Alia Volz

“Get Your Head On” selected for The Writing Disorder’s “Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2012″

aliasgone — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:11:36 +0000

Read the story on www.thewritingdisorder.com

The Litquake Author Interview

aliasgone — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:24:26 +0000

Alia Volz: Chaos in a Fur Coat See Alia Sunday, October 7, at Vesuvio for “Do You Come Here Often?”: Writers at the Bar, with Alan Black, Jack Boulware, Beth Lisick, Chuck Thompson, and Missy Robac. 1. What is your favorite book? It must be As I Lay Dying, because I’ve reread it more than any other [...]

Sexy Litquake ‘Password’ to Prohibition

aliasgone — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:49:43 +0000

San Francisco Chronicle - by Louis Pitzman Published 05:53 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Alia Volz participates in a Litquake event called “PASSWORD: Litquakeâ€™s Literary Speakeasy,” in which Bay Area authors dress up as, and read from, Prohibition-era writers. Volz charakter is Louise Brooks. San Francisco, Cal. on Monday, July 16, 2012. Photo: Sonja Och, The [...]

PASSWORD: Litquake’s Literary Speakeasy

aliasgone — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:21:16 +0000

July 19, 2012, 8:00 PM Public Works 161 Erie Street $15 in advance; $18 at the door Buy advance tickets online NOTE VENUE CHANGE: Public Works, 161 Erie St. (off Mission St. between Duboce & 14th St.) San Francisco, CA Join us as we take you back to America’s Prohibition era with PASSWORD: Litquake’s Literary Speakeasy, featuring Prohibition-era cocktails, [...]

Six-Word Memoir

aliasgone — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:33:36 +0000

Snazzy event this Thursday night! I’m spinning a yarn about a magical batch of matzo ball soup that outlived its maker by…years. Oy. In this live production of the extremely popular Six-Word Memoir Project, eight Bay Area Jewish personalities take to the stage to share clever, thoughtful, and humorous life stories. Participants include SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik, Literary [...]

Beast Crawl: The Kraken

aliasgone — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:50:32 +0000

Saturday, July 7th, 8:00 – 9:00PM. Era Art Bar & Lounge. Oakland, CA. During Leg 3 of the Beast Crawl, a fabulous five-headed creature sloshes out of the Bay to fill brains with stories of laughter and woe, horror and insight… Beth Lisick Carolyn Cooke Rakesh Satyal April Sinclair Craig Clevenger Hosted by Alia Volz It’s [...]

“Vacajun”

aliasgone — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:07:40 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M7m4DmGD_0&feature=related

Here's Litseen's video of a reading I gave at Inside Story Time, December 15, 2011. The story "Vacajun" appeared in Dark Sky Magazine.

aliasgone — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:05:35 +0000

INTERVIEW WITH ALIA VOLZ BY SETH AMOS Alia Volz’s story, “Vacajun” appeared in Dark Sky’s Issue 11. Here Alia talks about stereotypes, insomnia, and her earliest memories of magical desserts. Seth Amos: Your website says that you started writing during a long trek across the Iberian Peninsula, what was it about the journey that inspired you? [...]

New work in Dark Sky Magazine

aliasgone — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:42:07 +0000

VACAJUN BY ALIA VOLZ Way down in a bayou town. Just for kicks, my love, you and me, we don’t know this place. No infusion bars, vintage boutiques, or multilevel movie theaters; no yuppies or hippies or hipsters. People here lean too close, and slur through log lips, and you can count their swampy teeth. Hey, [...]

BAN6 Presents: LDM at YBCA!

aliasgone — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:58:50 +0000

Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:00 PM It’s the most exciting thing to ever cost absolutely nothing! BAN6 presents Literary Death Match! Sponsored by ModCloth and The Written Wardrobe, this thrilling FREE event takes place at beautiful Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In a never-before-attempted feat of flexibility, four authors will read original work written especially for LDM, and inspired by paintings in YBCA’s BAN6 [...]