Featured Writers
We are interested in giving local writers the opportunity to share their work. Interested in reading at a future event? Let us know!
Explore the writers who read at All Things Out Loud in the past:
JAMES BUCHANAN is a writer living in Exeter, New Hampshire. He earns his living ghost writing books on a number of subjects, and he writes as much fiction and narrative nonfiction as he can. He can be found online at orchardwriting.com.
DAVID CHEVALIER writes speculative fiction, which lets him explore any kind of scenario or backdrop that could serve a story. In writing, his main interests are characterization and story. He wants to write an entertaining, compelling story with characters that feel genuine to whoever reads them.
MICHAEL CHMIELECKI is a 32-year-old New Hampshire nayive living and writing in Nashua. For most of his 20s he lived in Los Angelos where he read his poems at open mics across the San Fernando Valley. His work has been published in Aalst Magazine, TMP Irregular, Aegis and The First Hay(na)ku Anthology. He also writes a weekly poem called Mike’s Accursed Verse for the Daily Limerick, a website based out of Chicago.
E. CHRISTOPHER CLARK is an author, family historian, and all-around geek who is passionate about storytelling in all its forms. His first book, Those Little Bastads, is available now from echristopherclark.com He is at work on his second book, a novel entitled Down on the Cape. He is also the founding editor and chief contributor to GeekForceFive.com, where five loaves of fresh geekery are delivered daily.
CHUCK GALLE was well known in Washington DC in the late 50′s as DC’s worst Beat Poet, but he had a lot of fun anyway. In 1962/3, he and Lee Holland published three issues of OUTCRY Magazine, which included work from Charles Bukowski and Scotland’s Ian Finlay. He has published poetry and several short stories. Currently he is revising his memoir, Stories I Never Told My Daughter, and adapting it to the stage. A reading is planned for August or September.
JUSTINE GRAYKIN blogs for “ArtSpider” and writes a monthly column for the Deerfield Historical Society. She supplies cat stories for cartoonist Roberta Gregory, and creative captions for photographer Scott P. Yates, the I SPY guy. Mostly she writes speculative fiction, and has had short stories published in Shimmer, Crossed Genres, and Speculative Mystery Iconoclast, anthologized in Currents, and scheduled for publication in Arkham Tales. She has one published SciFi novel, Awake Chimera, and is collaborating with illustrator Jeremy Couturier and her husband, Larry Graykin, to create an audio version of her latest novel, Archimedes Nesselrode, posted as a podcast with artwork on her site, justinegraykin.com.
JOHN HERMAN is an artist, writer, teacher, and web adventurer. He is passionate about art, media, and storytelling and creates community through creative collaboration. You can learn more about John at johnherman.org.
ERIC L’ECUYER is a freeance editor and a dabbler of short stories and fiction. Though still unpublished, he has completed two novels and over twenty five short stories to date. He has no preferred genre and tends to write whatever looks good on paper. His main inspiration comes from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, and Chuck Palahnuik. He helped establish the Deep Thought writing workshop in Milford, NH. He hopes to expand the workshop into Manchester and Nashua.
GREGORY L. NORRIS is a full-time professional writer routinely published in national magazines and fiction anthologies. He worked as a screenwriter on two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and is the author of The Q Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and two paranormal romance novels featured on HSN in September.
NICK PLANTE is a freelance web application software mercenary who blogs at blog.zerosum.org He is also invisible.
LESLIE POSTON is passionate about helping people and businesses find their way to success via technology. As a writer, she has over 200 ebooks and books in her repertoire, including Twitter for Dummies with Laura Fitton and Michael Gruen. She is also president of the social media training company Uptown Uncorked.
P.T. SULLIVAN grew up in Hampton, New Hampshire and went on to college, where he received degrees in marketing and photography. Recognized by the country of Ireland as a photographer/artist, he has become more focused on his writing of late with help from Ernest Thompson and Whitebridge Farm Productions. P.T. can be found online at pt35mm.com.
RANDY TOMPKINS is a writer, guitarist, and the creator of Device magazine, a multimedia exquisite corpse project. His band Winterstar is finishing a debut album and his side project, Chinchilla Party just released an album at chinchillaparty.bandcamp.com.
