The man doesn't seem to like writers.

If you know about the Cyberpunk Apocalypse, you probably know about the raid on our house during the G20 in Pittsburgh. If you keep up with Science Fiction, you may have heard about Dr. Peter Watts who was beaten and detained on the Canadian border. Most recently Gabriel Kuhn's inability to even book a flight for his American speaking tour has come to my attention. It had been our intention to help him set something up at one of Pittsburgh's fine Universities, but unfortunately the writer is on a list. And, in the world today it is important to stay off of lists. Read more about it on his blog.

On a brighter note, tomorrow Jan 30th is Walker's reading event!
Here's another teaser.

Walker preview.

Here's some video of Walker reading earlyer durring his stay in Pittsburgh. Don't miss his goodbye story session!

Saturday Jan. 30th

6pm (be prompt so we can all go see Daniel Higgs!)
Cyberpunk Apocalypse
5431 Carnegie St. Pittsburgh!

General Updates

Of course we are all excited about Brenda moving in. Brenda Battad has done readings with other members of the house before. Elwin has been working to schedule an east coast reading tour for his new book while I've been sketching out a rough cover design (right). The book is to be published by our friends at 6 Gallery Press and is an excellent collection of urban fantasy and black folk tale-inspired stories that are uniquely Elwin.

If anyone knows of great east coast book stores or literary venues that Elwin should make a point of putting on the tour, feel free to email us at cyberpunkapocalyse(at)gmail.com

I'm also doing the layout for the next Cyberpunk Apocalypse issue (finally) as well as a short zine of erotic fiction stories that will be for sale at the reading we are setting up at Artist's Image Resource Center on Thursday the 11th (right before Valentine's day).

Don't forget to check out the reading at 225 Morewood Avenue. 7-9pm. Featuring Elwin Cotman (best reader in town, says small Nathan), Walker Mettling (our visiting writer (super cool dude)), and others.

New Visiting Writer-January

Congratulations to Walker Mettling. He has just been accepted to the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Visiting Writer program for the month of January 2010. He plans to polish a book of weird stories while at the house. He'll also be giving some sort of performance related to the stories before he goes, so keep an eye out for that. And check out his blog in the meantime.