Hidden Agendas Release Party
January 15, 2006 at the Club Deluxe in San Francisco. (Photos by Kia Simon and Ericka Lutz)

Alison Bowman recounts getting outwitted by a marmot

Audience members enjoy the scene at the Club Deluxe

Bill Sonnenschein, Ralph Manak and Carolyn Hubbard (in the background)

Short story writer Katie Flynn

Big Ugly Review Poetry Editor Miriam Pirone reads a poem by Valerie Coulton

Clara Silverstein's sister reads a poem on her behalf

Deirdre Woollard drove up from LA for the party

Elizabeth Stix emcees

Eric Schniewind and Elizabeth Stix

Eric Schniewind tells his tale of getting lost and found

Essayist Joe Loya

Fiction writer Katie Flynn

Filmmaker Kia Simon and Big Ugly Review editor Elizabeth Stix

Filmmaker Kia Simon documents the evening

Flash fiction writer judy b.

FOBUR Donna Hunter and friend

FOBUR Ralph Manak and friend

Issue 1 contributor Ericka Lutz

Issue 2 contributor Ellen Weis and friend

Jeff Greenwald, Nell Bernstein, Diane Aranda and Joe Loya

Jeff Greenwald talks about maps

Music contributor Steve Yerkey chats with photo-essayist Tom Erikson

Nell Bernstein and Diane Aranda (and a little bit of Laura Fraser)

Nell Bernstein talks about children of the incarcerated

Poet Carrie Katz

Songwriter True Margrit at the piano

Travel and humor writer Alison Bowman and boyfriend Isaac
