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The National Writers Union will be hosting a reading and open mic on Monday, April 20, starting at 6:00 p.m. at 2955 E. Broadway in Tucson  -- our 20th anniversary reading. 

This month our featured reader will be Ron Pullins, who will read from his recently published novel, The Dollartorium, which he calls a satirical and timely sneak peek into late-stage capitalism looking into the worst aspects of contemporary business culture, including marketing/advertising, value in money, hiring/firing, the entrepreneur, etc. Perhaps not entirely unrelated to these themes, he also hopes there is an interest in discussing his take on the current state of book publishing — writing, publishing and marketing — via one of the growing number of independent presses.

Ron is a writer working in Tucson whose works have been published in numerous journals including Typishly (Editor’s Choice), Southwest Review, Shenandoah, Sunspot and The Cafe Irreal. He won the 2022 Malcolm Lowry award for Dollartorium. His plays, long and short, have won awards and been produced from coast to coast. From 1985 through 2014 Ron started and ran a publishing company, Focus Books, which published educational texts for secondary and higher education with an emphasis on Classical and Modern languages, English, Philosophy, and theater. The publishing list was sold to Hackett Publishing in 2014

The open mic is for spoken word only, but is open to all forms of spoken word (fiction, essays, poetry, articles, polemics, etc.). So bring something to read!

The event will be held at the UFCW Union Hall at 2955 E. Broadway. This is on the north side of Broadway, immediately west of the large and fancy Chase Bank, which is on the northwest corner of Broadway and Country Club Road. Parking and entry are from the rear.

There will not, unfortunately, be a Zoom option this month. 

Hope to see you there!