Watchword Press Presents

Artifacts by Britta Austin

Art by George Pfau|Cover design by R. Black|Book design by Sarah Ciston

"Austin seems to have created a kind of quantum literary physics, where story cannot be contained, expanding until it overflows." - SF Examiner

Watchword's first single-author publication is a selection from Britta Austin's project titled notecards: a living museum, a collection of flash fiction typed on 3" x 5" index cards using a Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter over the course of one and a half years. Austin began the project in 2006, and in June, 2008 the entire collection was featured in the third installation of the Watchword Press gallery series, Whole Story where contributing artists collectively transformed San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts gallery into a life-sized, multi-media diorama in reaction to the work. The notecards inspired both visual and performance artists to create original works based on the wide range of themes, ideas, images, and concepts within.

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Britta Austin was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.  She moved to the San Francisco bay area in 2002 and received her BA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 2006.  Her work has appeared in Transfer Magazine and Watchword.  She has been a member of the More Cowgirl Writers’ Collective and an editor for Small Desk Press, and has recently become a children’s docent at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.  She lives, works and writes in San Francisco.

Artifacts is also available at the following bookstores:
Books and Bookshelves, San Francisco, CA
Issues, Oakland, CA
Modern Times, San Francisco, CA
Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA
Pegasus Bookstore, Berkeley, CA