Upcoming Events
Oroboro Vol. 9 Submissions Close
Submissions for OROBORO Vol. 9 are currently
Open for Poetry, Fiction and Comics until
May 12th at 11:59pm mountain time.
Open Call: Erotica for In-Person Showcase
Death Rattle is looking for Erotica submissions for an in-person reading details TBA!
Full Details TBA but will be taking place last week of May or first week of June
💖 In-Person in Idaho Treasure Valley — Stay Tuned!
Submit Here
The Spill: Feast
True Stories Told Live on Theme:
FEAST
@FlyingMCoffeeGarage
4/20 @6:30pm
ALL AGES $5 donation
In partnership with @PrefunkNampa
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STORYFORT 2024 EKPRHASTIC POETRY SHOWCASE : WORK INSPIRED BY MUSIC
PERFORMANCES:
Tyler Brewington
CL Young
Mara Bateman
James Herbert
Diana Forgione
Benjamin Poofy
Daisy Clar Rosenstock
Hannah Rodabaugh
Leonardo Aleksander Ryan
Saturday, March 23rd
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Idaho State Museum
610 Julia Davis Dr. Boise, ID 83702
Work in Progress: In-Person Poetry Editing Workshop
A round table editing workshop - Make friends, read their poems, get constructive feedback and discussion of your work.
Limited to 12 students. Registration due by Feb 25th.
♡ achy✶breaky✶oke ♡
Karaoke night at Prefunk Nampa
Calling all cupids & cuties for a night of blushin and crushin featuring all your favorite
love songs, breakup songs, yearning songs, thirsty songs and everything in between.
Can’t wait to queue up the heart-breakiest, dream-makiest, love-takiest karaoke set ever!
Tip your KJ and donate directly to death rattle!
♥ 21+
Death Rattle Literary Underground: Local Poetry + Fiction Show in the Basement
Local Poetry + Fiction Reading in the basement @Shrine Social Club ✶
⭒ Line-up TBA and 2 Slots open for Sign ups!
If you'd like to get on the line-up, please email us
at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com with your info & what you'd like to read at the showcase! ✹
JANUARY 27 ⁂ 6:00pm doors ⁂ $5 Donation ⁂ ALL AGES
Open Call: Ekphrastic Work inspired by Music
Calling all poets, flash fiction authors, and hybrid writers! We are seeking Ekphrastic poems, micro fiction, and prose inspired by music: a song, piece of music, composition, song title, musician or band, or the like to be presented live and in-person at a Death Rattle Literary Showcase at Storyfort 2024 in March.
SUBMISSIONS DUE FEB 24
More showcase details TBA
The Spill: Festivus
OPEN MIC STORYTELLING NIGHT
Share Feats of Strength, Air your Grievances, or proclaim a holiday Miracle It’s a Festivus for the rest of us!
Quirky gatherings and seasonal feasts, big wins and winter revelations, holiday beefs and griefs, lucky breaks and good fortunes.
Death Rattle Fundraiser
We are fundraising for our upcoming fall and winter programming!
See more specific details on our gofundme about our upcoming submission opportunities, publishing endeavors for Penrose Poetry Prize and Oroboro and/or check out our calendar to see everything we’ve got coming up and coming up SOON! Thank you for helping uplift our arts community!
All donations, likes and shares help immensely!
THE SPILL: Tales of the Unexplained 4
OPEN CALL FOR first hand accounts dealing with the unsettling, the horrifying, the unexplainable, and the downright horrifying.
TALES OF THE UNEXPLAINED 4
At FLYING M COFFEE GARAGE
October 21 | 6:30PM | ALL AGES | $3
Scaryoke - Prefunk Nampa
The music will ROCK… heads will ROLL! Join is for a beer, wine, and karaoke fright night benefiting Death Rattle Literary. Get on the mic and get spooky scary, singing through the pain while helping support a neighborhood arts fundraiser! If these songs don’t scare you… you’re already dead!
Costumes highly encouraged!
Penrose Poetry Prize 2023 - Submissions Open
Submission Extension! Open now until Nov 30th (at 11:59pm mountain time)
Awarded for excellence in poetry by new, emerging, and established LGBTQIA+ artists as selected by our guest judge to be announced.
Neckar Poetry Reading: Local Poetry, Coffee, Wine
POETRY | COFFEE | WINE
Poetry Reading featuring Local Poets at Neckar Coffee
All Ages - $3-$5 Suggested Donation
The Spill: Intelligence
STORIES OF INTELLIGENCE
Storyteller slots OPEN for sign ups!
DM or email us to sign up for a storytelling slot or show up at the event and hop on the open mic.
Stories are 5 minutes or less, told candidly without the use of notes (like you would tell a friend) !
Hear from local poets Jon Schoenfelder and Atticus Kirkham expanding on the night’s theme 🧠
All Ages - $3 Donations going towards 2C Mutual AidWe are running a donation and supplies drive for 2C Mutual Aid
Doodlepalooza
FEATURING LOCAL ARTISTS
Lane Day (@artsupplyclub)
James Lloyd (@warlloyd)
Sarah Pincock (@artmuseum.edu_)
Dig Reeder (@digreeder)
Amy Gilles (@amygilles)
Snag some original artwork created live with audience prompts and participation with this live art auction fundraiser!
5 artists . 5 minutes. 5”x5” masterpieces for $5
@Prefunk Nampa
21+
Oroboro - Virtual Poetry and Prose Reading
please welcome some amazing folks who have been featured in Oroboro lit mag to the online stage for a cozy and intimate night of poetry and prose.
The Spill: Blunder Years
Come and share your dusty treasure for the world to laugh and regret and reminisce about together.
Come and tell us what the old you was up to!
Storyteller slots OPEN for sign ups!
Stories are 5 minutes or less, told candidly (like you would tell a friend) without the use of notes !
This event is proudly sponsored by Montucky Cold Snacks! All proceeds of purchases Montucky at the event and all donations at the door go towards funding our upcoming LGBTQAI+ literary contests and in-print copies of our lit-mag Oroboro!
Super Summer Karaoke Fundraiser for Penrose Poetry Prize 2023
Splash down and cool off with an ice cold beverage at upcoming Super Summer Karaoke Fundraiser for Penrose Poetry Prize 2023.
Come in your best patio hang attire and whip out those summertime bangers; road-trip singalongs, spicy dance classics, power-ballads, heartfelt anthems, favourite show-tunes and disney tracks, songs celebrating this hot and sultry season!
All donations at the event go towards funding our upcoming Penrose Poetry Prize 2023: Awarding cash prizes and publication for excellence in poetry from LGBTQIA+ Writers across the world.
Check out https://deathrattle.org/penrose-2022
for past winners and more about the award.
Work in Progress: Poetry Review Workshop
*𝘓𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 6 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴*
A writing workshop online with Zoom - Make friends and read their poems, get constructive feedback and participate in a round table discussion of your and other’s work.
Open to writers of all experience levels, the aim of these workshops will be to develop and build a mutually constructive vocabulary around poetry, enjoy, uplift, and discover each other's work as friends and fellows in the community.
Limited to 6 students so be sure to claim your spot! Register through our submittable at link in bio! See you there!
Flash Erotica & Fan Fiction Reading | 21+
Flash Erotica & Fan Fiction Reading @ Prefunk Nampa | 21+
Come on down to hear some romantic short fictions from local artists! Artist announcement TBA!
Past reading selections have featured trucks, monks, dragons, aliens, Shrek, tinder dates, yearning odes and Klingons. Show up to see our featured artists plumb the depths of your imagination and show us the richness of the heart ˚ ༘♡ ⋆。˚
We'll also have a limited run zine edition being released of past erotic stories read at past events so be sure to be here to snag a copy!
Open Call: Erotica Flash & Fan Fiction | In-person Reading
Flash Erotica & Fan Fiction Reading @ Prefunk Nampa
Death Rattle is looking for Erotica submissions for an in-person reading March 4! Fan Fiction Welcome! Word count can be as low as 250 and as high as 1200 You may use a pseudonym on our advertising if preferred.
Please send submission drafts to deathrattlewriter@gmail.com by February18th.
There are only 8 slots available so hurry to snag a spot on the line-up! Event will be 21+ only.
Past reading selections have featured trucks, monks, dragons, aliens, Shrek, tinder dates, yearning odes and Klingons. We want to see you plumb the depths of your imagination and show us the richness of the heart ˚ ༘♡ ⋆。˚
March 4 | Time TBA
Prefunk Nampa
21+
Achy-Breaky-Oke: Karaoke night for Songs of Heartbreak and Romance
Newsflash! calling all balladeers crooners and hearthrobs to @prefunknampa for a little fundraiser fling for Death Rattle! Join us for karaoke night featuring all your favorite love songs, breakup songs, yearning songs, thirsty songs and everything in between. Tip your KJ and donate directly to death rattle! Can’t wait to queue up the heart-breakiest, dream-makiest, love-takiest karaoke set ever!
February 11
6:30 pm
Prefunk Nampa
21+
The Spill: Coming Home
The Spill: Coming Home
Hear a story, tell a story | open mic storytelling night
December 10 6:00PM
Flying M Coffee Nampa
Death Rattle Poetry: 9th Anniversary Showcase
For our 9th anniversary we invite you to celebrate our local literary arts community in true Death Rattle spirit.
Stay tuned for our all locals line-up announcement and mark your calendar ✺
November 19th 6:00pm at Flying M Coffee Nampa
Free / Donation / Pay What U Can & All Ages
Penrose Poetry Prize Submissions Open
Penrose Poetry Prize: an award for outstanding poetry by LGBTQIA+ writers Submissions Open
now until January 15th 2023
We hope to do our part in championing new, emerging, and established LGBTQIA+ voices by awarding $200, $100, and $50 cash awards to one grand prize winner and two runners up, with works to be published in a special Penrose volume of Oroboro, and a special note on the first place work selected from our guest judge.
The Spill Tales of the Unexplained III: Open Call
Submit to tell your story! 5-6 minute storytelling slot, told without the use of notes (like you would tell a friend)! Email or DM a brief description of your tale to deathrattlewriter@gmail.com to sign up for a storytelling slot.
Click for storytelling prompt!
October 22nd @Flyingmcoffeenampa
Follow @spill_the_story
SCARE-E-OKE Death Rattle & Prefunk Fundraiser
Join us at PreFunk Beer Bar Nampa for a autumnal evening of ghoooooulish Karaoke on the heated patio of Prefunk Nampa.
Added bonus, your support at the bar directly supports Death Rattle’s 2022 endeavors in readings, events, equal opportunity workshops and physical/online publishing. It's things like this that make Death Rattle happen!
Wear a costume, bring out your wicked hits and haunting ballads and get ready to monster mash.
Tip your Karaoke DJ & bar tenders! 21+
The Spill: "Sports Sports Sports" Stories of Triumph and Tragedy
Open Mic, True Stories Told Live on theme "Sports Sports Sports" !!
Stories on everything athletics, getting that home run, swim meets, trying out for the team, getting picked first or last for dodgeball, Phys Ed disasters, watching sports on tv, going to sporting events live, going to the YMCA, picking up archery, trying to bowl a perfect game, queer sports, chess championships, Magic the Gathering tournaments, wargaming, sports video games tournaments with friends, getting those PF flyers because you’re obsessed with Sandlot that one summer, dance lessons, blue ribbons at the county fair, cheering on friends or family, slam dunks, taking the plunge, breaking your limits: the epic highs and lows of sports sports sports
LIVE! IN PERSON!
The Spill: Late Bloomer
Live! In Person! At the Flying M Coffee Garage Nampa
Open-mic, true stories told live on theme “Late Bloomer”
See the theme prompt here →
Oroboro Vol. 7 Submissions Close
Oroboro Vol. 7 Submissions close 11:59pm MST!
Send us your poetry, fiction, or comics here
The Spill: What are the Odds
Open-mic, true stories told live on theme “What are the Odds”
Chance encounters, bizarre coincidences, flukes of luck, surprising fortunes, fated moments, wacky evolutions of timelines, unexpected plot twists 🌎
Sign ups for 5 minute stories on the theme are open!
DM or email us at deathrattlewriter@gmail.com to sign up to regale us with your story
Register to attend here!
$3 Donation