performer Ramirez has explore radical history and sexual politics with The Rhizome Collective and Radical Encuentro, performed regularly at Camp Camp and The Dick Monologues, written and performed with Humdrum Collective in Food/No Food, and directed Luna Tart Died for 2008 Frontera Fest.

Tiff Holland has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her poetry and prose, already in dozens of magazines and anthologies, will soon be in Smokelong Quarterly and Night Train. Her poetry chapbook "Bone In a Tin Funnel" is available through Pudding House Press. Her work is concerned with gender--not sex, not *lust*. We'll just see about that on Sept. 4.

The bands:

Christian Hyun-- http://www.myspace.co...
Abby Birds-- http://www.myspace.co...
Tyler Jordan and the Broken Necks-- http://www.myspace.co...
Zapata Sparrow-- http://www.facebook.c...

Its been so long I can hardly think of five sinfully delicious things...LMBO