Beginning at 7pm on Saturday, May 30, Functionally Literate will host a free reading event at 1300 Brookhaven Drive, featuring authors Jeff Parker (Where Bears Roam the Streets), Shane Hinton (Pinkies), and Erica Dawson (The Small Blades Hurt). The after party will take place at 10pm at Lil Indies, including the standard offer of good cocktails and bad dancing.
From 2-4pm, Saturday, June 6th Kristin Durfee will celebrate the release of her first novel, Four Corners, at the Writer’s Atelier in Winter Park (336 Grove Ave. Suite B Winter Park, FL 32789). There will be a reading, Q&A, and book signing, along with a chance to win prizes and maybe a little swag, too. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/fourcornerstrilogy.
This event is free and open to the public. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. 10% of all sales during the event will be donated to the Writer’s Atelier youth writing programs.
Bookmark It welcomes Paul Harding to The Gallery at Avalon Island on May 26th beginning at 7:30 p.m. for an Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Outreach program with a reading, followed by Q & A and book signing. Paul Harding is the author of two novels about multiple generations of a New England family, Enon (Random House, 2013) and Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the PEN American Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. In an interview with Publishers Weekly about his work, Harding has said that he is “interested in the greater whole of which we are a part, but cannot perceive. That makes death an interesting threshold. It fascinates me in the context of our mortality.”
In the final Friday of National Short Story Month, Bookmark It (3201 Corrine Drive Orlando, Florida 32803) will host David James Poissant at a wine and sign for his book, The Heaven of Animals from 6pm-8pm, May 29.
In each of the stories in this remarkable debut, award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of family—fathers and sons, husbands and wives—as they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love. His strikingly true-to-life characters have reached a precipice, chased there by troubles of their own making. Standing at the brink, each must make a choice: Leap, or look away? Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin writes that Poissant forces us “to face the people we are when we’re alone in the dark.”