Events

Presented by Mauve Perle Tahat and Kailey Tedesco, two authors featured in the anthology Subtle Body Horror. Collectively authoring and editing dozens of projects, this panel offers a material history of friendship in the arts across space and time. Join us to talk about contemporary issues that have helped shape local craft and memory.

Historical fiction author and college professor Valerie Van Orman explores how to find and create historical fiction stories through family artifacts and genealogical research. Using the research she conducted on her great-grandmother’s life when writing her debut novel Helen of Holliday’s Cove as an example, Van Orman will discuss how historical artifacts can tell stories...

Listen, learn, play, and create at an interactive puppet theater storytime with the Narberth Poetry Theater. Make your own puppets and tell your own stories! Narberth Poetry Theater is a small learning and performance space in Narberth, PA. Originally named "Children's Poetry Theater" by its founder, Jaquelyn Healy, the theater now caters to artists of...

All families have stories some members don’t want told. Memoirists often struggle with the ethical complexity of telling those stories—with writing about relatives, particularly when their narratives pertain to emotionally-charged conflicts; the revelation of family secrets; contested shared histories; or stories involving such subjects as abuse, trauma, addiction, mental illness pertaining to family members. Panelists...

Halloween means so many things to us all. And there are countless ways we can celebrate this time and connect with our inner child, such as: dressing up, trick or treating, decorating for a party, watching scary movies, baking and.... Write and share our own scary stories! Join author and Intuitive Arts Coach Andrea R....

Women authors in conversation about writing their truth, sharing their stories, and exposing their down and dirty. What happens when women tell their truth? What happens when women write their lives? What happens when women are bold and audacious on the page? These panelists are full of passion, compassion, determination, humor, and authenticity. This panel...

The Unbearables are a loose confederation of poets and writers who came of age in 1980s and 90s New York. Infamous for their high-minded aesthetics and low, barroom manners, the group has sought to torment literary powers-that-be throughout its more than three decades of existence. Collapse Press is an independent publisher and producer of events...