LitUp Writers seeks humorous first-person essays about new beginnings, times you have reinvented your own wheel, transformed yourself or attempted a personal upgrade. Stories of either wild success or horrific failure are welcome. Ideally, we seek pieces that are both funny, but also personal; stories that reveal something about the author through a humorous lens.

Selected stories will be read, by the authors, before a live audience on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at Space Gallery in San Francisco. A mandatory rehearsal will be held on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at Space Gallery.

Please send all submissions, via e-mail, to litupwriters@gmail.com. Submissions must be 1,000 words or less. Deadline for submissions is November, 23, 2009.

LitUp Writers hosts humor readings of work written and performed by local Bay Area writers. For more information, please visit www.litupwriters.com.

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