Category: events
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Craft your Zine with your inner child, TONIGHT!
I have been asked several times recently what I publish. What kind of books I like and promote. And I usually smile and reply that I don’t have a certain genre— that I collect people, storytellers, voices. The creative world is so vast, and with artificial intelligence improving and distribution…
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Lehigh Valley Poetry Round-up
If you like your poetry in the comfort of your own home, Stick Figure Poetry released its fall issue a few days ago, edited by Darrell Parry, author of Twists: Gathered Ephemera and founder of that online poetry publication that began life as a program at Mary Meuser Memorial Library. Poet and familiar face at Parisian Phoenix Nancy…
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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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