10/27: KGB Bar Reading: Halloween Horror Night!

Halloween Horror Night: Clay McLeod Chapman & Sarah Langan

FREE at the KGB Bar: 85 East 4th Street btn 2nd and 3rd Ave

CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, the novel miss corpus, and the new middlegrade series The Tribe: Homeroom Headhunters. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.

SARAH LANGAN is a three-time Bram Stoker award winner. Her short story “The Lost” won the Bram Stoker Award in 2008 and her novels, The Missing and Audrey’s Door won in 2007 and 2009. Sarah grew up on Long Island and went to college in Waterville, Maine, where she published her first story, “Sick People”. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her influences include Russell Banks, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Kelly Link, Somerset Maugham, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Eudora Welty, the films of Ingmar Bergman and Will Ferrell, all media relating to Rodney Dangerfield, the movie The Jerk, and the band The Eels. In addition to writing novels, she is also pursuing her Master’s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology at New York University.

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction Series showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

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