11/22/2009 3:00 pm
11/22/2009 5:00 pm
O magazine contributor and author Lise Funderburg joins PS Books authors on Sunday, November 22, at Mount Airy's Big Blue Marble for a free reading and panel discussion. We hope you can join us for free refreshments and a stimulating conversation on publishing tips and trends. Highly recommended for writers of all ability levels.
Here are the details for the event at The Big Blue Marble on November 22, 3pm:
Lise Funderburg is a regular contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine and has written for such publications as The New York Times, TIME, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Nation, Salon, and Prevention. Her latest book, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (Free Press), is a contemplation of life, death, and barbecue.
Nathan Long has work in Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, The Sun and other journals. He has won awards including a Truman Capote Literary Trust Fellowship, Breadloaf scholarships, a Virginia Commission of the Arts grant, and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He teaches creative writing at Richard Stockton College in NJ and lives in Germantown, PA.
Brian Patrick Heston grew up in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He has a Master’s in English and Poetry from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University. His poetry has appeared in Pennsylvania English, Confrontation, Slipstream, Cake Train, Poetry Southeast, West Branch, The Bitter Oleander, Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories, Portland Review, Gargoyle, and is upcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly and 5 A.M. He currently is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Rutgers University in Camden New Jersey and is an Assistant Editor with Many Mountains Moving Press
David Sanders has had his short fiction published in journals and anthologies that include Baltimore Review, The Laurel Review, Sycamore Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Philly Fiction, and others. He was a winner of the Third Coast national fiction competition and the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Autobiography Competition. His short plays have been produced at Brick Playhouse and at InterAct Theatre Company, where David was founding director of the “Best of Philly” reading series, Writing Aloud. David lives in Queen Village with his wife, photo critic Nancy Brokaw.
Colleen Baranich grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and currently resides in Palmyra, NJ. She holds a B.A. in English Writing from Rider University and an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from The College of New Jersey. She works as a speech therapist in a hospital in Gloucester County. Her work has also appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal
Marc Schuster is the author of two-and-a-half books, including The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl. He teaches English at Montgomery County Community College.
Christine Weiser is a professional writer and editor who played bass for the Philly girl band, Mae Pang. Her current band, The Tights, can be heard in clubs in and around the Philadelphia area. In her other life, she is the co-author of Ask Mr. Technology, Get Answers (Linworth 2007), co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories, and the Convention Center Visitors Guide. Broad Street is her first novel.
