ARTSPEAK RADIO August 2017 Edition

Wednesday August 9, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Jessica Conoley, Kristine Barrett, Debbie Barrett-Jones, Regina del Carmen, Rochelle Wisoff Fields, and Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography members to the program. Jessica Conoley was raised on 80’s action films, Jem and the Holograms, X-Men, and older-brother mandated Star-Wars. Decades later she started writing fantasy novels, flash fiction, and award winning essays. In 2012, she became the Managing Editor of Kansas City Voices arts and literary magazine. Get a free sneak peek of her work at http://jessicaconoley.com/ Saturday night, August 12 2017 from 5-7 p.m. at the Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, KCMO. Kansas City based author, Jessica Conoley, takes to the stage for a reading from her debut fantasy novel, The Color Eater, followed by a Q&A with the author. Event is free to the public, with all attendees receiving a free download of Conoley’s essay collection, My Great Escape. Raffle tickets available for purchase at the door for prizes from Kansas City based vendors. (All proceeds from the raffle go directly to the artist to support travel costs for an upcoming writer’s retreat.) For more details go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1865980780334304/ or http://jessicaconoley.com/events/ Contact info: [email protected] or via her website…