Death Rattle has always relied on it’s strength of community -- being able to gather together to celebrate each other and your presence of work. While public gathering has in the past been a staple of the ways in which we as a community celebrate one another, Death Rattle will be as committed as ever to providing platforms for that same celebration while we all stay safely at home. That being said, due to Covid-19 we have made the hard decision to postpone the 2020 Death Rattle Writers Festival until 2021. We want to do our best to not encourage unnecessary travel or public gatherings of any kind during this ongoing pandemic including during the coming fall and winter months which are projected to be just as unsafe.
Going forward we are excited to announce the next few months of virtual programming.
Here you’ll find our calendar featuring an online open mic poetry reading, online peer review workshops for poetry and fiction, the publication of volume 3 of Oroboro, a cash prize LGBTQIA+ poetry award for Pride Month, and an electronic version of The Spill. Please stay safe and keep on creating and we will see you very soon (ON THE WEB)!
RSVP and sign up to participate in upcoming a reading, workshops, submissions!
Find and check back with our calendar under Programming.
Additionally, Our small editing staff at OROBORO would like to offer our reading services. If you were ever wishing to send some of your work to a dedicated team of readers and writers for specific one-on-one feedback and editing, we are here to work with you! Sliding-scale pricing available.
Find our editing information and staff here.
We look forward to better serving readers and writers in our community this coming year.
You can reach us for inquiry at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com
STAFF
Diana Forgione
Co-founder and Programming Director
of Death Rattle Writers Festival
Editor for OROBORO
Open for editing and reading services for poetry and submissions.
Diana Forgione is a non-binary writer and workshop facilitator in the Northwest region. Diana uses poetry to examine the underlying nature of humanity as it’s experienced; attempting to discern the essence of love, suffering, lust and queerness. They are the Co-Founder of Death Rattle Writers Festival, Head Editor for OROBORO, andjudge and workshop Instructor for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Their work can be found Reality Beach among other places.
MFA in Creative Writing, BFA in Film Theory
Judge and Workshop Instructor for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
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dianaforgione@deathrattlewritersfest.org
Dig Reeder
Co-founder and Grant Writer
at Death Rattle Writers Festival
On a cold and rainy day in Burlington Ontario, amongst the machinery and whistles of the steel factories, the cry of a newborn baby was heard. That baby grew up across Canada and the US and is a painter and a playwright.
Past Artist in Residence at Bown Crossing
Judge and Workshop Instructor for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
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digreeder@deathrattlewritersfest.org
Nicholas Darlinton
Founder and Event Director at The Spill
Director at Idaho’s Scholastic Writing Awards
Nic has studied literature and writing as a middle and high school teacher, collaborating with like-minded educators. He has two stories in the 2015 edition of The Cabin’s Writers in the Attic collection Animal.
Masters in English Education from Boise State
Boise State Writing Project Fellow
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nicholasdarlinton@deathrattlewritersfest.org
Sarah Pincock
Board Member + Design and Marketing for Death Rattle Writers Festival
Editor for OROBORO
Open for editing and reading services for comics and fiction.
Sarah Pincock is an illustrator making comics that reimagine history with genderqueer and fabulist interpretations of medieval iconography and storytelling. They are currently working on a comic anthology about Hawthorne spells and bunches of comics on top of that. You can find some of their comics in Anomaly and FORGE + you can follow their work @artmuseum.edu_ or subscribe to their monthly by-mail comic newsletter Magic Leaf here.
BFA in Illustration and Photography, AA in Creative Writing
Judge and Workshop Instructor for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
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sarah@deathrattlewritersfest.org
Reed Bills
Board Member + Event promotor and designer
A writer and artist currently living in sin.
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reedbills@deathrattlewritersfest.org
