05/22/2010 4:00 pm
05/22/2010 8:00 pm
swedish museumWhen: May 22, 2010, 4-8, rain or shine
Where: American Swedish Historical Museum, 1900 Pattison Ave., Philadelphia
215-389-1776 www.americanswedish.org
Reserve your tickets by May 20 for just $10 by emailing christine@philadelphiastories.org, or $12 at the door. Admission includes food, beverages, fab tunes from DJ Ted Offensive, readings*, and live music from local band, The Tights. (Kids under 12 are $5)
The party will also celebrate the third release from PS Books. Prompted presents poetry, personal essays, and fiction from Alison Hicks' Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio. From internationally published author Julie Compton (Tell No Lies, Rescuing Olivia) to first-time poet Marsha Pincus, Prompted's connective tissue lies in a deep love and respect for the craft of writing.
The online auction starts Friday, April 30. Have a donation? Email christine@philadelphiastories.org
*READERS
Julie Compton is the internationally published author of two novels, Tell No Lies and Rescuing Olivia. An attorney by profession, she gave up law to pursue writing full-time when her family moved from Philadelphia to Florida in 2003. She now lives near Orlando, where she is writing Keep No Secrets, a sequel to Tell No Lies.
Ellen Jensen Abbott’s debut novel, Watersmeet, (YA—fantasy; Marshall Cavendish) was published in 2009; the sequel is due out fall of 2011. Her essay “Monday Morning” appeared in A Cup of Comfort for Women, in 2007. She lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania and teaches high school English at the Westtown School.
Todd B. Stevens lives outside Philadelphia where he is pursuing an MFA in writing at Rosemont College. He has studied English Literature at Cornell and Villanova, and was a participant in the Center City workshop in 2008-09. Recently he has published in Mad Poets Review and Off the Coast.
Janet Spangler has been a reporter/photographer for the Alburquerque News, taught English as a Second Language in Turkey, and co-authored a fund-raising textbook. She has been a featured reader at Moonstone Arts Center, the Tyme Gallery, Harvest Books and the New Green Line series.
Rosalind Kaplan is a physician practicing Internal Medicine in the Philadelphia area. Her memoir, The Patient in the White Coat, is forthcoming in September 2010 from Kaplan Publishing in New York (no relation!).
Jennifer J. Beaumont is an educator, supporting schools in the delivery of educational services to students with a special focus on addressing issues of equity and diversity. She is also a travel writer with a focus on history and culture. Her work has appeared in Pathfinders Travel, Odyssey Couleur, and Romar Traveler.
