New Washington area women's short story anthology is out

Great tatoo if a woman, or hapless romantic

The new anthology Gravity Dancers features new stories all from DC area female writers, and they took over Politics and Prose last night to what I've heard was a great success.

This was one of those posts that should have gone up before the event Sunday, telling you how awesome the reading was going to be and to support your local writers, but here I am, a day late, telling you that 200 people graces the Politics and Prose bookstore to hear the reading (I'm planning a wedding, in a far off place called PA, so wasn't able to attend, in case you asked, which you didn't, but if you had, okay, I'll stop writing as if we're talking this through).

The book is published by Paycock Press and is the 4th volume of DC area women's fiction edited by Paycock's Richard Peabody. One of our own, DC Yoga Examiner is in it as well!

Peabody also publishes the great Gargoyle magazine (where Rita Dove, T.C. Boyle, Russell Edson, Allen Ginsberg, and Rick Moody have appeared) and also previously edited anthologies of short stories by DC area male writers.

I don't know of another anthology that encapsulates the short story of the DC Metro area, so if you're interested in seeing what DC has to offer, you should pick up Gravity Dancers (one more aside, I haven't bought it, re: wedding, but will soon, promise).