SCARS 10th Anniversary Event
PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS and Grimey’s New and Preloved Music invite YOU to join us as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the release of SCARS — the first collection of her writings that candidly reveal her battles with child abuse, domestic violence, molestation, addiction, crime, incarceration, and recovery.
Hosted at Nashville’s pop-culture mecca, Grimey’s New and Preloved Music, the evening’s entertainment includes live readings by the author, nadia bruce-rawlings, and an appearance and readings by “blue-collar” published writer and poet, Dan Denton. Performances by Nashville music duo, The Prickly Pair, will compliment the festivities. The event starts promptly at 5pm on October 26, 2024 at 1060 East Trinity Lane; Nashville Tennessee, 37216; and is free to the public. A limited amount of signed copies of nadia’s book will be available for purchase while supplies last or pre-order YOUR COPY now for pick-up at the event.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Nadia Bruce-Rawlings has written a collection of stories with a dark humor and candor that only someone with a survivor's gratitude can. She takes us on a journey that cracks open family secrets, illustrating the evolution of dysfunction from its very core. She reminds us, as children we do not get to choose our surroundings, while relying on our parents for protection, love, and nurturing, preparing us for our own adult journey into the world, and that more times than not, this isn't the case. Because parents get abused and scarred, by their parents who got abused and scarred, by their parents, and so on. And with each generation the trauma grows, becoming a collection and a reflection of an ongoing tradition of generational abuse. This book is written based on Nadia's experiences on the front lines of her own personal battles with child abuse, domestic violence, molestation, addiction, crime, cutting, incarceration, and recovery. After hitting a bottom so hard with only two options left, life or death. Nadia drives home the sad and brutal truth that not everyone gets that choice. Many do not live to tell. This book is written for them, an epitaph. This book is also a love letter and a promise that there is hope for a better life, written for the ones that are still out there, still fighting their way in, and not out, who have lost their way, and still collecting scars. -Iris Berry, PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS
ABOUT DAN DENTON AND THE PRICKLY PAIR
Dan Denton is a former union autoworker, UAW Chief Steward, lifetime blue-collar worker, writer and poet. His writing has been published in magazines, newspapers, union journals, anthologies, and often in Toledo Streets Newspaper. He has authored three books, which include two acclaimed novels, $100-A-Week Motel (Punk Hostage Press, 2021) and The Dead and the Desperate (Roadside Press, 2023) and a poetry/novella hybrid, as well as dozens of chapbooks of poetry, and he has toured as a spoken word artist for over a decade. Last year he was voted the best writer and author in Toledo, and after accepting an early retirement buy out offer from Toledo Jeep, he now lives full-time in a small travel trailer out in rural parts of the Midwest, chasing his biggest writer daydreams.
Mason Summit & Irene Greene are The Prickly Pair — a Nashville-based duo specializing in angsty Americana originals and classic country covers. Their latest single, “It Takes Two to Cry,” was released August 20.
Poets, Sinners, Songslingers featuring Nadia Bruce-Rawlings
Join us for an intimate evening of POETS, SINNERS, SONGSLINGERS featuring nadia bruce-rawlings, Amelia White, and Megan Palmer on December 2, 2023 at one of Nashville’s hidden gems: Caliber Coffee.
Cups & Conversation featuring nadia bruce-rawlings
Join nadia for a FREE community mixer at Caliber Coffee Co., as we recognize National Revoery Month with an evening of poetry readings, live music, and…good coffee, of course! FREE coffee will be served while supplies last!
Grab your seat (and some coffee) before the event starts at 5:30 at Caliber Coffee Co. — 2513 Lebanon Pike, Nashville (Donelson) Tennessee, and be sure to say “hi” to nadia.
Poems on the Strange — Three — featuring Nadia Bruce-Rawlings
This is the third installment of "Poems On The Strange"
Each artist will read for 15 or so minutes .... Come on out and hear some great words to enrich and inspire your existence. Please bring some tip money for the jar or Venmo. LOVE and PEACE
Amelia White loved by Rolling Stone Country and NPR for her prolific catalogue of songwriting has jumped forms and has self published “ Home On The Strange,” a book of poems. “The unsaid and unseen are rich soil in which Amelia White allows herself to be known.”
“Nadia Bruce Rawlings uses grains of her once gritty life to infuse her stories with cathartic realism” She’ll be reading from her books “Driving in the Rain” and “Scars” both published by Punk Hostage Press.
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins’s poems (King of the Fireflies, Sensitive Skin Books) lead through landscapes-- urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual-- and the borders between them, with the voice of a figure in those landscapes, struggling to navigate love, loss, and mortality while juxtaposing natural and human-made environments.
Poems on the Strange 2 feat. nadia bruce-rawlings, Amelia White, and Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
After receiving an amazing amount of feedback from her premiere appearance at The Bowery Vault last year, nadia bruce-rawlings makes a return for another thought-provoking evening of poetry in an intimate setting!
PLEASE OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOL AS LISTED ON THE VENUE’S PAGE:
Friday February 11th 2022
Showtime 5pm-6:30pm
Limited seating and entrance.
1 drink minimum per guest.
Electronic tipping available for your artists at venue.
No door cover.
21+ Show.
Face masks required at this time.
Must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or COVID-19 Negative test result (within 72 hrs of event) at door.
"Poems on the Strange" - a Night of Poetry Readings feat. Nadia Bruce-Rawlings
East Nashville welcomes acclaimed writer Nadia Bruce-Rawlings to The Bowery Vault for an intimate evening of poetry readings. The event will also feature Amelia White and Rebecca Weiner Tompkins.
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE’S COVID-19 POLICY:
LIMITED SEATING AND ENTRANCE
ONE (1) DRINK MINIMUM PER GUEST
ELECTRONIC TIPPING AVAILABLE FOR THE ARTISTS AT VENUE
NO DOOR COVER
SANITIZING STATIONS AVAILABLE
SOCIAL DISTANCING HIGHLY ENCOURAGED
FACE MASKS REQUIRED
MUST SHOW PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION OR COVID-19 NEGATIVE TEST RESULT (WITHIN 48HRS OF EVENT) AT DOOR
21+ SHOW
A Night of Prose, Poetry, and Music — feat. Nadia Bruce-Rawlings and Dan Denton
Join writer Dan Denton, musician Patrick McGee, writer Trina Stolec, and writer Nadia Bruce-Rawlings for a great night of poetry, prose and music!
Dan Denton, author of $100-a-Week Motel, and Nadia Bruce-Rawlings, author of SCARS and DRIVING IN THE RAIN will bring their Punk Hostage Press best to you, while musician Patrick McGee will liven it all up with his own special brand of cheer! Drew Coomer with play and maybe grace us with a poem or two. Trina Stolec will bring it all together with her lush poetry. Enjoy a night out in Donelson at Phat Bites! The event is FREE and great food and drink is available for purchase, as always.
RSVP and get location info on nadia’s official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2811023795824245/?ref=newsfeed
LIVE Online Book Release Party
Join Punk Hostage Press for an intimate online celebration of the release of the highly anticipated book, Driving in the Rain, by nadia bruce-rawlings! The OFFICIAL BOOK RELEASE event will be presented online via Zoom, featuring readings by the author, nadia bruce-rawlings, Iris Berry, and Michele McDannold!
Find Login Details and RSVP online via nadia bruce-rawlings’ Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/NadiaBruceRawlingsWriter
6pm Central | 7pm Eastern | 5pm Pacific