Category: events
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Festival Unbound and Poetry in the Rose Garden TODAY
Every April, the world celebrates poetry— the same sort of observance reserved for Black History Month or Disability Pride or Suicide Awareness. And here we are, in October, already, and I am impressed with the volume of poetry events flooding the Lehigh Valley, six months after official National Poetry Month, perhaps an…
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Splintered River as the election approaches
I can’t help but feel that nothing we create in our fictional universes will compare to what is happening in the real world. And that is why I agreed to publish E.H. Jacobs’ debut novel, Splintered River. In some ways, the premise of the novel seems unbelievable, and you wonder if these ambitious political…
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Write to Read launches Tonight
The Write to Read Workshop series at Blue Flame Events Retail Store launches tonight at 6 p.m. Consider it your drop-in hours to pursue any of your literary questions.
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Explore the Literary Landscape
Opportunities for YOU to write In addition to the Write to Read workshops, Parisian Phoenix has a variety of upcoming opportunities where you can explore your own writing passions. If you’re interested in learning more about Substack, the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group will host Angel Ackerman on September 28, presenting Newsletters for Authors and an afternoon workshop…
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Death of the American Mall?
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend the day at the Mall Rats Punk Vendor Festival at the Palmer Park Mall, celebrating the 1990s, and hosted by Blue Flame Events. My Echo City Capers duo, illustrator Joseph Swarctz and his sidekick author Ralph Greco Jr., were signing books down at the Barnes & Noble at the Promenade Shops in Center…
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We made the Bethlehem Social Calendar
I was finishing my Google Slides for my presentation September 28 when I received a “Talkwalker” alert in my email that Parisian Phoenix Publishing had appeared on the Lehigh Valley Press social calendar for Bethlehem. They printed a press release from the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group about the workshop…
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Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment
As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…
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