The Gothic Funk Salon is a curated reading series launched in 2020 to engage writers and readers from all over Flint and around the world. 

Initially hosted in a digital format in response to Covid, early installments brought readers from all around the country to one online destination to share their work with an audience of viewers, while enjoying drinks presented by resident mixologist Irène Hodes. You may stream these past events at the GFP YouTube account.

Since 2024, the Press has transitioned to in person salons hosted at Queens’ Provisions in the Carriage Town neighborhood of Flint, Michigan. We hope you’ll join us!

FORTHCOMING:

FEBRUARY 2025 SALON

The February Gothic Funk Salon will feature the work of Bob Campbell, Vivian Kao, Kimberly Matthon, and Michael Thomas.

$10 recommended donation includes entry in a raffle. Bring an original love sonnet (no AI!) for a chance to win a gift certificate to Queens’ Provisions.

OUR FEBRUARY READERS:

Writer Bob Campbell

Bob Campbell is a writer based in Flint. His debut novel, Motown Man, was published in November 2020 by Urban Farmhouse Press. His creative nonfiction, essays and novel excerpts have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Belt Magazine, Forge Literary Magazine, Hypertext Magazine, All Write in Sin City (podcast), and Gravel Magazine. He is a contributor to Belt Publishing’s Midwest Architecture Journeys, published in October 2019. His essay is titled “The Flat Lots of Flint: A Liminal State of Mind.”
 
 
Vivian Kao is Associate Professor of English at Lawrence Technological University. She is the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence at the Buckham Fine Arts Project, and her book of poems, Dear Mrs. River-Dragon, was published by Another New Calligraphy in 2024. Her poems have appeared in East Village Magazine and Apricity. She lives in Flint, Michigan.
 
 
Kimberly Matthon has lived in Flint for over twenty years, but nowhere has felt more like home than her own imagination. (She may also have paid a mortgage’s worth in frappuccinos at the local bookstore’s café, but that’s a whole other story.) Between working part-time in her family’s catering business, putting together Lego kits, and keeping track of her seven nieces and nephews, she somehow finds the time to write anything from poetry to novel-length works, most of which are in the genre of fantasy and science-fiction.
 
 
Michael Thomas is a writer and poet who specializes in short speculative fiction. He has had two works in the QUA and is working towards publishing his own collection of short stories. You can follow him and read quotes from the books he’s reading at: @azulbluewriter.bsky.social .
 

PAST EVENTS:

DECEMBER 2024 SALON
December 18, 2024
Featuring: Authors of the Gothic Funk Press

OCTOBER 2024 SALON
October 25, 2024
Featuring: Paul Counelis, Roxanne Rhoads

WINTER 2024 SALON
January 25, 2024
Featuring: Melodie Bolt, Kim Matthon, Roxanne Rhoads

SALON FLOAT
March 2, 2023
Featuring: Christine Borne, S.C. Megale, Reinhardt Suarez

SALON SHANDY
April 6, 2022
Featuring: Elisabeth Blair, Aaron Foley, and Kelsey Ronan.

SALON SPICED CIDER
October 27, 2021
Featuring: Bob Campbell, Sylvia Hubbard-Hutula, M.L. Kennedy

SALON HOT BUTTERED RUM
January 28, 2021
Featuring: Nic Custer, Bilal Dardai, Christine Maul-Rice

SALON JULEP
August 27, 2020
Featuring: LaTashia Carter-Perry, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Jan Worth-Nelson

SALON SANGRIA
July 30, 2020
Bob Campbell, Sarah-Jean Krahn, Reinhardt Suarez

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