MOUTHFUL
An Open Mic for Open Minds

New Voices Open Mic is proud to announce a new night and a new name! Mouthful: An Open Mic for Open Minds will meet every second Friday of the month to turn the mic over to your original writing in any genre - and after the reading we’ll adjourn to a local eatery to chat informally about writing and whatever else comes to mind. Come to read or come to listen: our goal is to build a community of writers and readers that supports women and their allies.

7:15 PM signup, 7:30 PM start.
$5 donation requested at the door.

J.G. (Joe) Hayes is the author of two short story collections about being gay/growing up gay in South Boston, This Thing Called Courage, and Now Batting for Boston, the latter of which was named GLBT 2005 Book of the Year by USA BookNews. He is also the author of the recently released novel A Map of the Harbor Islands, which explores the complicated friendship between two life-long South Boston friends, one of whom is gay, and one not. He is also an artist and hung a one-man anti-war show last spring at Patti Hudson’s Art Market Gallery in Jamaica Plain entitled When Fitzy Comes Marching Home Again. He is a member of United for Justice With Peace, the Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, and periodically teaches at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed. He also plays the bodran and djembe. His blog is located at www.thisthingcalledcourage.blogspot.com