Bicentennial: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Join the UC San Diego Library as we celebrate the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This 1818 novel is considered by many to be the first published piece of science fiction. To celebrate this horror/sci-fi classic, a spoken/written word event is being hosted at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31 in the Seuss Room of Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Submit short works of horror prose or Frankenstein-themed poetry (or pen a letter to one of the novel’s characters, or submit fan mail to the author!) No more than 200 words for this bicentennial exercise. You’ll have the opportunity to read your short notes, odes, letters, prose, poems, elegies and flash/micro-fiction, aloud at the event (or we’ll have someone read it for you) on Halloween. Please email your work to [email protected] by or before Oct. 29 and relay if you plan to read aloud. Arriving guests: tell the registration desk if you’d like to read for an absent, timorous or incorporeal author.
This event is free and open to the public. Also that night: enjoy experimental libations at our refreshment laboratory and eerie music from our haunting house band. Info: [email protected]