Long Beach (Zoom): Writing Sucks But To Have Written Is Best

March 11

Joe Donnelly

“Writing Sucks But To Have Written Is Best”

Joe Donnelly is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at Whittier College and the editor of Red Canary magazine. His newest collection is So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World. His short story “Bonus Baby,” which first appeared in Zyzzva, was selected for the O.Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the year 2016, to name only one of his long list of credits. He is a former deputy editor of Los Angeles Weekly. In his multimedia career he has interviewed, among others, Colin Powell, Lou Reed, Ray Charles, Desmond Tutu, Sean Penn and Drew Barrymore.