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* Photos above from Fray Cafe in Austin, Texas. Were you there? What is fray day? Fray Day is an annual event brought to you by the storytelling website {fray} that takes place in cities all around the world on the same weekend. Each event features interactive art, featured performers, and a storytelling open mic. [Press release.] Other stuff: » Frequently Asked Questions Donate to Fray Day
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Cincinnati's Featured Speakers Learn more about the featured speakers in Cincinnati. We're honored to be part of it. But the stories we REALLY want to hear? YOURS! Deborah Kendrick Deborah Kendrick is an award-winning journalist, editor, columnist, and poet. Her weekly column on living and thriving with disabilities, "Alive and Well," was syndicated by King Features in 2000. It has won numerous awards from organizations including the Society for Professional Journalists, Association of Women Communicators, National Easter Seal Society, AFB Access Award, American Occupational Therapists Association, and the Inclusion Network Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1985, Deborah founded TACTIC, an international quarterly on assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired. TACTIC was purchased in 1999 by the American Foundation for the Blind to launch their own technology publication, AccessWorld, for which Deboarah is now a contributing editor. Deborah has published features, editorials, profiles and reviews in Parenting, Woman's Day, Executive Lifestyles, Dialogue, St. Anthony Messenger, and many others. Her first book, Jobs to be Proud Of, won the Vernon Henley Media Award and is in its second printing. She is currently working on the fourth book in a series called Jobs That Matter, also published by AFB Press, and featuring blind and visually impaired professionals in various categories of employment. Deborah’s poetry has appeared in two anthologies. She has three children and lives in Cincinnati.
Mike Maul’s short stories have been published in Sphere magazine (Ohio University), Intro 4 (University of Virginia Press), Mississippi Valley Review (University of Illinois) and Cincinnati magazine. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing. Mike is the founder of award-winning public relations firm Wordsworth Communications. His employment history includes Manpower laborer, cowpoke in east Texas, assistant professor, and janitor. He is a founding member of the Isolotaos motorcycle club. He has volunteered for organizations ranging from Junior Achievement to the Minority Business Committee of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Steve Kissing works part-time as a copywriter for Barefoot Advertising in Cincinnati. He spends the other half of his workday writing for publications including Cincinnati magazine, for which he serves as a contributing editor. He is at work converting a story he wrote about his childhood and teen years for that magazine into a full-length autobiography. Steve’s copywriting has won local and regional awards from the American Advertising Federation, and his feature writing has been praised by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their two daughters, Maggie, age 6, and Grace, age 4. He’s also quite passionate about fly-fishing.
Mary T. Helmes writes TV, radio and print advertising for clients like StarKist, Wrigley Healthcare and LaRosa’s pizzerias. Very occasionally, she wins things like a citation at the 2000 New York Festival of Advertising. She also won a story writing contest in Cincinnati CityBeat’s 2000 Literary Issue, and had her story Real featured on {fray} in April, which finally got her back into creative writing. Mary T.’s career includes stints as an airborne traffic reporter, jazz DJ, freelance writer, community newspaper reporter and editor of horrible chamber of commerce promotional books for the likes of Hazleton, Penn. What she does lately is garden, write songs, fret about money and post long diatribes about single life at halfmadspinster.com.
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Fray Day 5 took place
Grand Rapids >>> Minneapolis >>>
Austin >>> Boston >>> Burlington >>> Cincinnati >>> Kyoto >>> San Francisco >>>
Los Angeles >>> Melbourne >>> 
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