Parisian Phoenix Publishing

This weekend Angel Ackerman will be at the Blank Slate Community Center for a special three-hour memoir workshop designed for anyone whether you have no writing experience or have been writing professionally. We’re going to look at samples of various memoirs– example the style in which you can tell your story– and discuss the reasons why we need to record the themes we see in our own lives.

Sometimes it’s family history. Sometimes it’s humor. Sometimes it’s a lesson that needs to be shared.

So join us.

Tickets are $40 and include materials, instructional time, hands-on writing exercises and a memoir or memoir-adjacent book to take home.

Order tickets here.

Other October Events

• October 9: Angel Ackerman will be hosting the teens writing group at Emmaus Public Library.
• October 11: Echo City Capers at the Barnes & Noble at Lehigh Valley Mall
• October 11: New date for Angel Ackerman’s memoir writing workshop at Blank Slate Community Center in Yardley, Pa. The three-hour, hands-on workshop starts at 1 p.m. The fee is $40, but includes participant’s choice of memoir or memoir-adjacent books from Parisian Phoenix Publishing, instruction and materials. Order tickets here.
• October 13-19: Easton Book Festival, downtown Easton, Pa.

• October 18: Echo City Capers at the Barnes & Noble in the Promenade Shops, Center Valley, Pa.
• October 18: Noon to 4 p.m., Parisian Phoenix authors at Chili Fest, part of the Southside Arts District and Made in the Lehigh Valley. The ticketed event encompasses a variety of business in Bethlehem’s (Pa.) Southside. For more information, click here. Local restaurants compete for a coveted handmade chili award. Where will the authors be?
  • Angel Ackerman, Colonial Meadery, 211 E 3rd St.
  • McKenna Graf, Playa Bowls, 310 E 3rd St.
  • Dawn O’Harra, Playa Bowls, 310 E 3rd St.
  • Larry Sceurman, Molly’s Irish Grille & Sports Pub, 4 East 4th St.
  • Dianna Sinovic, F&A Grog House, 117 E 3rd St.
• October 18: Parisian Phoenix contributor William Prystauk releases his vampire novel, Red Agenda (edited by Angel Ackerman), 2 to 5 p.m. at the downstairs speakeasy “The Hideaway” at Newberry’s Yard of Ale, 622 Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa. Purchase a signed copy and a drink at the bar.
• October 19: Noon to 4 p.m., Small Press Expo at Easton Book Festival. Come find your favorite Parisian Phoenix books! In the Sigal Museum on Northampton Street in downtown Easton.
• October 19: Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group Paranormal Panel as part of the Easton Book Festival, 2:15 p.m., featuring Angel Ackerman, Phil Giunta, Joanne McLaughlin, and Dianna Sinovic. Also in the Sigal Museum on Northampton Street in downtown Easton.

Closing out 2025

• November: Release of Archaeomythology, poetry chapbook by Kathryn Dohrmann
• November 1: Echo City Capers at Easton Area High School Craft Fair.
• November 8: Dianna Sinovic and Geraldine Donaher at Bucks County Library Author Fair,
  10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Doylestown Library, 150 S. Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa.
• November 13: McKenna Graf reading from her full-length poetry book, The Depths, the third in her Archive of Adolescence series, at Book and Puppet Company in downtown Easton, Pa.
• November 16: Echo City Capers at the Barnes & Noble in the Promenade Shops, Center Valley, Pa.
• November 22: Echo City Capers at Vorhees High School Winter Festival, 9 a.m to 3 p.m., Glen Gardner, N.J.
• December 6: Parisian Phoenix Publishing at Lehigh Valley ComicCon, Lehigh-Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, Pa., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• December 6: Echo City Capers at Warren County Technical School Craft Fair, Washington N.J.
• December 19: Echo City Capers at the Barnes & Noble in the Promenade Shops, Center Valley, Pa.
• December 20: Echo City Capers at the Barnes & Noble at Lehigh Valley Mall

Ringing in 2026

• January 31, 2026: Launch of Geraldine Donaher’s anti-trafficking young adult novel, Mouth Shut, Head Down at Immaculata University, 2 to 5 p.m., 1145 West King Road, Immaculata Drive, Immaculata, Pa.