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Monday May 20th, 2013 USU Beach Auditorium at 7PM

CSULB English Department RipRap 35 Publication Release Party && Annual MFA Graduate Reading Featuring Fiction and Poetry:

Kevin Chidgey  Jen French Fabiola Guzman Monica Holmes Hannah Huff Sean McDougal Jax NTP Mae Ramirez Mony Vong

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Rescheduled Release Party for RipRap 35

The editors of Riprap regret to announce that there has been a delay with the release of RipRap 35 and that we have no choice but to  reschedule the release party and reading. It will now be combined with the MFA Graduate Reading on May 20th, which is being held in the USU Beach Auditorium at 7:00pm. We truly hope that all of the very fine contributors to RipRap will still be able to participate in this celebration.

The editors also wish to thank the many students who showed up earlier this week to get the issue collated and ready for binding. The failure of the print shop on campus to get the binding done, on schedule, is a substantial disappointment for all of us who worked (literally) day and night to get the final product ready for public distribution.

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause and hope that you will still be able to join us for the unveiling.  Thank you for your understanding and support.

On behalf of the editorial staff, Jax NTP

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RipRap Literary Journal - 35th Anniversary 

CSULB English Department’s Annual Publication

Release Party - Issue 35 - Spring 2013 

Thursday, 5/9/13 @ 7PM @ CSULB’s Beach Auditorium 

Jax NTP, Editor-in-Chief  Ben DuVall, Design Dwight Pavlovic, Cover Image

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RipRap Literary Journal - 35th Anniversary 

CSULB English Department’s Annual Publication

Release Party - Issue 35 - Spring 2013 

Thursday, 5/9/13 @ 7PM @ CSULB’s Beach Auditorium 

Jax NTP, Editor-in-Chief  Ben DuVall, Design Dwight Pavlovic, Cover Image

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Poetry Reading: Rae Armantrout

Date: April 18, 2013

Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Location: USU Beach Auditorium

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/poetry-reading-rae-armantrout/

MFA Reading Series #5

Date: April 19, 2013

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location: Viento y Agua (4007 E. 4th St. Long Beach 90814)

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/mfa-reading-series-5/

READERS' BIOS Mark B. Friedlander  a fourth-generation resident of Los Angeles, lives in his adopted hometown of Riverside, CA and is a first-year MFA student in poetry at CSULB. A retired social services professional, his poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Evening Street Review, Oberon, San Diego City Beat, and San Diego Reader. Jen French  is a second year fiction student in CSULB’s MFA creative writing program. She is currently working on her thesis, which is a collection of short stories that focus on the dark complexities, oddities and humor of the human psyche. When she’s not writing stories of pedophile compounds, hateful crones and heroic hallucinogen peddlers, she enjoys spending her time swimming in the Pacific and dancing to cumbia. Mary Kinard  received a BA with an emphasis in Creative Writing in 2008. While pursuing an MFA Fiction degree at CSULB, she makes time for scrapbooking, the works of Frank McCourt and Rick Bragg, and collecting insects with her grandsons. She loves God and Pennsylvania above apple pie and bright flannel shirts. Ramsey Mathews  is a first-year MFA poet. He grew up in rural Georgia. As a kid he worked in tobacco, soybeans, and peanuts, where he learned the art of cow tipping. He camps and climbs, especially at Joshua Tree, where he broke his leg. “When all other inspirations fail, there remains the surreal nature of love to write about.” Jax NTP  is a second-year MFA poet, Editor-in-Chief of RipRap Literary Journal Volume 35, and the Coordinator of this MFA Reading Series. Her thesis and poetry explore the psychology of the grotesque, identity&gender binaries, and “neurosity” the velocity of neurotic paralysis in both modern and surreal environments. She has an affinity with Jellyfish and Polaris. Matthew Ramelb is a first year MFA Fiction. Originally from West Maui, currently residing in the beautiful city of Lawndale. South Bay surfing enthusiast. Cassady Ozimec  is a first-year MFA fiction writer. He’s from Santa Ynez Valley, California. He likes to paint, ride his bike, drink beer, write, travel, and look at people. If he weren’t an MFA student, he would be a matador in the Barrio Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Espana. Please enjoy responsibly. Olivia Somes is a first-year MFA poet. She’s President of HipPoetics, CSULB’s Creative Writing Club. She won the William T. Shadden Scholarship Award for Poetry in Spring 2011. Her first chapbook, Life After Purgatory, was released in Fall 2012 and is available for purchase. She loves narrative and snarky contemporary poetry, dystopians, small presses, tacos, beer, barbecuing, and laughing at bad television. She hopes to one day write a graphic novel and a television pilot.

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*WED 3/20/2013 - JEFFREY MCDANIEL - POETRY READING CSULB’S SOROPTIMIST HOUSE @ 7PM

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/poetry-reading-jeffrey-mcdaniel/

*FRI 3/22/2013 - 2nd ANNUAL MFA READING SERIES, 4th INSTALLMENT GATSBY BOOKS 5535 E SPRING ST, LONG BEACH, CA featuring poetry and fiction @ 7PM

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/mfa-reading-series-4/

*THURS 3/28/2013 - ELOISE KLEIN HEALY 1st Los Angeles Poet Laureate CSULB’S SOROPTIMIST HOUSE @ 7PM

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/poetry-reading-eloise-klein-healy/

Events Sponsored by  Jax NTP, Editor-in-Chief of RipRap Literary Journal Olivia Somes, President of HipPoetics Creative Writing Club California State University, Long Beach’s English Department 

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Silver Birch Press’s Scintillatingly Silvery 2012  SILVER ANTHOLOGY: Poetry & Prose Reading 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 2-4PM @THE WINE CRUSH 3131 East Broadway Long Beach, CA 90803 TheSilverAnthology Features Writing by: John Brantingham. Chiwan Choi. Barbara Eknoian.  Donna Hilbert. Linda King. LeeAnne McIlroy Langton.  Gerald Locklin. Tamara Madison. Clint Margrave.  Daniel McGinn. Ann Menebroker. jax NTP.  Kathy Dahms Rogers. Conrad Romo. Luke Salazar.  Joan Jobe Smith. Clifton Snider. Dale Sprowl.  Paul Kareem Tayyar. Jeri Thompson. Margaret Towner.  Steve Williams. Pamela Miller Wood. Fred Voss.  w/Special Reading by Kevin Lee of Jack Micheline

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Acceptances, Declinations, & Art Submission EXTENDED

Thank you anyone and everyone for submitting to RipRap Literary Journal, Vol 35.

Acceptance and Declinations for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction pieces will be announced via email by Tuesday, January 8th, 2013.

Art Submission Deadline (of all mediums: painting, illustrations, photography, etc) for RipRap35 is being EXTENDED until Monday, January 14th, 2013. Thus, if you were too busy, please feel free to submit and pass this message along to an artist friend!

Best Wishes, Jax NTP Editor-in-Chief. 

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California State University, Long Beach 

English Department - Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing

*2nd Annual MFA Reading Series 3rd Installment

Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 6:45PM

Our Reading Line Up:

Sean McDougal

Fabiola Guzman

Monica Holmes 

Ramsey Mathews

Mony Vong

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READERS' BIOS:

Monica Holmes is a second-year MFA fiction writer. She likes pretty much everything about Long Beach, except that it has no mall. Her writing focuses on childhood and growing up in southern California. She dedicates all her writing to her father, who first taught her there was a "t" in "listen."

Fabiola Guzman is a second- year MFA poet. She also enjoys writing nonfiction and hopes to publish a memoir in the near future. Family is an important aspect in her life which can bee seen as a powerful force in her writing. She has over forty cousins and counting. She dislikes hurting any creatures including mice and ninja spiders. In her spare time she indulges in snowboarding, hiking, swimming, and video games. Some of her favorite foods include raspberries and salami.

Ramsey Mathews is a first-year MFA poet. He grew up in rural Georgia. As a kid he worked in tobacco, soybean, and peanuts, where he learned the art of cow tipping. Thus, his Southern poems. He camps and climbs, especially at Joshua Tree, where he broke his leg. More poetry . Ramsey says, "When all other inspirations fail, there remains the surreal nature of love to write about."

Sean McDougal is a second-year MFA fiction writer. What initially drew him to writing was lyric writing, having sang and played guitar and piano in bands since age ten. Because of lyric writing, he was first interested in poetry, but then moved over to fiction because the lengths of the narratives and the attention to details put into prose writing. He is currently working on a novel about a young man who lives next to a military base. The novel will focus on one particular week during a summer. Sean and his wife own and operate a photography business and they live in San Diego with their two children. 

Mony Vong is a second year MFA fiction writer. She received her BA with an emphasis in Creative Writing from CSULB. Long Beach has been her home for a long time though she’s not a native speaker of English. She moved here when she was in grade school. She has three tremendous children who keeps her on her toes. In addition to being a writer and a mother, She’s a lover, a girl, a purveyor of books, an adult and the domestic goddess. She’s lived in many places and countries but the place she’s most comfortable in is in the The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, Mice and Men, Ask the Dusk, and Charlotte’s Web among many other favorites. 

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Bring Your Friends and Family and a Happy Attitude.

For Questions & Comments

Contact Editor-in-Chief, JAX NTP

RipRapJournal@Gmail.com

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Cal State University Long Beach English Department, Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing 2nd Installment of the MFA READING SERIES Nov 14th, 2012 at The Wine Crush

Poetry + Fiction + Everything in Between

hannah huff: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/video/flash/english/jaxntp/hannah.html

cassady ozimec: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/video/flash/english/jaxntp/cassidy.html

jax ntp: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/video/flash/english/jaxntp/JAX.html

jen french: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/video/flash/english/jaxntp/jen.html

olivia somes: http://www.csulb.edu/lats/itss/design/video/flash/english/jaxntp/olivia.html

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @6:45PM

Cal State University Long Beach, Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing 2nd Annual MFA Reading Series - Fall 2012 - 2nd Installment

The Wine Crush 3131 E. Broadway Ave Long Beach CA 90803 www.thewinecrush.com 

For Questions and Comments Contact Editor-in-Chief, JAX NTP RipRapJournal@Gmail.com

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WRITERS' BIOs:

Hannah Huff is a second-year MFA poet. She likes writing about unusual, overlooked things that you might discover stuck in your sock or in the middle of the desert. Her greatest accomplishment is making up a word, soumage, to describe the blending of sound and imagery in the three dozen poems in her thesis-in-progress. You can usually find her playing Xbox Live, running around the San Gabriel Valley, or staggering across Las Vegas, looking for poems in tequila shots.

Cassady Ozimec is a first-year MFA fiction writer. He’s from Santa Ynez Valley, California. He likes to paint, ride his bike, drink beer, write, travel, and look at people. If he weren't an MFA student, he would be a matador in the Barrio Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Espana. Please enjoy responsibly.

Jax NTP is a second-year MFA poet. She’s Editor-in-Chief of CSULB English Dept’s 35th Annual RipRap Literary Journal. She’s also the Coordinator of the MFA Reading Series, a total of six installments. Her MFA Thesis and poetry explores the psychology of the grotesque, identity&gender binaries, and the paralysis of neurosis in both modern and surreal environments. She has an affinity with Jellyfish and Polaris.

Jen French is a second-year MFA fiction writer. She is currently working on her thesis, which is a collection of short stories that focus on the dark complexities, oddities and humor of the human psyche. When she's not writing stories of pedophile compounds, hateful crones and heroic hallucinogen peddlers, she enjoys spending her time swimming in the Pacific and dancing to cumbia. She's a part-time charity employee and a full-time eccentric.

Olivia Somes is a first-year MFA poet. She's President of HipPoetics, CSULB's Creative Writing Club. She won the William T. Shadden Scholarship Award for Poetry in Spring 2011. Her first chapbook, Life After Purgatory, was released in Fall 2012 and is available for purchase. She loves narrative and snarky contemporary poetry, dystopians, small presses, tacos, beer, barbecuing, and laughing at bad television. She hopes to one day write a graphic novel and a television pilot.

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Short Fiction and Creative Non Fiction Up to TWO stories or essays may be submitted. Do not exceed a combined total of 20 pages or 5,000 words. Manuscripts must be double spaced, Times New Roman or Courier New. Include a header with title and page number. Do not include your name on the header or footer.

Poetry Up to THREE poems may be submitted. Do not exceed a combined total of 6 pages. For poems over one page, include a header with poem title and page number. Do not include your name on the header or footer.

Artwork Original artwork such as photography, illustrations, paintings, comics, graphic art, etc may be accepted as well. Up to THREE pieces may be submitted. A hard copy may be submitted but a digital copy must be emailed as well. Emailriprapjournal@gmail.com for further information.

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 @6:45PM at The Wine Crush 3131 E. Broadway Ave, Long Beach CA 90803 www.thewinecrush.com

Cal State University Long Beach, Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing 2nd Annual MFA Reading Series - Fall 2012 - 2nd Installment WRITERS’ BIOs:

Hannah Huff is a second-year MFA poet. She likes writing about unusual, overlooked things that you might discover stuck in your sock or in the middle of the desert. Her greatest accomplishment is making up a word, soumage, to describe the blending of sound and imagery in the three dozen poems in her thesis-in-progress. You can usually find her playing Xbox Live, running around the San Gabriel Valley, or staggering across Las Vegas, looking for poems in tequila shots.

Cassady Ozimec is a first-year MFA fiction writer. He’s from Santa Ynez Valley, California. He likes to paint, ride his bike, drink beer, write, travel, and look at people. If he weren’t an MFA student, he would be a matador in the Barrio Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Espana. Please enjoy responsibly.

Jax NTP is a second-year MFA poet. She’s Editor-in-Chief of CSULB English Dept’s 35th Annual RipRap Literary Journal. She’s also the Coordinator of the MFA Reading Series, a total of six installments. Her MFA Thesis and poetry explores the psychology of the grotesque, identity&gender binaries, and the paralysis of neurosis in both modern and surreal environments. She has an affinity with Jellyfish and Polaris.

Jen French is a second-year MFA fiction writer. She is currently working on her thesis, which is a collection of short stories that focus on the dark complexities, oddities and humor of the human psyche. When she’s not writing stories of pedophile compounds, hateful crones and heroic hallucinogen peddlers, she enjoys spending her time swimming in the Pacific and dancing to cumbia. She’s a part-time charity employee and a full-time eccentric.

Olivia Somes is a first-year MFA poet. She's President of HipPoetics, CSULB's Creative Writing Club. She won the William T. Shadden Scholarship Award for Poetry in Spring 2011. Her first chapbook, Life After Purgatory, was released in Fall 2012 and is available for purchase. She loves narrative and snarky contemporary poetry, dystopians, small presses, tacos, beer, barbecuing, and laughing at bad television. She hopes to one day write a graphic novel and a television pilot.

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*Event Flyer Courtesty of Ben DuVall 

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CSULB's RipRap 35 Info Party + 2nd Annual MFA Reading Series + HipPoetics Gathering

*RipRap 35 Info Party We Will Discuss: -How, Where, When To Submit Your Work -How To Be Involved With The Submission Selection Committees -Address Any Questions About RipRap Literary Journal *2nd Annual MFA Reading Series #1 2012-2013 Our Reading Line Up: -Kevin Chidgey -Jessie James -Mary Kinard -Renee Moulton -Matthew Ramelb *Join HipPoetics: CSULB Creative Writing Club There will be Free Food & Free Copies of Previous RipRap Journals! Please Support Our Venue and Purchase a Glass of Wine! [you only have to be 21+ to drink, all ages are welcome!] Bring Your Friends and Family and a Happy Attitude. For Questions & Comments Contact Editor-in-Chief, JAX NTP RipRapJournal@Gmail.com

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