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Brad Kuhn and Darlyn Finch Kuhn Read in St. Pete

Darlyn fireplace Brad at Glendalough

 

Brad Kuhn and Darlyn Finch Kuhn are thrilled to read at Community Cafe in St. Pete on Saturday, March 17 from 3-5 p.m. as part of the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour.  Darlyn will read from her debut novel, Sewing Holes, and Brad will dip into his almost-ready-for-prime-time magnum opus. You won’t want to miss it!

Award-winning journalist, author, poet, speechwriter and media consultant Brad Kuhn was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, Orlando Sentinel, and Orlando Business Journal and wrote I Hate My Banker. He won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and co-authored the poetry collection Three Houses. A founding director of Shady Lane Press and The Jack Kerouac House Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, he is a frequent contributor to Orlando Magazine, and has led writing workshops throughout Florida.

Darlyn Finch Kuhn is a prolific poet, short-story writer, and novelist who edits the Scribbles literary e-newsletter and produces book trailer videos. Her debut novel, Sewing Holes, available from Twisted Road Publications, won First Place in the published novella category of the FWA’s 2015 Royal Palm Literary Awards. In addition to her two poetry collections (Red Wax Rose and Three Houses) her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, magazines and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM, and been read on the Writers Almanac. She was interviewed on World Radio Paris.

The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town.

A group of Jacksonville authors will visit St. Petersburg for this first event. In turn, a group of St. Pete authors will be heading to Jacksonville on April 7th.

This event is co-presented by Wordier Than Thou and Scribbles, with thanks to Community Cafe.

Gale Massey and Matt Laney Read in St. Pete

Gale-Massey Bio-pic  Matt Lany

St. Pete author Gale Massey will be joined in a reading by Matt Lany and other Jacksonville writers from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday, March 17th at Community Café, 2444 Central Avenue, St. Pete, FL 33712 to kick off St. Patrick’s Day in style.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale, and the authors will sign copies. They are available for media interviews.

The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town.

A group of Jacksonville authors will visit St. Petersburg for this first event. In turn, a group of St. Pete authors will be heading to Jacksonville on April 7th.

This event is co-presented by Wordier Than Thou and Scribbles, with thanks to Community Cafe.

Gale Massey’s stories have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and Connotation Press, Sabal, Seven Hills Press, and Walking the Edge. Her forthcoming debut novel, The Girl From Blind River, a coming of age crime story set against a backdrop of illegal gambling and small town corruption, will be released by Crooked Lane Books in July.

Matt Laney is a professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville, South Campus. His book, The Tree, is available at amazon.com. At this point, Matt just hopes to break even. No fire escape plan. Still doesn’t care what a hashtag is.

 

 

Tim Gilmore and Andres Rojas Read in St. Pete

Tim Gilmore bio picAndres Rojas

Meet Tim Gilmore and Andres Rojas, who will read in St. Pete at the Souteast Sister Cities Reading Tour on Saturday, March 17th from 3-5 p.m. at Community Cafe.  Additional writers’ bios to appear in Scribbles all this week. Stay tuned!

Tim Gilmore is the author of 15 books, creator of JaxPsychoGeo.com, and founder of JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival. His books include The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, about Isaiah Hart, the founder of Jacksonville, Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, In Search of Eartha White and Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic. His poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 40 publications. His website, JaxPsychoGeo.com, contains around 400 stories of different Jacksonville locations. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida and teaches writing at Florida State College of Jacksonville.

Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in Best New Poets, 2017, and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNIBarrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the current poetry editor at Compose, and blogs about writing at https://teoppoet.wordpress.com.

Kick off St. Patrick’s Day with the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour

The concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!

On Saturday, March 17th, from 3-5 pm, Jacksonville writers Tricia Booker, Tim Gilmore, Matt Lany, Darlyn KuhnBrad Kuhn, and Andres Rojas will read at Community Cafe, 2444 Central Aveue, St. Petersburg, FL 33712.

Gale Massey will read from her upcoming novel, The Girl from Blind River.

Many thanks to Wordier Than Thou for their sponsorship. St. Pete writers will visit Jax on 4/7/2018, at a venue to be announced soon.

Check out the Facebook event page . Hope to see you next Saturday!

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