Alia Volz

“Vacajun”

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

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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 [...]

Bastille Day Gets The Litquake Treatment

aliasgone — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:59:05 +0000

July 14th, 2011 – 8:00PM San Francisco’s Literary Festival presents Cabaret Bastille, an evening that celebrates left bank bohemia and the American authors who left the US for La Ville Lumiere in the 20s to pursue their literary destiny, champagne (occasionally real pain) and sex, love and more, more, more; Authors who will channel their Jazz Age counterparts include [...]

Alia Volz <<< Litseen's Pick of the Week

aliasgone — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:42:58 +0000

Sun Jan 23 11, Fivepoints Arthouse By (Evan Karp) If you haven’t you should check out videos from {Blush}. This month’s Portuguese Artists Colony gave us several contenders for Pick of the Week, but ultimately there was no way we could pass on “Lani Lancaster and the Bionic Man,” by Alia Volz. Aldo takes my [...]

NOT SO FAST!… Writers Reading from New Works.

aliasgone — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:02:05 +0000

Thursday, March 31 – 8:00PM Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street, SF Featuring new work by Beth Lisick, Kelly Beardsley, Bucky Sinister, Alia Volz, Jack Boulware and Alan Black. Show up at our reading or we’ll beat up your mom.

Literary Death Match, Ep. 37!

aliasgone — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:58:55 +0000

San Francisco February 11, 2011 Get your red hot discount tix here! Have you missed us, San Francisco? We vanquished 2010 with a bang and a splat! The new Literary Death Match now rises from the ashes. And we’re feeling fine. Join us as we charge into the fray with a quiver of lethally funny [...]

Before You Were Born: Stories from our parents’ surprisingly romantic youth. This week: two free spirits exchange psychic readings in ’70s San Francisco.

aliasgone — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:21:55 +0000

Nerve.com, December 3, 2010 By Alia Volz My parents, Doug and Mer, exchanged psychic readings on a blind date. Though they’ve since divorced, I recently reunited them to ask about their unusual romance. I would like you, my beloved parents, to take a trip back in time. It is now January of 1977 — D: [...]

“SFB” Excerpt

aliasgone — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:15:04 +0000

Sticky Fingers Brownies is the true tale of a high-volume marijuana brownie business my family owned and operated during the 1970s. This excerpt is from an interview with Shari Mueller, The Rainbow Lady, who unwittingly founded “the biz”. This oral history originally appeared in Instant City, Issue 6. ===================================================== The Rainbow Lady of Fisherman’s Wharf …So I [...]