https://www.stanzabooks.com/events daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-5-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e2c5dd48-ee5d-4fa1-92f3-b22a6e583c9c/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-BOOK-CLUB-5-2026.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9f5bf9bb-3d83-4039-a3e2-340967c7faf6/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-BOOK-CLUB-4-2026.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/a-stanza-salon-the-white-pedestal monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9467d083-1ade-4c2a-baf0-818cfd7f2682/STANZA-INSTA-SALON-5-8-2026.jpg Events - A Stanza Salon: The White Pedestal - Make it stand out This is one of the most important discussions of our time. It’s so critical to understand why American culture is moving the way it is. So, we’re proud to host Curtis Dozier at a Stanza Salon. About Curtis’s book: How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Curtis Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it’s hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/28f01cf1-b212-48d4-839b-7edfe4e9349f/curtis_dozier-md.jpg Events - A Stanza Salon: The White Pedestal - Curtis Dozier Curtis Dozier received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and has taught at Vassar College since then. He is an internationally recognized expert on how extremists and hate groups invoke Greco-Roman antiquity to promote their politics. He is the author of the White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) and has been documenting examples of appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups online at his award-winning website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics since 2017 (https://doingjusticetotheclassics.org). He has appeared on Public Radio’s “Academic Minute,” BBC Radio 4’s “Anti-Social,” KPFA’s “Against the Grain,” and the Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-25 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-24 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-18 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-17 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-11 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-10 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-4 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-4-3 monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774872727252-0B01PZDLYLJYSU8IO8CD/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTIMEZ2.jpg Events - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/comics-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4a0a272a-8961-4aa5-84e7-dbd4eed12e31/STANZA-INSTA-COMICS-CLUB-4-2026.jpg Events - Stanza COMICS CLUB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/a-stanza-salon-the-long-game monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774815077405-QK315BL3BX5CZ0M755KO/STANZA-INSTA-SALON-6-7-2026.jpg Events - A Stanza Salon: The Long Game - Make it stand out The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century, the U.S. men’s national team existed on the fringes of world soccer—out of sight, out of mind, and, more often than not, out of the World Cup. Between 1950 and 1990, the program toiled in irrelevance, a collection of part-timers playing before empty bleachers. Then, things began to shift, and today’s U.S. men’s team is loaded with young and pedigreed talent, expected to make its mark at the 2026 World Cup. The story of this team’s rise to prominence is a dramatic journey, with setbacks, buffoonery, misunderstandings, glory, and a wide, eccentric, talented cast of characters. With unprecedented access to former and current national team players, coaches, and administrators, Schaerlaeckens traces the sport’s evolution in the U.S.—from its outsider status to its modern foothold—and the challenges that have shaped the men’s national team along the way. From systemic obstacles in youth development to an American sports culture that expects instant dominance, he explores why success has been elusive, and why that might finally be changing. With insight, wit, and razor-sharp storytelling, The Long Game is an unforgettable look at the past, present, and uncertain future of American soccer— and the team that could redefine it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d67dba78-c3ce-45d0-892a-e4f5a1b751fc/20250709-By-Asha-Fuller-Leander-Schaerlaeckens-0044.jpg Events - A Stanza Salon: The Long Game - Leander Schaerlaeckens Leander Schaerlaeckens is a long-time soccer writer and has worked for ESPN, FOX Sports, and Yahoo Sports, among others, covering the United States men’s national team at three World Cups. He currently writes about soccer for The Guardian, ESPN and The Ringer. He teaches journalism and sports communication at Marist University. Born in the Netherlands and raised in Belgium, he went to college in London and Washington, D.C. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife, son, and their mutt/squirrel-murderer, Eleanor Roosevelt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d3889841-a025-426b-a728-b31a7bc2940f/Screenshot+2026-03-27+at+4.16.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - A Stanza Salon: The Long Game - Seth Rosenthal Seth Rosenthal is a producer at Secret Base, a sports documentary studio. He's written about sports for SB Nation, New York Magazine, and probably other places, but it was a long time ago. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1775060924828-32RPNL1WP0HSY14WHA47/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FIC-4-2026.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-5-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774466745354-ODZUGCXU0ND12V703ESI/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-5-2026.jpg Events - In Comparison - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/indie-bookstore-day-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774459158895-K7ECRZQ6P1YQG0KADGA5/STANZA-INSTA-INDIE-BOOKSTORE-DAY-2026.jpg Events - INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-salon-5-9-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1774639900492-03WCOD07Y4V1OYEP0GC6/STANZA-INSTA-SALON-5-9-2026.jpg Events - A Stanza Salon: Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York - Make it stand out Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities. In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, the book portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and immigration reform through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era's popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration. Jonathan Ezra Goldman's whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices. The grand narratives of the 1920s interweave with little-known anecdotes about well-known figures such as Marcus Garvey, Dorothy Parker, and Babe Ruth, serving as a backdrop to the everyday challenges and triumphs of a city beset by crowds, automobile traffic, and rapidly changing technology and urban infrastructure, as well as erased stories of injustices like Jim Crow practices, immigration anxieties, and the violent treatment of political dissent. These stories still resonate today, showing that this dizzying, exuberant ride through hidden history can help twenty-first readers see our own moment more clearly. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1773705472662-KALPY4CNBHN5YR1R9V8D/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-4-2026.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/grief-book-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/dee925a1-3fc8-4a13-b740-1dbd3bb40a68/STANZA-INSTA-GRIEF-BOOK-CLUB-4-2026.jpg Events - Grief and Mourning book club - BELOVED - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-writers-club monthly 0.5 2026-03-15 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/comics-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1772750381431-97QX6MJ763JJQ26XY026/STANZA-INSTA-COMICS-CLUB-3-2026.jpg Events - COMICS club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-5-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1772749826337-5THAZCF3HC0BFEIXYENV/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-5-2026.jpg Events - Literature Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-4-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1772749789093-UB2J0Y2TWZ1Z3TFJFOHD/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-4-2026.jpg Events - Literature Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/bulldog-bookbash monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a6d33a8a-63f5-4c43-a163-fcc91c63241d/STANZA-INSTA-BOOKBASH-3-2026.jpg Events - BULLDOG BOOKBASH COMICS mini workshop - Make it stand out JOIN US at the annual BULLDOG BOOK BASH. We’ll talk visual storytelling. You’ll get your own comics panel to fill in and take home. 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Storytelling for COMICS One Shot - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c995d208-5b75-48de-b41b-9233074d4d8b/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-3-2026.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/comics-one-shot monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76a7cd88-cf12-4734-a148-4142fe19e122/STANZA-INSTA-STORYTELLING-COMICS-ONE-SHOT-FULL.jpg Events - Storytelling for COMICS One Shot - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/grief-book-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ff91722c-d1d9-4e3e-abde-6276cf82c5c9/STANZA-INSTA-GRIEF-BOOK-CLUB-3-2026.jpg Events - 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/only-a-game-3-22 monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ce555003-1920-45d9-a17b-d3c57e451265/STANZA-INSTA-ONLY-A-GAME.jpg Events - It's Only a Game - LIVE READING - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/only-a-game-3-8 monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1771776471720-49HOHWNFH12N6JAQIYM9/STANZA-INSTA-ONLY-A-GAME.jpg Events - It's Only a Game - LIVE READING - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1770322772304-5LQ8NNFOA1ZHSLIEKNPD/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-3-2026.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/comics-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f2b69e8f-5a09-42aa-abef-5d608c1eed1f/STANZA-INSTA-COMICS-CLUB-2-2026.jpg Events - Comics club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1772672181158-024QRUIRS3DOO68JNCLT/STANZA-INSTA-MAR-2026.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9a76e120-e2a6-4672-bd56-3daf92a7779b/STANZA-INSTA-FEB-2026.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/darkfiction-book-club-3-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/63ac668f-6a8d-49c6-b101-8433eb40dc23/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FICTION-3-2026.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based on Queens. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Herculine is out now. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/darkfiction-book-club-2-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1af8d6d7-2d2c-449f-a738-594aae39811c/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FICTION-FEB-2026.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/25670653-c0d1-4303-8ad0-338913942d48/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-BOOOK-CLUB-FEB-26.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Next up in the sci-fi book club, another book I would call cyberpunk-adjacent. Not the main plot, but it lives in that world. Some amazing facts about octopi: They do not live long. They so not raise their young, but rather toss them out into the world on their own from day one. They do not normally organize into societies. Though quite intelligent, these facts will prevent them from ever forming societies, passing on knowledge, and evolving to take over the world ( which they probably deserve ). Until now... Come grab this book at Stanza, and let its thoughtful narrator and big ideas warm you into the Winter. Then JOIN the sci-fi book club Jan 20th, and talk about it with the smartest group of nerds this side the tree of life. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-march-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6753c45a-d959-4950-8ed2-856122425447/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-MARCH-2026.jpg Events - In Comparison - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/97454599-9275-403b-926c-4510ae7859f4/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-FEB-2026.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/anthology-salon monthly 0.5 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1768342354921-NIQ170VZXUDQPZAXY4PV/STANZA-INSTA-2025-ANTHOLOGY-EVENT-ADDRESS.jpg Events - Meet the Authors - Make it stand out Stanza is a bookstore. It’s also a press. This volume is one of our first efforts. It’s a labor of love, meant to introduce readers to the rich literary scene in Beacon. It’s also meant to celebrate local writers and use Stanza’s position as tourist stop and literary destination to get more eyes on their work. This is a unique privilege of a bookshop in a popular town. We feature local writers prominently, right at the front of our shop, and we really hope, once you read the works herein, you’ll be enticed to return and purchase these writers’ books. This book is not only for readers, but writers too. We hope readers enjoy the great work, of course. We hope they get a good sense of literary culture in Beacon. That culture is richer than we expected when we opened Stanza in 2023. This volume houses poetry, scholarly essays, literature, mystery, horror, and science fiction. If you’re a writer, We hope you can find some community in these pages. Every writer struggles with life/career balance, isolation, and fear that their work will never find a place in the world. The writers in this book make themselves quite vulnerable through artist statements accompanying their works. We hope this vulnerability helps you know you’re not alone. Welcome to Beacon’s literary scene. We’re donating profits from this anthology to the Howland Public Library. Join us for a special salon with the authors. We’ll have copies of the anthology for sale and signing at the event, and of course, any time at Stanza Books, 508 Main, Beacon. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/comics-club-jan-26 monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1767965478792-M6Z6C2ZRYAY3OC4EK7Z9/STANZA-INSTA-COMICS-CLUB.jpg Events - COMICS CLUB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/demon-lover-witch monthly 0.5 2026-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ae2865b2-aae6-44a4-bdcd-1906cfe88c21/STANZA-INSTA-DEMON-LOVER-WITCH-FULL.jpg Events - DEMON LOVER WITCH - Friday the 13th, and the day before Valentine’s day. What better day to gather and celebrate the launch of Stanza’s new novella, DEMON LOVER WITCH, a dark fantasy set right here in Beacon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4dbdf75a-0b53-4286-a0e8-6fd645069aef/COVER+FRONT.jpg Events - DEMON LOVER WITCH - DEMON LOVER WITCH Two demons seduce a Witch, and reveal a mortal enemy. Present-day. Beacon, NY. Carmilla and Vladimir are Gallu demons. Together for eons, their love eternal, they’ve been persecuted, hanged, beaten, and burned. Finally, they learn to live among humans. But human life is so, so boring. The spark is gone. So they prey on small Hudson Valley towns, seducing sexy couples, and devouring them after. It’s simple fun and it works. Their romance is rekindled. Then, they meet the mysterious bookseller, Sahira. They seduce her like the rest, but the very act reveals her to be a mortal enemy. For Sahira’s veins run with the blood of the Witch. Most people think of Witch as an occupation. But Witches are powerful beings, created by the goddess Hekate at the dawn of time, for one purpose: destroying Gallu demons. Unaware of her heritage, Sahira seeks enlightenment, power, something she feels deep inside, but cannot express. Until her new lovers show her a world of magic and myth, and awaken the Witch inside. Carmilla’s lust turns to obsession. Vladimir’s fear turns to terror. A tragic threesome unfolds across space and time, from the modern-day Hudson Valley, to the primordial shores of their forebears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/916a7ace-86b2-4295-840f-030a9ffa3029/MARK-HEADSHOT.jpg Events - DEMON LOVER WITCH - Mark Harris Mark is a writer, experience designer, and co-owner of Stanza Books. As a writer, Mark has written plays, interactive stories, audio dramas, and one novel. As an experience designer and creative technologist, Mark has worked on immersive installations, museums, and corporate environments around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cf6c782e-3c15-4703-83b6-7c65abdeae73/Tamalyn_Miller_Spera_portrait.webp Events - DEMON LOVER WITCH - Tamalyn Miller Words are immaterial, yet they have a primal capacity to conjure, to call into existence. I play with this paradox, creating objects, installations and performances that arise from and inform numinous original texts. Drawing upon diverse cultural sources and periods, I blend residues of ancient systems with contemporary perspectives and forms. Through observation and research, often with a focus on the natural world, I distill complex phenomena into otherworldly texts, objects, and music that suggest recovered artifacts or rites charged with mysterious powers and functions. My work hovers at junctures: the threshold between spirit and materiality for instance, or the emergence of meaning from transrationality. https://www.tamalynmiller.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9b735efc-a143-46e5-a51c-0ed3af1806b4/IMG_4013.jpg Events - DEMON LOVER WITCH - Make it stand out Some of you read my first novel, Hekate’s Return. I wanted to mention, Demon Lover Witch is set in the same universe. One story world. Two books. 20,000 years apart. Hekate’s Return is an page-turner epic fantasy about a matriarchal race of Witches clashing with the first human civilization. The first human civilization is advancing quickly. Too quickly. From a band of wild hunters, to a great city in only decades. What’s their secret? The blood of Witch children, stolen and sacrificed to their hungry god, Moloch. Every year, King Baltezaar leads a raucous celebration and long march up the mountain, to Moloch’s cave. Every year, one child given, one technology gained. The Witches are a far older race, created by Hekate at the dawn of time, and bound to the god realm, whence all magic comes. But Hekate has been silent for so long, leaving the Witches lost, wandering, vulnerable. But they are coming back for their stolen children. Led by “The Immortal Twins,” primordial daughters of Diana, the Witch race will wield Hekate’s magic and clash with humanity in an epic conflict that will alter the course of both peoples’ histories forever. -Mark https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/the-big-breeze monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b872fb2b-9b08-4965-9537-215e7b25e6f3/STANZA-INSTA-BIG-BREEZE.jpg Events - THE BIG BREEZE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f15e209d-a66c-4bf3-9cd0-60352aee8297/Steven-Fechter-1.jpg Events - THE BIG BREEZE - Steven Fechter Steven Fechter is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His first published novel, titled The Big Breeze (Encyclopocalypse Publications), part baseball novel, part noir thriller, will be released in February 2026. He recently finished a new novel titled Kid Katz, P.I. As a playwright and screenwriter, he co-wrote the screenplay for the award-winning film The Woodsman (based on his play) starring Kevin Bacon. His plays have been staged throughout North America and Europe. In 2022 his play, The Memory Exam, premiered at 59E59 Theatres in New York where it had a sold-out run. The New York Times called it a “dystopian thriller.” Fechter and his wife are residents of Beacon, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/15049453-bde0-4d77-a974-7725fcd245ce/Julia_Dahl--scaled.jpg Events - THE BIG BREEZE - Julia Dahl Julia Dahl was born and raised in Fresno, California. In 1994, she stumbled onto the staff of her high school newspaper and has been chasing stories ever since. Her first novel, Invisible City, is the story of a New York City tabloid reporter investigating the murder of an Hasidic woman from Borough Park. Invisible City was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014. Invisible City also won the Barry, the Shamus, and the Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, and has been translated into eight languages. The sequel, Run You Down, was published in June 2015, and Conviction, the third book in the Rebekah Roberts series, was published in 2017. New York Magazine called Conviction “a murder mystery for our tumultuous times,” and it was named one of the best books of 2017 by the Boston Globe and LitHub. Her fourth novel, a stand-alone called The Missing Hours, was published in September 2021. The New York Times called it “a great reckoning with the moment we find ourselves in,” and the book was the September 2021 Oxygen Book Club pick. Her fifth novel, a stand-alone called I Dreamed of Falling, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal, which named it their Mystery Pick of the Month. The book was also selected as the Strand Bookstore’s 2024 October Mystery Pick and one of the Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Best Books of 2024. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/darkfiction-book-club-1-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7de3322d-2b88-4a81-b33a-ba425433ca74/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FICTION-1-2026.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-1-2026 monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/acccc461-f4da-48dc-98c3-ca81fe7f2951/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-1-2026.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/grief-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1767028405881-M60UY2TNUWEMH36UPI9N/STANZA-INSTA-GRIEF-FEB-2026.jpg Events - Grief & Mourning Book Club (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/251be170-89f9-45d4-abe5-7715f426f0b7/RachelTayler_Headshot1.jpg Events - Grief & Mourning Book Club (Copy) - Rachel Tayler I am a parent, clinical psychologist and lover of all things Beacon. A few years ago, while going through a significant loss, I found a lot of comfort in books. Whether it was memoir or fiction, I felt that reading stories of others going through this universal experience brought me comfort. It was an antidote to the loneliness that so often accompanies grief and mourning. This book club is for anyone who has gone through, or is going through a loss in their life. In other words, it is for everyone. It is my hope that through this book club we can build community and move gently towards acceptance. Please note that this book club is not therapy nor a therapeutic group, and that no client/therapist relationship is formed by your participation. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/literature-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e7eee14e-f47f-4937-bb65-aad38b613f71/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-2026.jpg Events - Literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spanish-english-book-club-feb-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1769194421045-R5NKTYC3RSDJ5WR8NXGS/STANZA-INSTA-SPANISH-ENGLISH-FEB.jpg Events - Spanish / English book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mint-to-be monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1765634448201-SZQLNDTDQ67X4HWA7FA2/STANZA-INSTA-MINT-TO-BE-NEW-TIME.jpg Events - MINT TO BE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/tday-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4e4d3a92-c799-4672-ac17-f497c87ff6f8/STANZA-INSTA-T-DAY.webp Events - Thanksgiving Day 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-jan-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1763731716794-XSZWZIPLYAO5HXVEQ2KK/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-BOOK-CLUB-JAN-2026.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Next up in the sci-fi book club, another book I would call cyberpunk-adjacent. Not the main plot, but it lives in that world. Some amazing facts about octopi: They do not live long. They so not raise their young, but rather toss them out into the world on their own from day one. They do not normally organize into societies. Though quite intelligent, these facts will prevent them from ever forming societies, passing on knowledge, and evolving to take over the world ( which they probably deserve ). Until now... Come grab this book at Stanza, and let its thoughtful narrator and big ideas warm you into the Winter. Then JOIN the sci-fi book club Jan 20th, and talk about it with the smartest group of nerds this side the tree of life. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-jan-2026 monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/61354570-7fbd-4576-a70a-76299669546e/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-JAN-26.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-12-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f155c42e-f19e-48ea-b6af-a96262270130/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-12-2025.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-nov-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/56ef7c84-da4b-4ed0-b1ce-be2ba9e3b044/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-NOV-2025.jpg Events - STANZA CAMPERS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-jan-2026 monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/632f5c54-3711-4c4c-9168-ff050a9e9c86/STANZA-INSTA-COMPARISON-JAN-2026.jpg Events - In Comparison book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spanish-english-book-club-nov-2025-cxl7x monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1758740726785-MEZQO941NLWLAEAR6ZEE/STANZA-INSTA-SPANISH-ENGLISH-OCT-2025.jpg Events - Spanish / English book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-dec-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1764867051547-CYJ4UM5POFPTZJOCI6QT/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-DEC-2025.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/book-club-holiday-social monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/93540fe5-2f4a-4d06-8061-004c170f8157/STANZA-INSTA-HOLIDAY+SOCIAL+2025.jpg Events - Book club holiday social - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-nov-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0cb89f92-d71c-4298-a23a-00d7438ba758/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOK-CLUB-NOV-2025.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-nov-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c54453f5-663a-44e9-9f28-d5c258e64878/STANZA-INSTA-sci-fi-nov-2025.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/bright monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1761144491449-2XJJI7XGKOK0PYMMSQ7G/STANZA-INSTA-JACKSON+BRIGHT.jpg Events - JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/eadaf833-36e1-4621-a664-c23f9304fd74/Poblocki%2BHeadshot%2B2021.jpg Events - JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Dan Poblocki Dan Poblocki is an American author of mystery, horror, and adventure novels for young people. He is the co-author with Neil Patrick Harris of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Magic Misfits (writing under the pen-name Alec Azam). He's also the author of My Brother’s Butt is Haunted, Tales to Keep You Up at Night, More Tales to Keep You Up at Night, the Shadow House series and many more. Jackson Bright in the Spotlight, a joyful middle-grade collaboration with drag-superstar Eureka O’Hara (RuPaul’s Drag Race, HBO’s We’re Here) was given a starred review in Kirkus, whose editors called it: “A fierce and fabulous read . . .” Dan’s novels, The Ghost of Graylock and The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe, were Junior Library Guild selections and made the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list. Other books have been honored with multiple state-reading awards. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Greek, Russian, German, Polish, Czech, and Farsi. Dan was born in Providence, Rhode Island. During his pre-teen years, his family moved to Basking Ridge, New Jersey, where he often looked for adventure with his best friends. Later, he graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in theater. Dan now writes in Saugerties, NY where he lives with two scaredy cats in a creaky old house. He's probably working on something new this very minute . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bd3fc835-30e5-4f1c-be39-162577bd72f7/IMG_2084.jpeg Events - JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Angel Elektra Drag artist Angel Elektra is the executive director of DSH-Westchester County Hudson Valley. Angel Elektra worked with Drag Story Hour NYC & Miami Florida appearing in and helping to organize many events - one of her many special gifts is being able to provide bilingual programming to Spanish-speaking audiences & children with special disabilities. Upon arrival back to New York, she immediately organized a core group of local queens and kings and began actively producing DSH events in the area. Her persistence and dedication to the craft of Drag Story Hour, combined with her experience in hosting DSH events, makes her a natural choice when considering local chapter leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bdf81215-64ee-48b6-8c12-60682aee82f1/IMG_4378.png Events - JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3f8a0c0c-75e0-49b0-a7a0-d975b7aa4d68/IMG_4379.png Events - JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-nov-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/92242b48-60dd-41e6-9b12-9f03adc25675/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-11-2025.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-11-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/742012d6-f7d7-4154-8a8d-72951e0080b3/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-11-25.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/grief-book-club monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cf004a0d-385a-44fe-b847-8f1b90e438fe/STANZA-INSTA-GRIEF-BOOK-CLUB-NOV-2025.jpg Events - Grief & Mourning Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/251be170-89f9-45d4-abe5-7715f426f0b7/RachelTayler_Headshot1.jpg Events - Grief & Mourning Book Club - Rachel Tayler I am a parent, clinical psychologist and lover of all things Beacon. A few years ago, while going through a significant loss, I found a lot of comfort in books. Whether it was memoir or fiction, I felt that reading stories of others going through this universal experience brought me comfort. It was an antidote to the loneliness that so often accompanies grief and mourning. This book club is for anyone who has gone through, or is going through a loss in their life. In other words, it is for everyone. It is my hope that through this book club we can build community and move gently towards acceptance. Please note that this book club is not therapy nor a therapeutic group, and that no client/therapist relationship is formed by your participation. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-oct-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0111b034-e4f6-47bf-bc4e-aab816ae76b3/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FICTION-OCT-2025.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-1 monthly 0.5 2025-09-25 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spanish-english-book-club-dec-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1766083279532-MEQB4GQVXGUMAEIETFYU/STANZA-INSTA-SPANISH-BOOK-CLUB-JAN.jpg Events - Spanish / English book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-oct-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2bc64e29-0b10-452d-a09c-8f3fdabeded7/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-OCT-2025.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-oct-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/39c826c5-7c8b-4a8e-a9d4-400114ec1cc3/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-BOOK-CLUB-OCT-2025.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-nov-25 monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cff406a4-7baf-4ca8-8f1f-003957fe59fd/STANZA-INSTA--IN-COMPARISON-NOV.jpg Events - In Comparison book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/poe monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0d9445d8-9985-45d4-b9cd-705a0e9df2f5/STANZA-INSTA-POE-MERCIER-2.jpg Events - You Don't Know Poe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-oct-25 monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b1c4c900-f15a-4ceb-9d34-9601304e9c96/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-OCT-25.jpg Events - Fantasy Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/rylomi monthly 0.5 2025-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ce7c457d-db5d-4dff-b7ac-feffa3981cd9/STANZA-INSTA-RYLOMI.jpg Events - Echoes of Rylomi launch party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-water-life monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5d0ee44c-493d-43d1-9be7-4934cf554097/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-SEPT.jpg Events - Stanza CAMPERS - WATER LIFE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/renfield monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/dd27678b-278e-4e85-87e6-c40e9ae69ba8/STANZA-INSTA-REBELEIN-OCT-11.jpg Events - The Entire Renfield Universe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-oct-25 monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ba339250-0565-4dc6-9f30-c3141e41c1bf/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-OCT-2025.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spirit-of-beacon-day monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-sept-25 monthly 0.5 2025-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9e292633-92bc-4db6-9cb4-23f02008eca2/STANZA-INSTA-LANGAN.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-sept-25 monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7beab41b-8dd3-4426-87a3-d2e7128e1098/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-SEPT-2025.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jennifer-fawcett monthly 0.5 2025-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ed25c7b5-b1ae-476a-8648-653bcb8d5cb6/STANZA-INSTA-FAWCETT.jpg Events - Jennifer Fawcett in person - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lost-and-found monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7978733f-3249-4ef5-91a3-67cc45035a1e/STANZA-INSTA-PRUITT.jpg Events - SOLD OUT - Lost and Found Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5155fc95-9c22-4940-b88e-84572646e2d1/9781665775755.jpg Events - SOLD OUT - Lost and Found Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930 - LOST and FOUND Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930 The Current's Black history series, "Always Present, Never Seen," by Chip Rowe (2022), was excellent; but a hole in their historical narrative needed filling. The result was a researched account of we who were "always present," focusing on Beacon's Black community from 1850 to 1930. This accounting is bolstered by careful study of census records and supported by boyhood memories and observations. Boyhood memories and observations of Beacon’s West End and the village (company town) of Brockway that bookend the historical narrative of that earlier Black community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7ab9f29f-3f01-4a05-9989-1f75e2d61a3c/Dan+Pruitt-+Headshot.jpg Events - SOLD OUT - Lost and Found Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930 - Daniel W. Pruitt Born in South Carolina, Daniel W. Pruitt spent much of his childhood growing up and learning in the greater Beacon, New York area. He attended schools in Brockway, Beacon, and Glenham before graduating from Beacon High School. Following graduation from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dan undertook additional study to complete a second degree at The New School for Social Research in New York City. He is retired from professional undertakings with IBM and currently resides in Dunedin, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7143c8df-8530-4a99-97a5-74452a6a9264/cropped-sparks-240x240.webp Events - SOLD OUT - Lost and Found Beacon’s Black Community 1850-1930 - Leonard Sparks Leonard Sparks has been reporting for The Current since 2020. The Peekskill resident holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Morgan State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and previously covered Sullivan County and Newburgh for The Times Herald-Record in Middletown. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/taking-leave monthly 0.5 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c35d2ed8-821d-4185-b74a-585ed76aa40d/978-1-4780-3282-3_pr.webp Events - Deborah Kapchan - Taking Leave - Taking Leave At a time when divisiveness, xenophobia, and nationalism are surging, Duke University Press releases Deborah Kapchan’s new memoir, Taking Leave. The story begins in Jerusalem just weeks before the October 7th attacks as the author embarks on a pilgrimage to understand the three faiths that have anchored her life—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Weaving in meaningful experiences from New York, Paris, Casablanca, Abu Dhabi and beyond, Kapchan explores lineages, identities, and the spaces in between. Invoking the power of personal narrative to communicate across boundaries, Taking Leave reveals Kapchan’s path to reconcile what history has deemed irreconcilable, sharing practical ways to forgo tribalism and “either-or” paradigms to experience empathy and peaceful coexistence. A must-read for anyone interested in transcending borders, as well as scholars, students, and professionals in the humanities, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution. ~ Praise for Taking Leave ~ “In this moving memoir Deborah Kapchan artfully unveils the connections among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Stretching beyond Kapchan’s journey of personal and intellectual self-discovery, this wonderful literary achievement brings us much-needed measures of inspired hope to our troubled times.” ~ Paul Stoller, author of Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times “This book is a joy to read, speaking deeply and powerfully to a shared and fundamental human experience by means of Deborah Kapchan’s unique vision and voice. I adore this touching and remarkable book.” ~ Martin Shuster, author of How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6af5fe35-b390-43c1-b4a6-a47e9fcf8343/Kapchan+HeadShot.jpeg Events - Deborah Kapchan - Taking Leave - Deborah Kapchan DEBORAH KAPCHAN is an American writer, translator and ethnographer, specializing in North Africa and its diaspora in Europe, professor emerita of performance studies at New York University and former director of The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Kapchan’s book, Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s prize for poetry in 2021, and her forthcoming memoir, Taking Leave, is the latest entry in Duke’s Practices series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/aa9594cb-c9bb-44e4-9a7b-1dfcf3b166ca/jackie-corley.jpg Events - Deborah Kapchan - Taking Leave - Jackie Corley In past lives, Jackie Corley was a reporter, a drone operator, and the publisher of Word Riot. In the current one, she's VP of Content for a radio company. Corley received an MFA from the Bennington College. Her fiction has appeared in BULL, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Redivider and Fourteen Hills, among others. She lives in the Hudson Valley but will always be a Jersey girl at heart. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/252cb32a-9360-482f-9b79-66c3b96084cc/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-AUG-25.jpg Events - Stanza CAMPERS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/italianish monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ae5f3925-f65c-44d0-b947-3f9e63a88120/STANZA-INSTA-ITALIANISH-EVENT.jpg Events - Italianish - Danny Freeman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/hagood-goblin-mode monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1754775101784-9NG7IMCJMCE32V5EN6ZV/STANZA-INSTA-HAGOOD-GOBLIN-MODE.jpg Events - Caroline Hagood GOBLIN MODE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-aug-25 monthly 0.5 2025-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8de8974e-b355-4c5f-9f29-fc296edb2836/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FIC-AUG-25.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/70aff216-a731-4274-a6cb-7392ef0bb20a/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-AUG-2025.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/calladita-no-more monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7428e938-434e-4165-96f1-af656b3dbcc4/3D+-+Regular.png Events - Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me - Hady Mendez - Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me Calladita No More is a powerful collection of stories about the lived experiences of a Latina who dared to dream big—only to find that the world wasn’t built for her ambitions. Through the lens of familiar Latinx cultural sayings, or refranes, Hady Méndez shares the lessons she learned navigating identity, leadership, and belonging in a world fueled by bias, discrimination, racism, and sexism. Each chapter holds a different refrán and lesson, blending personal storytelling with cultural reflection to spotlight hard-earned insights on empowerment, resilience, and reclaiming one’s voice. This is not a step-by-step guide. It is a deeply personal narrative—an offering of wisdom and encouragement to Latinas and Women of Color who are carving their own paths through systems that were never designed with them in mind. Hady’s journey is a testament to what is possible when one learns to champion themselves, celebrate their successes, foster community, and prioritize self-care. Written with joy, clarity, and mucho orgullo, the book invites readers to reflect on the lessons they’ve learned and the insights they’ve gained. This book is a call to remember who you are, where you come from, and the power you already hold. You are not alone on this journey. The wisdom and strength you desire are already within. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/98f3a537-94d3-4033-b81d-06a1d9cd07a9/Headshot+3+-+Credit_+Dee+Dee+Thompson.jpg Events - Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me - Hady Mendez - Hady Mendez Hady Mendez is a NY-based bestselling author, Latina speaker, and ERG coach. She currently serves as the Director of Programs for Lean In Latinas. She is also the founder and CEO of Boldly Speaking LLC, a company that is transforming the professional experiences of underestimated professionals by providing them with the skills to rise andthrive in the corporate world or in whatever path they choose. With a diverse career spanning over twenty-five years, Hady has served as head of equality for a major tech firm, held multiple customer-facing roles in high tech and financial services, served as a leader and advisor across various ERGs, dedicated two years to working with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women internationally, and served as Community School Director at an elementary school in the South Bronx. Hady’s essays have been featured in Business Insider and #WeAllGrow Latina and her thought leadership has been leveraged by organizations such as Lean In Latinas, Power To Fly, Prospanica, and many others. Hady is a Latinas in Tech Luminarias 2022 honoree, a Women of ALPFA 2023 Latinas to Watch, a 2024 LinkedIn Top Coaching & Mentoring Voice, and the recipient of HACE’s 2025 Mujer Maravilla Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/82efb5ff-e3d4-4587-b48f-97a828a6bc98/Vanessa+Schwippert.png Events - Calladita No More: My Latina Journey and the Lessons that Shaped Me - Hady Mendez - Vanessa Schwippert Founder of the Latina Writing Comunidad: Newsletter, virtual workshops, in-person events, and podcast episodes centering Latinas who are breaking barriers, embracing passions, and sharing their stories. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/feel-good-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c0007955-6bb8-4321-9a97-b4dae2737ec4/STANZA-INSTA-FEEL-GOOD-AUG-2025.jpg Events - Feel Good book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-july monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76bbf39e-5c81-432f-8913-320f41b7967b/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-JULY-2025.jpg Events - STANZA CAMPERS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-sept-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1aca56e2-9bad-450b-b566-77e2bf04f38a/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-SEPT-2025.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6308ef8-a096-4b05-86ee-a37ff7b4e7f1/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-AUG-2025.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bd8e789f-bf9f-4843-a333-c0e5205e1677/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-BOOK-CLUB-AUG-2025.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-1-kbf3l monthly 0.5 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/20ed6d3f-10ee-46d1-b50e-2c052d0f3189/STANZA-INSTA-aug-sept.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-aug-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/20ed6d3f-10ee-46d1-b50e-2c052d0f3189/STANZA-INSTA-aug-sept.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-7-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/17f53182-adaa-4092-acdb-5411711dcebf/STANZA-INSTA-DARK-FICTION-7-2025.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi monthly 0.5 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3d55b0cf-90de-410e-8a90-488425640c07/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-JULY-2025.jpg Events - SCI-FI book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club monthly 0.5 2025-06-19 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/33a9971f-88fd-42ae-bfdd-7b6a2c93c3e6/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-AUG-20.jpg Events - In Comparison - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-7-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/90cd48f6-a0b6-4a8a-83b4-12ee240b9042/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-JULY.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-7-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1751312065732-72GLT5I5F84CB319CEAL/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-JULY.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/rauh monthly 0.5 2025-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/dc960e91-3f54-4b82-ac24-3fc68c8d4492/STANZA-INSTA-RAUH-ROTHENBERG.jpg Events - Charlie Rauh and David Rothenberg - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a033377a-e149-41a8-a348-9831ae16c536/charlie+book.jpg Events - Charlie Rauh and David Rothenberg - simply, patiently, quietly (String Letter Publishing). Simply, Patiently, Quietly combines a songbook of original notated lullabies for solo guitar and choir with insightful prose on the exploration of intentional creativity and beautiful pen and ink artwork by Christina Rauh Fishburne. With a focus on appreciating the nuanced and the small over the fleeting and the distracting, this brief multidisciplinary offering is meant to engage readers wherever they may be. "An inspired and multi-faceted read on how to channel and access creativity of all sorts, and a great reminder to quiet the daily noise and get back to what matters."--Mary Halvorson, MacArthur Fellow and Guitarist/Composer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/04bea29e-5829-4f46-a974-3185218099c1/charlie.jpg Events - Charlie Rauh and David Rothenberg - Charlie Rauh Composer/author Charlie Rauh has been artist in residence for organizations including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of “Simply, Patiently, Quietly” from String Letter Publishing - a combination of essays on creative approach, illustrations by Christina Rauh Fishburne, and a songbook of original compositions for solo guitar and choir. Rauh’s work has been featured in Ploughshares, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and The Advocate. He has given artist talks for music and literature departments at institutions including Louisiana State University, University of Tennessee, and New Jersey institute of Technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/eb35d41f-ec80-4211-a4a9-cb48d04759aa/DAVID+ROTHENBERG.jpg Events - Charlie Rauh and David Rothenberg - David Rothenberg Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and more recently Just Leave It All Behind and Lost Steps. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Umru, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. In 2024 he won a Grammy Award as part of For the Birds, in the category of Best Boxed Set. Whale Music and Secret Sounds of Ponds are his latest books. Nightingales In Berlin and Eastern Anthems are his latest films. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/play-nice-2 monthly 0.5 2025-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/36aba723-f897-4c61-897a-a7ae631317d3/9780593642573.jpeg Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE 2 - PLAY NICE A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty. Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b68657cc-cf68-4036-87c2-87cdc0713138/Rachel%2BHarrison%2BAuthor%2BPhoto.jpeg Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE 2 - Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8a8f389d-fc83-4dec-810a-e882979601e4/dennis%2Bmahoney.png Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE 2 - Dennis Mahoney Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club-6-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/37a14c52-c9ab-4dca-a6c7-f720b1745b4b/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-6-2025.jpg Events - Dark Fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-childrens-book-festival monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0ef9f05d-3973-42b1-a751-74e4e38575a6/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-POSTER-11x17.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105312173-K4ET9ZU3U8D25JRBDGHR/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-12PM.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105312136-UHVJ6ZTWHGV9PP6K3VOY/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-BEACON-LIBRARY.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105314050-A7KDDHS68QH840NVDRE0/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-MCQUAIDE-ART-DEMO.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105314329-UIPZPYE6S38KUTSXWUMK/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-WILSON-ART-DEMO-INSTA.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105331047-T5O8FIWZWKRG0260LFR8/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-2PM.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1753105331659-8A7K2HFKO1YTI2W81AE4/CHILDREN-BOOK-FEST-3PM.jpg Events - STANZA Children's Book Festival https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/aviator monthly 0.5 2025-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c992e468-8334-444e-a72c-e1d021b8dbc3/STANZA-INSTA-AVIATOR.jpg Events - The Aviator and the Showman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/80b5fdb4-a4d7-4024-9387-500777864cb3/lgs-authorphoto.jpeg Events - The Aviator and the Showman - Laurie Gwen Shapiro Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her documentary film awards include an Independent Spirit Award for directing IFC’s Keep the River on Your Right, and an Emmy nomination for HBO’s Finishing Heaven. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of Best NYC Essay or Article from the GANYC Apple Awards, the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Stowaway (Simon & Schuster) was her best selling first full-length work of nonfiction, and was an Indie next selection. Her next nonfiction book will be The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam and the Marriage that Made an American Icon, for Viking Books. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/50ab74ca-5f76-4dfe-84c4-b4f208b49e58/mckible.jpg Events - The Aviator and the Showman - Adam McKible Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of Circulating Jim Crow (2024) and The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and he co-edited the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2005). https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-5-7-dwxcz monthly 0.5 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1a949b47-dddd-420b-a7d0-067f5f605a11/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-GENERAL.jpg Events - STANZA CAMPERS - 8-12 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-campers-5-7 monthly 0.5 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1a949b47-dddd-420b-a7d0-067f5f605a11/STANZA-INSTA-CAMPERS-GENERAL.jpg Events - STANZA CAMPERS - 5-7 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/play-nice monthly 0.5 2025-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/36aba723-f897-4c61-897a-a7ae631317d3/9780593642573.jpeg Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE - PLAY NICE A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty. Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b68657cc-cf68-4036-87c2-87cdc0713138/Rachel%2BHarrison%2BAuthor%2BPhoto.jpeg Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE - Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8a8f389d-fc83-4dec-810a-e882979601e4/dennis%2Bmahoney.png Events - Rachen Harrison - PLAY NICE - Dennis Mahoney Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/hazel monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e5fffe8d-1dba-4cf3-8c4d-263f7ee567b0/STANZA-INSTA-HAZEL.jpg Events - Hazel was a Good Girl - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/808b14cd-71e2-4567-91d3-7a53364795b7/9781960988591.jpg Events - Hazel was a Good Girl - HAZEL WAS A GOOD GIRL The tragic and mysterious death of Hazel Drew that inspired the cult hit TV show Twin Peaks, is finally solved by Dr. Jerry C. Drake. The legend of Hazel Drew spread through stories of her ghost haunting the woods where her body was found. It was a hot summer day in July 1908 when the body of a young woman was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Hazel Irene Drew was murdered. Her death captured headlines across the nation and around the world, but after a whirlwind investigation lasting less than thirty days, the District Attorney abruptly closed the case. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, with clippings and photographs from local Troy and Albany newspapers from 1908, Dr. Jerry C. Drake parses out the facts from the legend through back alleys and dark mountain forests, in pursuit of Hazel Drew's killer, in this engaging, historical investigation of a tragic American story. With firsthand accounts from locals dreaming of clues, tabloid journalists, railroad Robber Barons and political bosses, psychic investigators, and even a mysterious hypnotist, the tabloid sensation is debunked and the real woman is finally revealed. This is the definitive story of Hazel Drew, whose ghost can finally rest, knowing that her killer has been exposed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/55b17d44-a78d-468b-a341-9ba5d4bab848/Jerry+Drake+bio+pic.jpg Events - Hazel was a Good Girl - Dr. Jerry C. Drake Dr. Jerry C. Drake is a career civil servant, former professor of history, all-around amateur detective, with a wide-ranging educational background to include degrees in anthropology and United States history. This is his first foray into true crime. His short stories have appeared in CLASH Books anthologies; Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath and Walk Hand in Hand into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/df71cbb8-d3fc-4fd3-a341-2594ddf32756/Leza+Cantoral+bio+pic.jpg Events - Hazel was a Good Girl - Leza Cantoral Leza Cantoral is publisher/publicist at local Troy based press CLASH Books and author of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest and Trash Panda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/71075118-5879-42d4-acf8-abd5eb7bcb2f/IMG_0505.JPG Events - Hazel was a Good Girl - Francesca DeCapita Francesca is a psychic medium, tarot reader, and spiritual life coach based in New York City. She helps people find clarity in love, career, and life purpose through grounded spiritual insight and energy work. Known for her no-fluff, intuitive approach, Francesca empowers clients to reconnect with their truth, shift their energy, and confidently move forward. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-june-25 monthly 0.5 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/84b051e8-c0b1-4858-9ca0-6215a2e01dd2/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-BOOKCLUB-JUNE-25.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/ecstasy monthly 0.5 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ce210ff2-9182-4c7e-a882-6373db8225d1/hi+res_ECSTASY.jpg Events - Ecstasy author event - ECSTASY A deliciously dark horror reimagining of a Greek tragedy, by Ivy Pochoda, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. Lena wants her life back. Her wealthy, controlling, humorless husband has just died, and now she contends with her controlling, humorless son, Drew. Lena lands in Naxos with her best friend in tow for the unveiling of her son's, pet project--the luxurious Agape Villas. Years of marriage amongst the wealthy elite has whittled Lena's spirit into rope and sinew, smothered by tasteful cocktail dresses and unending small talk. On Naxos she yearns to rediscover her true nature, remember the exuberant dancer and party girl she once was, but Drew tightens his grip, keeping her cloistered inside the hotel, demanding that she fall in line. Lena is intrigued by a group of women living in tents on the beach in front of the Agape. She can feel their drums at night, hear their seductive leader calling her to dance. Soon she'll find that an ancient God stirs on the beach, awakening dark desires of women across the island. The only questions left will be whether Lena will join them, and what it will cost her. Ecstasy is a riveting, darkly poetic, one-sitting read about empowerment, desire, and what happens when women reject the roles set out for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/acc36653-d177-415a-9246-b9dfbbf41ee5/Author+Photo_Ivy+Pochoda_%28c%29+Darran+Tiernan.jpg Events - Ecstasy author event - Ivy Pochoda Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row Los Angeles where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d68e3b87-f6df-4fd2-870b-f91b34cea0c3/EC+author+2021+%281%29.jpg Events - Ecstasy author event - Elizabeth Crane Elizabeth Crane is the author of the memoir This Story Will Change (Counterpoint, 2022) and six works of fiction, including the story collection Turf (Soft Skull, 2017) and the novel The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial, 2016). Her stories have been translated into several languages and appear in numerous publications, including Guernica, Catapult, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Fairy Tale Review, Huffington Post, Chicago Reader, The Believer, and air/light, and the anthologies Love in the Time of Time’s Up (Tortoise, 2022), The Best of the Web (Dzanc, 2008 and 2010), and The Best Underground Fiction (Stolen Time, 2006). Her work is performed regularly as part of NPR’s Selected Shorts and has been adapted for film and stage, most notably with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at UC Riverside–Palm Desert and is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/feel-good-june-25 monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/79329793-fdac-40df-91e4-8c3bc2adfe65/STANZA-INSTA-FEEL-GOOD-JUNE-25.jpg Events - Feel Good book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-june-25 monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bcb23d71-c0a2-477d-a9dd-24007ecfbd7e/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-JUNE-25.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/54562ddf-c48f-42a3-89e0-8638147f36e9/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOK-CLUB-JUNE-25.jpg Events - Lit Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/juliadahl-public-reading monthly 0.5 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1747513709270-RCJVXD7LVG0ULBHGHPY0/STANZA-INSTA-JULIA-WORKSHOP-READING.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0e14ce18-0c2e-49e2-af10-e3ff348b6654/maria+C.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Maria Cuccia Maria Cuccia started making up stories long before she learned to write. As a child she enjoyed telling scary stories to her younger cousins, leading to their parents requesting she quit scaring their kids. She now lives in New Paltz where she enjoys thrift shopping, reading Stephen King, and adores her cat, Toaster. About the WIP Reading an excerpt from Thief, a fairy story about a young man who was never invited to wield magic, and the consequences of taking it anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4d2279a4-86bf-41b8-b824-c909f72dbe9c/caroline.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Caroline Francis Caroline Francis began her writing career at the age of 5 when she dictated her first story entitled “The Bear” to her mother. She then moved on to poetry typical of a moody teen before trying her hand at novels. When not writing about teenage vampires, she enjoys walks by the Hudson, photography, and obscure bits of history. You can find her ramblings on her substack, Female Main Character. About the WIP I started my work in progress in the fall of 2008, when I was 17 years old. Back then, it was a coming of age story that rapidly turned into a psychological mystery. I called it Half Crazy. Over the years it’s never quite left me alone, and it’s been through many twists and turns to get to where it is now; a YA urban fantasy novel in progress about vampires, witches, true crime obsession, and the things that we bury within ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/955db7d3-0f84-46c2-9ad3-f8e8dc02c7e0/MARK-HEADSHOT.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Mark Harris Mark is a writer and co-owner of Stanza Books. His first novel, HEKATE’S RETURN is available at the shop. In 2025, he’s releasing two novellas through Stanza Publishing. He lives in Beacon with his partner Andrea Talarico and two cats, Hank Williams and Teeny Turner. Mark is also an experience designer who focuses on storytelling in physical space. Clients include HBO, Netflix, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and New York Life. About the WIP This novella is called FREE WILL IS AN ILLUSION, FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HAS A WEAVER. It’s an idea I’ve had for a long time. In 2025, a few threads came together to make this the right time to write it. It’s a horror novella set in an alternate history Beacon. It has a cult, cosmic horror, a hard-boiled protagonist, and a character who sets herself on fire. I took Julia’s workshop to kickstart my writing practice again, and renew my daily writing habit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/275e3f9d-ed20-48a9-84af-fad3a7d5b7e9/fn_photo.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Filip Nonkovic Fil is a creative director who has designed digital products, games, businesses and brands. He lives in an orchard in the Hudson Valley with his wife, four cats, and a dove. About the WIP The Gigantomachy is a Homeric epic set in a speculative far future, in which an engineered race of humans rise up and challenge their creators and the Fates themselves to end an occupation that has lasted for 500 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/be9364f4-6b3b-400b-bf51-fe93851aa468/Maria+Ricapito+at+Boscobel.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Maria Ricapito I have spent years as a writer and editor for glossy magazines such as Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle Decor, and Cosmopolitan. In my career, I have written about everything from how to apply the latest iteration of green eye shadow to what it’s like to be the daughter of a serial killer (neither from personal experience). I have documented celebrity homes in the Hamptons and Hudson Valley. I have written for The New York Times… albeit about bar carts, vampire movies, and the weird pretzel legs of people sitting in the front row of fashion shows. Recently I collaborated with a woman incarcerated for murder who wanted to write a memoir.Having done almost everything I wanted to do in journalism, I decided I wanted to write a “thriller” or crime novel just like the ones I love to read. I’ve worked on it in two writing workshops so far and find that, without the feedback and deadlines, things slow to a crawl. About the WIP My novel is set in the Hudson Valley, and I’ve enjoyed doing historical research on the West Point Foundry and the Civil War.I went to Yale University from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and then moved to New York City to start working in publishing. I may be the only person alive who has been a Literature major at Yale, an editorial assistant at Vanity Fair, and (a few years before that) an Arby’s employee. I live with my 90 yo mother, Carolyn, and two cats (Patsy and Dolly) and two dogs (Amber and Gabbie). I ended up in the Hudson Valley about 18 years ago and never want to leave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0a84fd36-de8a-491c-a450-58012be61da2/kimberly.jpg Events - Writing workshop public reading - Kimberly Sabatini Kimberly Sabatini is the author of a young adult novel, TOUCHING THE SURFACE, and living proof that publishing one book doesn’t make writing new stories easier. Her work-in-progress, another YA she’s titled SPARKED, is a project she’s been trying to bring to illumination for eight years. When Kim feels called to a story, it’s because she has big questions that need to be answered, and complex emotions she’s finally decided she can no longer ignore. Year after year—draft after draft—this story has poked and prodded its creator, but only recently have the pieces fallen into place. And even though the concepts and the characters are finally making sense, Kim struggled to get the words on the page. You can lose a bit of confidence in yourself when a project takes longer than you expect. Thank goodness Stanza offered this Writers Workshop! It was the perfect support at the exact right time and it re-sparked Kim’s confidence and helped her to fall in love with the project all over again. She’s excited to share a little of her manuscript with you. About the WIP SPARKED By Kimberly J. Sabatini When West Point Foundry Institute's Leadership and Peace Program recruits former best friends, Lennie and Ridley, they discover that everyone in the program suffers from rare and vivid auras. After signing a pre-curriculum, non-disclosure agreement, the girls learn their episodes aren’t a medical issue, but the real reason the Army wants to train them. Learning to manipulate the aura-causing electrical waves in the brain's cortex, the young adults at WPFI discover they each have enhanced sensory skills only experienced by animals. The girls' growing role as new-era peacekeepers energizes them as they hone their unusual abilities, but when they’re reminded that darkness surrounds every spark, they’ll have to decide whether they believe peace and power can coexist in those who lead—and what kind of leaders they will be. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dark-fiction-book-club monthly 0.5 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/93bb8e23-5a47-47d4-8b43-36750881ae67/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-MAY-25.jpg Events - Dark fiction book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-may-25 monthly 0.5 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/319e17de-1073-49cc-b777-c3aa7f1a2f1a/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-5-2025.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-may-25 monthly 0.5 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d1a378fe-ee55-4241-b4f4-55c4418e24d2/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-MAY-2025.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/filgate monthly 0.5 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fdf304a3-daf4-4eda-9f7b-541fba2206f9/what-my-father-and-i-dont-talk-about-9781668049655_hr+%281%29.jpg Events - What My Father and I Don't Talk About - Make it stand out What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About has become a rare gem in the literary world. Both a viral sensation online and chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the best nonfiction books of the past two decades, it is an essential collection that dives into the personal and poignant topics we often struggle to discuss with those who are meant to know and love us best. This captivating follow-up, edited by Michele Filgate, tackles the intricate and challenging relationships we have with our dads, breaking the silence around these vital connections. Andrew Altschul reflects on the life-altering experience of becoming a father and how it reshaped his view of his own dad’s parenting. Isle McElroy shares memories of weekends spent tagging along as their father fixed up the homes of their wealthier neighbors. Jaquira Díaz delves into her father’s history in 1970s Williamsburg, uncovering the roots of their shared restlessness. Tomás Q. Morín paints a raw portrait of an absentee father, while Kelly McMasters portrays a loving and dedicated one. Maurice Carlos Ruffin insightfully captures a father who communicated through his integrity rather than words. Jiordan Castle reveals how we can love our fathers from a distance and Susan Muaddi Darraj explores the particular challenges of “eldest daughter syndrome” as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants. With moments that are both humorous and deeply moving, this anthology is the second act that many have been eagerly waiting for. Contributions by Michele Filgate, Andrew Altschul, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Dylan Landis, Jaquira Díaz, Kelly McMasters, Isle McElroy, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Tomás Q. Morín, Robin Reif, Heather Sellers, Jiordan Castle, Nayomi Munaweera, Joanna Rakoff, and Julie Buntin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9df23eae-2df6-4f0e-84af-34b71ed2da6e/Michele_Filgate_portraits_15.jpg Events - What My Father and I Don't Talk About - Michele Filgate Michele Filgate is the editor of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Oprah Daily, and many other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. She teaches at The New School. Photo credit: Sylvie Rosokoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4a6a704a-fc70-4943-b922-1f1ff12a5f48/RReif.Headshot.2020.copy.jpg Events - What My Father and I Don't Talk About - Robin Reif Robin Reif was awarded the 2023 Jeffrey E. Smith nonfiction prize from The Missouri Review and was honored as a Notable in Best American Essays 2023 and as a Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize 2025. Her work has appeared in The New York Times “Modern Love” column, McSweeney’s, The Missouri Review, and Off-Assignment, among other publications. Ayin Press published her first short fiction, and she is currently working on a memoir. As a storytelling junkie who’s braved the stages of The Moth and The Magnet Theater, Robin will appear in an upcoming episode of the PBS series “Stories from the Stage.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/53813df4-daee-4609-beb4-5020fac714a3/Sari+Botton+at+57.jpg Events - What My Father and I Don't Talk About - Sari Botton Sari Botton is the author of the memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself...Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo. For five years, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/indie-bookstore-day monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1f7f19e3-95f4-45d0-b560-05b88d1355f6/STANZA-INSTA-INDIE-BOOKSTORE-DAY.jpg Events - Indie Bookstore Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-cirque monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fe65f53c-0a13-415f-99c7-408e3d49bed5/STANZA-INSTA-CIRQUE+DU+CREEP.jpg Events - Stanza @ Cirque du Creep - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stalker monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0a656bfd-4f55-4d9a-87e7-007ba63e44c0/9781641296267.jpg Events - Paula Bomer - THE STALKER book launch - THE STALKER AN UNTALENTED MR. RIPLEY, A DUMB AMERICAN PSYCHO: A young man combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early ’90s. In the same pathologically destructive tenor and satirical edge of works like YOU or THE SUBSTANCE, Paula Bomer’s THE STALKER is an excoriating character study that confirms her as a contemporary master of the pitch-black comic novel. IN THE YEARS SINCE THE #MeToo movement rose to prominence in American culture, the absurdity and horrors of (white) male privilege have only become more brazen. Moved by the writings of radical feminists like Andrea Dworkin, the case of Gisèle Pelicot, and much more, Paula Bomer’s new novel The Stalker offers a timely, compelling examination of sociopathy & entitlement. In laugh-out-loud outrageous and subversive prose, Bomer captures emotional abuses in every order of magnitude through the portrayal of an everyday predator and his unchecked pretension and privilege. From gaslighting to weaponized incompetence, Bomer’s dissection reveals an entire playbook of coercions that her antihero Doughty carries out insidiously, often taking advantage of the gray area between social impropriety and unlawful harm and (mostly) failing upwards despite his lack of self-estimation. But regardless of any chuckles and groans the book might elicit, The Stalker remains both horrifically serious and darkly clever as Bomer follows Doughty’s inflated sense of ethnocentrism and the gross distortions of his self-mythologizing, both parts of his modus operandi. Fans of depraved, satirically indulgent literary fiction à la Bret Easton Ellis or true crime podcasts about con men like Dirty John and Who the Hell Is Hamish? will revel in this novel and its portrait of the sociopath as a young loser. Though set in the ’90s, Doughty’s point of view speaks to today’s escalating violence and unrest in the United States—from Trump https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4a28488b-c5db-4401-b18a-1c451fe403bc/Paula+Bomer+2024_credit+Patricia+Aquino.jpg Events - Paula Bomer - THE STALKER book launch - Paula Bomer Paula Bomer is the author of the novels Tante Eva and Nine Months and the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and Other Stories, as well as the essay collection Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including New York Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Fiction, and The Mississippi Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/13652982-b0e7-490c-b6cf-f44d4a50b86a/9780593320907.jpeg Events - Paula Bomer - THE STALKER book launch - HOT AIR A joyfully unhinged story of money, marriage, sex, and revenge unspools when a billionaire crashes his hot-air balloon into the middle of a post-pandemic first date. Joannie hadn’t been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and their first kiss is, well, it’s not the best, but Joannie could convince herself it was nice enough. But when Joannie’s childhood crush, a summer-camp fling turned famous billionaire, crash-lands his hot-air balloon in Johnny’s swimming pool, Joannie dives in. Soon she finds herself alighting on a lost weekend with Johnny the bad kisser, Jonathan the billionaire, and Julia, his smart, stunning wife. Does Joannie want Jonathan? Does Julia want her husband? Or Joannie? Or Joannie’s beautiful little girl? Does Johnny want Julia? Does Jonathan want Joannie, or Julia, or maybe, his much younger personal assistant, Vivian, who is tasked to fix it all? A tale of lust and money and lust for money, Hot Air is as astonishing as it is blisteringly funny, a delirious, delicious story for our billionaire era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d8665899-d9c8-49a5-8a1b-6e774dcdffe2/marcyauthorphot0.jpg Events - Paula Bomer - THE STALKER book launch - MARCY DERMANSKY MARCY DERMANSKY is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hot Air Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie, and Twins. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and The Edward F. Albee Foundation. She lives with her daughter in Montclair, NJ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/59e02100-1225-4338-b927-d6644b592f38/jackie-corley.jpg Events - Paula Bomer - THE STALKER book launch - Jackie Corley In past lives, Jackie Corley was a reporter, a drone operator, and the publisher of Word Riot. In the current one, she's VP of Content for a radio company. Corley received an MFA from the Bennington College. Her fiction has appeared in BULL, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Redivider and Fourteen Hills, among others. She lives in the Hudson Valley but will always be a Jersey girl at heart. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sundowners monthly 0.5 2025-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1744384787194-YQG7FNXEI5RTGLPX5RDK/STANZA-INSTA-KEISLING-5-17.jpg Events - The Sundowner’s Dance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/31279a9f-3150-4582-87ae-bbb2520dc111/sundowners+dance.jpeg Events - The Sundowner’s Dance - The Sundowner’s Dance Jerry Campbell just wants to be left alone. Grief-stricken over the death of his wife Abigail, the elderly widower and recent retiree is desperate for a change of scenery. When his realtor suggests a new home in Fairview Acres, a retirement community in the Poconos, Jerry figures it will be a nice place to spend the rest of his days in solitude. Until he moves in. Weird neighbors. Nightly block parties. Strange noises across his rooftop at all hours. Worst of all is Arthur Peterson, chairman of the Fairview Acres Community Association, who seems obsessed with coaxing Jerry into participating in neighborhood activities. At first, Jerry shrugs off the incidents and eccentricities, telling himself he doesn’t want to be the guy who complains about everything—but that all changes one evening when Katherine Dunnally appears on his doorstep with an ominous warning: “You need to leave. The worms…they dance at nightfall…” His neighbors all say Katherine suffers from a form of dementia called Sundowner’s Syndrome, but as the weeks progress and the strangeness mounts, Jerry begins to suspect there is something else going on in his neighborhood. Something that has to do with the huge stone in the community park… Heartfelt and unsettling, Todd Keisling’s latest novel, The Sundowner’s Dance, propels readers through a terrifying exploration of grief, dementia, and perhaps the greatest horror of all: growing old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cb21f708-2dda-4caa-8865-6c6d6d5b6eef/Keisling_0005.jpg Events - The Sundowner’s Dance - TODD KEISLING TODD KEISLING is the two-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author of Devil’s Creek, Scanlines, Cold, Black & Infinite, and most recently, The Sundowner’s Dance, among several others. A pair of his earlier works were recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research & Creativity Prize for Creative Writing (2002 and 2005), and his second novel, The Liminal Man, was an Indie Book Award finalist in Horror & Suspense (2013). He lives in Pennsylvania with his family. He works as a freelance graphic designer under the moniker of Dullington Design Co. In 2021, he was the recipient of This Is Horror’s Award for Cover Art of the Year for his cover design of Arterial Bloom, edited by Mercedes M. Yardley and published by Crystal Lake Publishing. Todd is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. He is a former editor for The Self-Publishing Review, hosted Crystal Lake Publishing’s Beneath the Lake interview series, and co-hosted the popular live YouTube series Awkward Conversations with Geeky Writers alongside Mercedes M. Yardley, Anthony J. Rapino, Nikki Nelson-Hicks, Eryk Pruitt, and Amelia Bennett. A former Kentucky resident, Keisling now lives in Pennsylvania with his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2becaa64-6499-4b5d-ac6e-d49140f2d0af/lees.jpg Events - The Sundowner’s Dance - Jonathan Lees After twenty-five years working with video and film in NYC, Jonathan Lees has now materialized in the Hudson Valley to continue inscribing arcane texts for accursed volumes such as the Bad Hand Books releases, Long Division, and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology, The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors, the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, and his story, "Power Out, Wind Howling" from Even In The Grave, recently received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/feel-good-book-club-may-25 monthly 0.5 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9d7145c5-eb94-4c11-86d9-975d40cfc7ab/STANZA-INSTA-FEEL-GOOD-MAY.jpg Events - Feel Good book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/poetry-mary-newell-heller-levinson monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c2eb8b2e-e48b-4f10-a656-d0053add7b29/STANZA-INSTA-MARY-NEWELL.jpg Events - Poetry: Mary Newell & Heller Levinson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d3e5a03f-7e72-4b87-9bf8-d160e8baea4b/headshot+22+web.jpg Events - Poetry: Mary Newell & Heller Levinson - Mary Newell Mary Newell is the author of the poetry book ENTWINE (BlazeVox Press) as well as the poetry chapbooks TILT/ HOVER/ VEER (Codhill Press) and Re-SURGE, poems in numerous journals and anthologies, and occasional essays including “When Poetry Rivers” (Interim journal 38.3). is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Newell teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Connecticut, Stamford and intermittent online classes. She lives in the Hudson Highlands of New York. Recording of an interview on ecopoetics with the Brooklyn Rail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIp-pbuSjM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cbcf3cc8-152a-429c-9cc5-696230eca5c9/Toxi+Photo.jpg Events - Poetry: Mary Newell & Heller Levinson - Heller Levinson HELLER LEVINSON’s most recent books are QUERY CABOODLE, SHIFT GRISTLE (Black Widow Press, 2023), THE ABYSSAL RECITATIONS (Concrete Mist Press, 2024), VALVULAR ASH (BWP, 2024), QUERY CABOODLE 2 (Sulfur Editions, 2024), with CROSSFALL (BWP) slated for a spring 2025 release. His book, LURE (Black Widow Press, 2022), won the “2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.” https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-may-25 monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/28b74e81-2b5d-46a3-bed7-f32b566d2df8/STANZA-INSTA-LIT-BOOKCLUB-MAY-25.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-april-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d21ac30a-4d39-4c7c-9f43-82c5d2bd81fa/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-BOOK-CLUB-APRIL-25.png Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-april-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7a43b19d-c23d-4330-b7d1-a76b39faeafa/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOK-CLUB-APRIL-25.jpg Events - Horror book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-4-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a9a6b3c6-6283-4389-be16-320e2881c2e6/STANZA-INSTA-sci-fi-4-25.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-4-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/efb75532-d90d-4835-aabb-3aff40085099/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-4-25.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-april-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/53eedbd5-1660-49ff-ad76-8edcd8e9a46c/STANZA-INSTA-NEIGHBORS.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-3-25 monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bc9a6b1b-6762-4341-b396-b26d55acf5c4/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-BOOK-CLUB-MARCH-25.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fear-no-pharaoh monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c9dbbae7-35ad-427f-9e16-d6942e2becad/cover.jpg Events - Fear No Pharaoh - Make it stand out A dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery—and fought the Civil War. Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to protect themselves in a hostile world? In Fear No Pharaoh, the journalist and historian Richard Kreitner sets this question at the heart of the Civil War era. Using original sources, he tells the intertwined stories of six American Jews who helped to shape a tumultuous time, including Judah Benjamin, the brilliant, secretive lawyer who became Jefferson Davis’s trusted confidante; Morris Raphall, a Swedish-born rabbi who defended slavery as biblically justified; and Raphall's rival rabbis—the celebrated Isaac Mayer Wise, who urged Jews to stay out of the slavery controversy to avoid attracting attention, and David Einhorn, whose fiery sermons condemning bondage led to a pro-slavery mob threatening his life. We also meet August Bondi, a veteran of Europe’s 1848 revolutions, who fought with John Brown in “Bleeding Kansas” and later in the Union Army, and the Polish émigré Ernestine Rose, a feminist, atheist, and abolitionist who championed “emancipation of all kinds.” As he tracks these characters, Kreitner illuminates the shifting dynamics of Jewish life in America—and the debates about religion, morality, and politics that endure to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a8ee0ad3-adac-4afc-aced-b1ae4d35e678/Kreitner%2C+Richard+%28c%29+Eva+Deitch.jpg Events - Fear No Pharaoh - Richard Kreitner Richard Kreitner is the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union and Booked: A Traveler’s Guide to Literary Locations Around the World. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Slate, Raritan, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, and other publications. He lives in Beacon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/30ca48c5-5776-46f5-84b6-ed8bac689571/Brent.jpg Events - Fear No Pharaoh - Rabbi Brent Spodek Rabbi Brent works extensively with couples preparing for marriage, serves as a member of the faculty at Pardes North America and is the emeritus rabbi at Beacon Hebrew Alliance. He has been recognized by the Jewish Forward as one of the most inspiring rabbis in America, by Hudson Valley Magazine as a Person to Watch and by Newsweek as "a rabbi to watch." He is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute and a Fellow of the Schusterman Foundation. Previously, Rabbi Brent served as the Rabbi in Residence at American Jewish World Service and was a Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York. Rabbi Brent holds rabbinic ordination and a master's degree in philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was the first recipient of the Neubauer Fellowship. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-may monthly 0.5 2025-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9af57d3b-cc81-4311-a8d9-68e7aba8fb42/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-MAY-21.jpg Events - In Comparison - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-mar-25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/da183dbb-bd5b-48d5-bd87-0f6adc4fd9d0/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOK-CLUB-3-25.jpg Events - Horror book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/rekt monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/014b8214-cc2c-4dd0-8a18-57c7bea839cd/9781645661597.jpg Events - REKT - Alex Gonzalez book launch - REKT A lot of folks shun horror because they think it’s all slashers and blood and gore. But as I’ve said many times, I view horror as a direct descendent of Greek tragedy. Great horror, truly great horror, is about people. The monsters, ghosts, or otherwise beasties are symbols, metaphors, manifestations of the darkness that lives in us all. So, I’m starting to fine-tune my horror book club to include more dark and gothic fiction, in the hopes of luring more of you in. Our current pick Hungerstone is a great example. Check out my write-up in the book clubs section. For the launch of REKT, I’ve paired Alex with horror legend John Langan. Two radically different writers using fantastical scenarios to explore grief. Langan’s The Fisherman imagines a man so distraught at the loss of his wife, he employs occult rituals and wrestles a leviathan for the power to bring her back. The Fisherman is not exactly scary. It is a horrifying and awe-inspiring gaze into the darkest parts of the human heart, by a master of the genre. Gonzalez’s REKT shows us how profound loss can drive us down the deepest rabbit holes. A stunning debut, REKT bears down with unrelenting dread and terror as the lead character spirals into the dark web. If you’re not familiar, the dark web is a secret internet hidden from search engines, devoid of friendly domain names, and only accessible via arcane web addresses. The dark web is where criminals sell drugs, weapons, and much, much worse. REKT takes us to the most sinister possible version of this dark web, but certainly not the version you expect. REKT will not show you child or animal abuse, or anything like that. Like the modern web itself, REKT’s terrors are personalized, tailored just for you. There are no ghosts, ghouls, or cryptids. Oh no, the monsters in REKT are the scariest of them all. Fans of the crime fiction like, say Gillian Flynn, will find a lot to love in REKT. The Fisherman roots itself in Hudson Valley and Catskills history, and is largely timeless. The modern sections do not rely too much on current tech or customs. REKT is immediate. It speaks directly to the anxieties the modern web creates in us right now. Beyond being a good book, REKT is an important book to read in 2025. I’m cooking up a range of questions to get these two authors riffing, and I hope y’all come out. It’s going to be a great night. -Mark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6ff23b99-87ee-4c4d-bae2-2f90331e0215/ALEX_G_2023_22.jpg Events - REKT - Alex Gonzalez book launch - Alex Gonzalez Alex Gonzalez is a WGA screenwriter and horror fiction writer. He is the cofounder of the horror zine You Are Not Alone and has taught genre writing workshops at various magazines and institutions. Born and raised in Florida, he now lives with his wife in Beacon, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a0b94730-3557-4a3f-b464-50740a86ed77/langan.jpg Events - REKT - Alex Gonzalez book launch - John Langan John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. For his work, he has received the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror awards. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson award, he serves on its Board of Advisors. His reviews and essays have been widely published. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and bubbling fish tanks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7b4ae480-d9a1-4bdb-84ed-76f748c523c5/9781939905215.jpeg Events - REKT - Alex Gonzalez book launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-mar-25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fedf999f-d41b-4eab-bbf9-f1c36c5cc9b9/STANZA-INSTA-MONK-ROBOT.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/feel-good-book-club monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c7e06b43-e74f-4ec2-99c8-7ec321bb47da/STANZA-INSTA-FEEL-GOOD.jpg Events - FEEL GOOD BOOK CLUB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-1-9t6jd-gs8dk-lbweh monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/297b18eb-9c9a-479e-b84a-e34f4aafb515/STANZA-INSTA-FICTION-WORKSHOP-JULIA-DAHL.jpg Events - Fiction Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-1-9t6jd-gs8dk monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/297b18eb-9c9a-479e-b84a-e34f4aafb515/STANZA-INSTA-FICTION-WORKSHOP-JULIA-DAHL.jpg Events - Fiction Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-1-9t6jd monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/297b18eb-9c9a-479e-b84a-e34f4aafb515/STANZA-INSTA-FICTION-WORKSHOP-JULIA-DAHL.jpg Events - Fiction Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-1 monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/297b18eb-9c9a-479e-b84a-e34f4aafb515/STANZA-INSTA-FICTION-WORKSHOP-JULIA-DAHL.jpg Events - Fiction Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-march-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/309575c9-cf6b-47b9-a553-f257d1c343a8/STANZA-INSTA-BLACKTONGUE-THIEF.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/vhs monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76eac43b-51ee-4217-b44e-ce24dfd995f9/STANZA-INSTA-VHS.jpg Events - VHS / It Was Her New York - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a0fa0c2d-961b-4f65-a023-c8c3d871c2c7/cc+faculty+photo.jpg Events - VHS / It Was Her New York - CHRIS CAMPANIONI CHRIS CAMPANIONI’s work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a novel named VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023), and the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024). He is the writer in residence at Pace University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and media studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bfdcd69c-2a3e-4d62-81bb-6ba56a8bc404/MOED-HEADSHOT-BOOK-CLOSE-UP.jpeg Events - VHS / It Was Her New York - C.O. MOED C.O. Moed grew up on New York’s Lower East Side when it was still a tough neighborhood. A recipient of the Elizabeth George Grant for Fiction and an alum of the groundbreaking WOW Cafe, her work has appeared in various publications, including the Silver Tongued Devil Anthology; AWAKE: Reader for the Sleepless; Thorn Literary Magazine; Unexpected Stories; Inspirational Art Magazine; and Sensitive Skin. She has been a featured reader at many venues and series, including the KGB Bar, great weather for MEDIA/Parkside, Singapore Unbound and the NYC Poetry Festival. Her debut memoir, It Was Her New York: True Stories and Snapshots (Rootstock Publishing, 2024) was a BookLife Editor's Pick, Kirkus Review Recommended Book and winner of the Firebird Book Award Judges' Pick, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2f316bef-9060-4572-a019-fd6fa2bec759/20241210_KATHY_CURTO_PORTRAITS0428.jpg Events - VHS / It Was Her New York - Kathy Curto Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College/The Writing Institute and Montclair State University as well as several nonprofit organizations and writing centers in the metropolitan area. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, and in the anthologies And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere (released in both Italian and English) and Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now. She has also published widely in a variety of literary journals and magazines. Kathy’s piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by The New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021. She is co-founder of Key to the Castle Workshop and serves on the board of the Italian American Writers Association. Kathy lives with her family in the Hudson Valley. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-march-25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6834d51-d6d9-44ff-b222-69815a66da44/STANZA-INSTA-LIT+BOOK+CLUB+MARCH.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dunbar-mckible monthly 0.5 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0c0acb95-7eb9-4f42-8a7a-c7d3bd7b6dd1/9781982146702.jpg Events - The Roaring 20s and the Harlem Renaissance - The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8855e47d-dc0e-4d78-ae47-739bed8a456f/9780060555467_a660fdc7-2679-4dbc-b8a1-e76a65aa00c9.jpg Events - The Roaring 20s and the Harlem Renaissance - When Washington Was in Vogue Nearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love story written and set during the Harlem Renaissance. When bobbed-hair flappers were in vogue and Harlem was hopping, Washington, D.C., did its share of roaring, too. Davy Carr, a veteran of the Great War and a new arrival in the nation's capital, is welcomed into the drawing rooms of the city's Black elite. Through letters, Davy regales an old friend in Harlem with his impressions of race, politics, and the state of Black America as well as his own experiences as an old-fashioned bachelor adrift in a world of alluring modern women. With an introduction by Adam McKible and commentary by Emily Bernard, this novel, a timeless love story wonderfully enriched with the drama and style of one of the most hopeful moments in African American history, is as "delightful as it is significant" (Essence). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/50ab74ca-5f76-4dfe-84c4-b4f208b49e58/mckible.jpg Events - The Roaring 20s and the Harlem Renaissance - Adam McKible Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of Circulating Jim Crow (2024) and The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and he co-edited the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2005). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/df3f3374-a9af-430b-ae27-d43966a4dc7a/dunbar.jpg Events - The Roaring 20s and the Harlem Renaissance - Eve Dunbar Eve Dunbar is an English professor at Rice University (TX). She is the author of Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: African American Women Writing Under Slavery (U of Minnesota Press, 2024), Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers Between the Nation and the World, and co-editor of African American Literature in Transition: 1930-1940. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spores-fungal-horror monthly 0.5 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e014957e-c187-4391-9d5c-93974816e0a5/STANZA-INSTA-SPORES.jpg Events - DARK SPORES - FUNGAL HORROR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sargent-stanza monthly 0.5 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c4c216a9-520b-42c4-8d2a-0628eafdcaeb/STANZA-INSTA-SARGENT-FEB-12.jpg Events - Sargent + Stanza - Sargent + Stanza We’re proud to partner with Sargent Elementary! Stanza will provide books for the Feb 12 assembly with Karina Yan Glaser! Order any book and we’ll have it waiting for you at the school assembly Feb 12 :) Or, pick it up at Stanza! Order all 7, get a BONUS $10 Stanza gift card! https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/pre-launch-twilight-of-the-gods monthly 0.5 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/21f7c3c0-77fb-4e2c-981f-69f0181f67a8/STANZA-INSTA-TWILIGHT-OF-THE-GODS.jpg Events - PRE-LAUNCH: Twilight of the Gods - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d03eff47-4029-4f53-a5fb-480eab6e1db5/9781960451026.jpg Events - PRE-LAUNCH: Twilight of the Gods - Make it stand out This is not your comic book trickster. Kurt Baumeister's Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin's many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity's champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b8fea57a-2049-4fbd-8732-41d8138127cd/Fotor_2023-1-13_10_26_11.jpg Events - PRE-LAUNCH: Twilight of the Gods - Kurt Baumeister Kurt Baumeister's writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Twilight of the Gods is his second novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cb2c3859-18fd-4681-974a-584f45d661c0/jackie-corley.jpg Events - PRE-LAUNCH: Twilight of the Gods - Jackie Corley In past lives, Jackie Corley was a reporter, a drone operator, and the publisher of Word Riot. In the current one, she's VP of Content for a radio company. Corley received an MFA from the Bennington College. Her fiction has appeared in BULL, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Redivider and Fourteen Hills, among others. She lives in the Hudson Valley but will always be a Jersey girl at heart. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/347b9861-0c32-41b9-993d-d94faa8149bd/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOKCLUB-FEB-25.jpg Events - Horror book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1737651245563-ZPQ0CH2HXFSYXTN2G8FM/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-FEB-25.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/66145406-d3c8-499a-8f9f-54f7a1537afc/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-FEB-2025.jpg Events - Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7b418df7-6749-4d50-a143-527c6f04b3e2/STANZA-INSTA-fantasy-feb-25.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1736535447459-2M403V66VSTVNKOZV8DT/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-BOOKCLUB-LIT-FEB-25.jpg Events - Literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lets-talk-monsters monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1736521705017-LCOBWYHDWMKM4DXMSJ0R/STANZA-INSTA-MAHONEY-OTTONE.jpg Events - LET’S TALK MONSTERS - An evening with Dennis Mahoney & Robert Ottone - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cd80c273-b8c1-4a58-818a-5c16b36ed651/COVER_Our+Winter+Monster_Dennis+Mahoney.jpg Events - LET’S TALK MONSTERS - An evening with Dennis Mahoney & Robert Ottone - OUR WINTER MONSTER For the last year, Holly and Brian have been out of sync. Neither can forget what happened that one winter evening; neither can forgive what's happened since. Tonight, Holly and Brian race toward Pinebuck, New York, trying to outrun a blizzard on their way to the ski village getaway they hope will save their relationship. But soon they lose control of the car--and then of themselves. Now Sheriff Kendra Book is getting calls about a couple in trouble--along with reports of a brutal and mysterious creature rampaging through town, leaving a trail of crushed cars, wrecked buildings, and mangled bodies in the snow. To Kendra, who lost another couple to the snow just seven weeks ago, the danger feels personal. But not as personal as it feels to Holly and Brian, who are starting to see the past, the present, and themselves in a monstrous new light. Mahoney's exhilarating story moves like an avalanche, but its desperate characters, claustrophobic setting, and shocking displays of gore will stay with you long after the snow has melted. Our Winter Monster captures the horrifying moments that test if we're strong enough to weather the worst--and asks who we might survive the storm with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d1571c0c-efdc-4a1d-a735-3e9957d094b2/Dennis+Mahoney_credit+SarahNicole+Mahoney.jpg Events - LET’S TALK MONSTERS - An evening with Dennis Mahoney & Robert Ottone - Dennis Mahoney Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut; Bell Weather, an Indie Next pick; Ghostlove; and My Heart Is Full of Blood. He lives in Troy, NY, with his wife, son, and dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5e32a8d9-f935-445f-b221-46100048941d/IMG_8165.jpeg Events - LET’S TALK MONSTERS - An evening with Dennis Mahoney & Robert Ottone - NOCTURNAL CREATURES What lurks in the Dunderberg Mountains? Teenager Cassie, growing up on her family’s apple and peach orchard in upstate New York, was the first to see one of the terrifying, strange creatures from the woods around their property. Cassie’s crush, El Salvadorian Darwin, thinks it’s a Sisimito, a Central American creature of lore akin to the Sasquatch. Then, the family sees more of the frightening beasts, and it’s not long before the creatures take aggressive action toward Cassie’s family. That launches a life-and-death battle that could have devastating consequences ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d28f4121-25c7-4886-b9a8-eec0a7423159/IMG_3521.jpg Events - LET’S TALK MONSTERS - An evening with Dennis Mahoney & Robert Ottone - Robert P. Ottone Robert P. Ottone is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Triangle and is also the best-selling author of Curse of the Cob Man, The Sleepy Hollow Gang, The Vile Thing We Created and Nocturnal Creatures. His short fiction has been collected in Wrapped in Plastic and Other Sweet Nothings as well as Her Infernal Name & Other Nightmares. He holds two master’s degrees in Education, as well as an MFA in Children’s Literature. Robert is also a true crime lecturer for various universities, libraries and groups. A bagel-loving fabulist of spooky absurdity, Ottone enjoys cigars, cocktails and time with his wife. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/caroline-hagood-lisa-marie-basile monthly 0.5 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1736268365680-XWN7F6B46BDA8DFVG2QP/STANZA-INSTA-HAGOOD-BASILE.jpg Events - Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fa9f3055-36c7-4846-9e05-cfe95d2b3c21/hagood.png Events - Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile - Death and Other Speculative Fictions Caroline Hagood takes the reader on a wild ride, using surreal stories to process the recent death of her father. She mourns by making language work as a time machine to go back and let her father live again, bending space and time to make a place for him, if only in this book that is, above all, a séance. Death and Other Speculative Fictions is for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one and searching everywhere for answers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0996b0e9-46cf-4300-ab6e-5277b9a00177/Caroline+Hagood+Headshot.jpg Events - Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile - Caroline Hagood Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. She is the author of two poetry books; the essay collections, Ways of Looking at a Woman and Weird Girls; and the novels, Ghosts of America and Filthy Creation. Her book Death and Other Speculative Fictions has just come out from Spuyten Duyvil press and her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in Fall 2025. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/61b2ba6a-fac6-4e18-87e7-c0db73e0e3ee/front%2Bbook%2Bcover%2Bmockup.png Events - Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile - saint of saint of is a gilded exploration of hunger—the hunger for the erotic, the ancestral, the forbidden, divinity, and hope. With themes of grief, illness, and generational trauma woven alongside sensuality and beauty, this collection is both sacrament and defiance. It traces the contours of longing, ruin, and transformation, blurring the boundaries between the carnal and the celestial. These poems are not only an invocation of saints—they are a declaration of self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/42165843-db48-4f43-ace7-3c8f70324947/Screenshot+2024-05-01+at+9.11.34%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Events - Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile - Lisa Marie Basile Lisa Marie Basile is the author of a few books of nonfiction and poetry, including Light Magic for Dark Times, Andalucia, and Nympholepsy, among others. Her work can be found in The New York Times, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Small Fictions, Narratively, and more. Lisa Marie earned an MFA from The New School, and she's led workshops or spoken at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, and Pace University. She is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine. Her work explores trauma, darkness, ritual, the body and chronic illness, Mediterranean ancestry, foster care, and place. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sam-clay-dual-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d78e6cf2-d95e-410a-b524-78521ab9fc28/STANZA-INSTA-CLAY-SAM.jpg Events - Sam Rebelein + Clay McLeod Chapman - dual book launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-feb-25 monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8e4da43c-a6fe-4a47-b020-daf6b9448c05/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-3.jpg Events - In Comparison Book Club - Grendel + Autobiography of Red - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a8aa872c-7529-4da2-a8c9-f12153d042fd/IMG_0316.jpg Events - In Comparison Book Club - Grendel + Autobiography of Red - Caroline Eisner Caroline will be on hand to to moderate what will surely be a heady and lively discussion. Limited seats to allow for the best experience! Caroline Eisner has lived in many places, but Beacon is currently her favorite. In one of her past lives, Caroline taught British literature and writing. These days, her preferred job is working with academic authors who want to express themselves and their work more clearly and concisely. And, luckily, because she works from home, every day is bring your dog to work day. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/a-gorgeous-excitement monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d8907c78-f3a3-4ecc-ac62-2bd48f2e4950/STANZA-INSTA-A-GORGEOUS-EXCITEMENT.jpg Events - A Gorgeous Excitement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-jan-25 monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e2a0264f-d585-42c8-a51e-dc086dab2d24/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-JAN.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jan-mystery-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/95e54f4a-bd15-410c-9395-27b8fa965aac/STANZA-INSTA-MYSTERY-JAN-2025.jpg Events - Jan Mystery book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/serviceberry-book-discussion monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/28af8ff8-5c4e-4c2c-b749-07dffa08d909/STANZA-INSTA-SERVICEBERRY-DISCUSSION.jpg Events - Gather & Grow book discussion - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jan-horror-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/09cb603a-208c-4b40-b3cb-a39dd7de01c7/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-JAN-2025.jpg Events - Jan HORROR book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/thanksgiving-day monthly 0.5 2024-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7df4e8a1-a4a7-4a2d-b983-9cd8d4611cd0/STANZA-INSTA-T-DAY.jpg Events - Thanksgiving day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-jan-2025 monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1734537661292-9NVTLKZNIWNAAGCRGECF/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-JAN-2025.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club December - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jan-lit-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d6429b79-314c-4b79-9779-7be418ca7067/STANZA-INSTA-LIT+BOOKCLUB+JAN.jpg Events - Jan Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-dec-24 monthly 0.5 2024-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/21591b14-95a1-45ba-909a-65817a262eb9/STANZA-INSTA-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-DEC.jpg Events - Fantasy Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/in-comparison-dec monthly 0.5 2024-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/17811029-66ab-4559-adc3-1f07bb713465/STANZA-INSTA-IN-COMPARISON-DEC.jpg Events - In Comparison Book Club - Lolly Willowes + Sula - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a8aa872c-7529-4da2-a8c9-f12153d042fd/IMG_0316.jpg Events - In Comparison Book Club - Lolly Willowes + Sula - Caroline Eisner Caroline will be on hand to to moderate what will surely be a heady and lively discussion. Limited seats to allow for the best experience! Caroline Eisner has lived in many places, but Beacon is currently her favorite. In one of her past lives, Caroline taught British literature and writing. These days, her preferred job is working with academic authors who want to express themselves and their work more clearly and concisely. And, luckily, because she works from home, every day is bring your dog to work day. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/december-lit-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1934ec2b-b16a-4390-a0da-dcb4226295a9/465936264_122218359098026398_4057921240811616914_n.jpg Events - December Lit Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/november-horror-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d515f9e0-991b-4b0e-82e0-4bc5e542e616/9781640096622.jpg Events - November Horror Book Club - The Bog Wife This looks like another title that may entice you, even if you’re not into horror. Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a "bog-wife." https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/nirala monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a6bcfd6b-a28d-4cda-bc17-4f0a5c6a7960/Yuyutsu+Sharma+Photocredit++Kantipur+Daily.jpg Events - Stanza + LiveWriting present Nirala Writers - Yuyutsu Sharma Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy” (The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Michael Graves, Brand Called You), Punjab-born, Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage. He is also recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, The Alchemy of Nine Smile: Nine Longer Poems and Lost Horoscope, Yuyu has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation worldwide. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts creative writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Yuyutsu curated Himalayan Literature Festival 2024 in collaboration with New York Writers Workshop in Kathmandu. He edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing. More: www.yuyutsusharma.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/56a4dc2c-b781-4dd7-947c-239df390a467/Tomlinson+HEADSHOT+7+copy+2.jpg Events - Stanza + LiveWriting present Nirala Writers - Tim Tomlinson Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You, and, most recently, Listening to Fish: Meditations from the Wet World, a hybrid collection of poetry and prose. Recent work appears in The Bangalore Literary Magazine, EKL Review, Flash Boulevard, and Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing. Tim is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ce04f4e7-f6f8-45c4-8228-7bf1d12d6e16/ruth.jpg Events - Stanza + LiveWriting present Nirala Writers - Ruth Danon Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in 2023. Her prose and poetry have appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, most recently in Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Sunday Salon Zine, The Nu Review, and The CAPS 25 th Anniversary Anthology. Her work is forthcoming in On the Seawall, The Beltway Quarterly, and the Poetry is Bread Anthology. For 23 years she taught in the Creative and Expository Writing Programs she directed for NYU’s School of Professional Studies. Founder of Live Writing: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, she teaches for Live Writing and New York Writers Workshop. She lives in Beacon, NY, where she curates literary events. She was one of the founding curators of the BeaconLitfest@the Howland. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/gather-and-grow monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c9cc9a21-107a-4ffe-9b46-01e7da9aa1d3/9781668072240.jpeg Events - Gather and Grow - The Serviceberry Join us for a two-part event celebrating the release of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book, The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance. Come out to Stanza November 20th to buy your copy, meet other people interested in the book, and discuss the concept of gift economies. For this first meeting, we will use an essay written by Kimmerer in 2022 as an introduction to the book and jumping off point for discussing these ideas. After everyone has had a chance to read the book, we will come together again in January for a full discussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/dde44e11-2da1-4f15-be7a-22f64b387a7c/Christina+Noyes.jpg Events - Gather and Grow - Christina Noyes They will be facilitated by Christina Noyes of Gather & Grow and Daydream Collaborative. Christina is an experienced educator and facilitator of both youth and adults, so bring the whole family. We just ask that everyone who attends has engaged with the material and is ready to take part in the discussion. Christina is an educator, organizer and herbalist living in Wappingers Falls, NY. Christina runs Gather & Grow, a community initiative focused on social justice herbalism education for youth and adults. Before starting Gather & Grow, they worked as an elementary classroom teacher and curriculum writer. They are passionate about working in community to abandon logics, practices and structures of punishment and extraction, collaborating to bring about alternatives rooted in justice, reciprocity, and care. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-nov-24 monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/55abc8ad-34df-46af-ba3b-52cdb0ba49a4/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-NOVEMBER-24.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-public-reading monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1729095482561-SYNMXGRV97ORV1YZXZ00/STANZA-INSTA-FICTION-WORKSHOP-READING.jpg Events - Fiction Workshop public reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-nov-24 monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/27d20e1a-b241-4da1-ba1c-235b40ea9dbd/STANZA-INSTA-NINETH-HOUSE.jpg Events - Stanza fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/olaf-and-essex monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b1556ea8-ac5d-41b4-933c-ba1fefc323c1/STANZA-INSTA-OLF-ESSEX.jpg Events - Olaf and Essex - author reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/literature-book-club-november monthly 0.5 2024-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6e1f2933-4cdb-4150-8c5a-7e86d0d030b3/STANZA-INSTA-BOOKCLUB-LIT-NOVEMBER.jpg Events - Literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-oct-24 monthly 0.5 2024-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/71c469eb-d0ab-40f9-95da-874fb19ae54f/STANZA-HORROR-BOOK-CLUB-OCTOBER.jpg Events - Horror book club - NECROLOGY “This book is beautiful. A feminist tale that imagines witches directly connected to the Earth, so much so, they are called ‘Dirty.’ Through a long-ago pact with the ‘blackcoats’ - religious men - women gave up their magic in exchange for remaining unharassed. Hundreds of years later, one woman, Whitetail, sprouts horns and exhibits strange and terrifying behavior. Is it her, or is it her absorbed twin who sometimes possesses her and spits generations of pent-up rage through her mouth? When Whitetail thwarts an attempted rape with help of a cast-iron skillet, the offender drops dead. Was it the bang on the head she gave him, or the curse her daughter shouted as he stumbled out the door? Rich mythology, harrowing scenes, and genuinely terrifying moments make this a perfect novel for witchy season. Come to this event, meet Meg, hear a great conversation with fellow author Meghan Arcuri, and let’s kick off SPOOKY SEASON right.” -Mark https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0606d3ed-8b81-407b-85e6-ffd80de21b4d/STANZA-INSTA-SCI-FI-OCT.png Events - SCI-FI BOOK CLUB - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-oct-24 monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f7e39b44-170a-47f7-9b49-888ece302a67/9781250881205.jpeg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-staged-reading monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1726497665476-3K24U1GJI3D2PD5QORST/STANZA-INSTA-PLAYWRITING-WORKSHOP.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop staged reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/compare monthly 0.5 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/be54b85f-474a-4d38-8ee8-d13c3389cdb9/STANZA-INSTA-SITE-ASSET.jpg Events - In Comparison book club - The Member of the Wedding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a8aa872c-7529-4da2-a8c9-f12153d042fd/IMG_0316.jpg Events - In Comparison book club - Caroline Eisner Caroline Eisner has lived in many places, but Beacon is currently her favorite. In one of her past lives, Caroline taught British literature and writing. These days, her preferred job is working with academic authors who want to express themselves and their work more clearly and concisely. And, luckily, because she works from home, every day is bring your dog to work day. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/literature-book-club-oct-24 monthly 0.5 2024-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f77e3ce1-910f-49a8-bce0-b712a6bf0e91/LIT+BOOK+CLUB+OCT.jpg Events - Literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-sept monthly 0.5 2024-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/bd5c2bf4-5a56-41da-8acf-e5dc824f2717/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-HORROR-SEPT.jpg Events - Horror book club - Sept - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-sept monthly 0.5 2024-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b6ee5451-cddc-4f35-a0a1-79b50b1ee4bb/FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-SEPT.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-sept monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/09c849b7-aae6-4742-9b69-4febb45d3a1a/BOOKCLUB-SCI-FI-SEPT.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club - Sept - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/dan-poblocki-scary-storytime monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1724592093208-JVNE0V690A88Q7E3USM6/OCT-INSTA-DAN-POBLOCKI.jpg Events - Dan Poblocki - scary storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-sept-24 monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d1d1325d-6d3b-4959-a944-58a234887480/9780593469316.jpg Events - Literature book club - CHAIN GANG ALL-STARS A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews "Like Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Adjei-Brenyah's book presents a dystopian vision so...illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we're capable of doing." --The Washington Post She felt their eyes, all those executioners... Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are com­peting for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death matches before packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thur­war and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, Thurwar considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games. But CAPE's corporate own­ers will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors, to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alli­ance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a "new and necessary American voice" (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review). https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-cirque-du-creep monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/58f64913-15b6-470b-b5ff-e3985765aabf/450252616_7252629841505383_2296888158670834659_n.jpg Events - Stanza @ Cirque Du Creep - Stanza @ Cirque Du Creep We’ll be on hand with a selection of esoterica, astrology, tarot, occult, horror, and fantasy books from a wide array of presses. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/spooky-season-oct-12 monthly 0.5 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1726070907405-P6JCC6JGGB4DA01ANY3M/STANZA-INSTA-OCT-12-WHERE-THE-SILENT-ONES.jpg Events - A celebration of horror - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7eb272be-42f2-4c64-a6ca-d418504a9c38/Silent+Ones+cover+-+proof+1+front.jpg Events - A celebration of horror - Where the Silent Ones Watch William Hope Hodgson’s writing life spanned fourteen years,during which he published novels and stories of the adventurous, the fantastic, and the horrific. Best known, perhaps, for his novel The House on the Borderland, Hodgson wrote several other landmark weird works, including The Boats of the “Glen Carrig,” The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land, as well as dozens of short stories. He explored places in the ocean where realities overlapped, described the horrors of a house built beside a gap between dimensions, and transported readers to a desolate future, where abhuman monstrosities prowl. He displayed imaginative visions of staggering scope unlike any others in literature. In this anthology, twenty-seven authors and poets visit Hodgson’s worlds and concepts to dig deep into his mythologies and delve into fresh mysteries in unexpected times, locations, and interpretations. Whether or not you’ve read Hodgson’s works, these visions of Hodgsonian horror will lead you into strange, liminal, and frightening new landscapes of the weird and fantastic. Authors include: Linda D. Addison • David Agranoff • Meghan Arcuri • Sal Ciano • Michael Cisco • L.E. Daniels • Andy Davidson • Aaron Dries • Patrick Freivald • Teel James Glenn • Maxwell Ian Gold • Nancy Holder • Todd Keisling • John Langan • Adrian Ludens • Lee Murray • Lisa Morton • Peter Rawlik • Sam Rebelein • Ann K. Schwader • Steve Rasnic Tem • Tim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/aa6ae187-29d7-492b-8156-7fc8cc03c98b/9781804179376.jpeg Events - A celebration of horror - Discontinue if Death Ensues: Tales From the Tipping Point Edited by Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska Authors: Carol Gyzander, Lee Murray, Cindy O'Quinn, Anna Taborska, Kyla Lee Ward The five authors were fellow nominees for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Short Story in 2021--the first time in HWA history that all the nominees in a category were women! They became friends during the process and discovered they shared a similar approach to writing women's stories. The authors, from countries all around the world, decided to write an anthology of stories revealing what happens when the abuse of the environment and of women reaches a tipping point: changes and mutations occur, with a subtle shift in the power dynamic. Fifteen horror stories and five poems about women and written by women. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mystery-book-club-with-julia-dahl monthly 0.5 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8a326b1d-a45c-4cd6-a0db-6d958603bf46/9781250865977.jpg Events - Mystery book club with Julia Dahl - I Dreamed of Falling In acclaimed author Julia Dahl's new standalone, the death of a young mother triggers an avalanche of secrets in a small Hudson Valley town. Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town - a town so small that every store opening and DUI is considered newsworthy. But when Roman's longtime girlfriend, Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realizes he had no idea what was really going on in her life. And when he starts asking questions, he's not prepared for the answers. What was Ashley doing at the cliffside home of her troubled ex-girlfriend? How did no one in a house full of people see what happened to her? And why does it seem like everyone in town suddenly has something to hide? As Roman and his mother dig into Ashley's last few months, the truths they uncover threaten to expose painful secrets. The kind of secrets that can get you killed. A gripping thriller and a moving portrait of a family struggling through tragedy,I Dreamed of Fallingshowcases Julia Dahl's talent for using crime fiction to tell an immersive and unforgettable story. Dahl's unflinching novel asks hard questions about love, regret, inequality, and the possibilities and the perils of forgiveness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/89ba3cfe-d99c-4263-a6e6-eed01c4aec33/Julia_Dahl--scaled.jpg Events - Mystery book club with Julia Dahl - Julia Dahl About Julia: Julia Dahl is the author of The Missing Hours, Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe's Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-lit-lit monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/95171bd2-a46e-429d-aca6-8c1031bdb92e/9798988721369.jpg Events - Stanza @ Lit Lit - SMALL WONDER Tina, a 30-year-old preschool teacher, sees her life slipping by. She is the mother of ten-year-old Matty, the product of an unexpected adventure on a European train. But he's a great kid, and she's a wonderful mother, if more than a bit economically challenged. This is especially true for a resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a granola-fancy neighborhood of multi-million-dollar brownstones and Prada-toting, vaccine-hesitant moms. Every day she takes her run with her dog, goes to work, looks after her friend/neighbor/landlady's girl, has a few glasses of wine, and, well, that's about it. Enter Patrick, new to town from Boulder, Colorado. He is the father of Jonah, a new boy in Tina's preschool class, as well as Darla, who coincidentally is in the same class as Tina's son. Patrick and the kids moved hoping to get a fresh start after Patrick's wife's tragic death in a fall from a cliff during a family camping trip. But starting over is not so easy, and the aftershocks of that catastrophe have followed the children to their new home. The kids begin to act out, and Tina finds herself defending their increasingly bad behavior. After all, as far as Tina can tell, poor Patrick seems to be doing his best. Meanwhile, both Tina's housing situation and her job are hanging by a thread, and change may be coming whether she's ready for it or not. The Park Slope moms want Tina to go to law school, since teaching preschool looks to them like a dead-end job. Tina doesn't know what she wants. The kids become (sort-of) friends, and that means Tina spending time with Patrick. She finds him to be an attractive man who endears himself to nearly everyone he meets, and soon it becomes clear that he is both available and interested. Maybe something will work out there for Tina-a big, happy blended family, perhaps? That is, if she ignores the sea of waving red flags... Small Wonder is a portrait of a woman finding humor and joy in an age of anxiety. Underneath the day-to-day, a question is always stirring: in this troubled and imperiled world, how do you raise a child as a single parent, keep a roof over your heads, and have your own life? Should she take a chance-for both her and her son-on a man she doesn't really know? https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/michael-schein-corey-mead monthly 0.5 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1724268735641-URGRLI6ZLG36JB8EKHPS/POWER-PERCEPTION-POLITICS.jpg Events - Power and Perception in Politics - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b146cc7a-6437-43b7-9686-672d087c0d60/Schein+headshot+1+%281%29.jpg Events - Power and Perception in Politics - Michael F. Schein Michael F. Schein is the author of The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets From the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers. (McGraw Hill) He is also the founder of MicroFame Media, a company that specializes in making idea-based businesses famous. Some of his clients have included eBay, Magento, University of Pennsylvania, University of California Irvine, Lockton, United Methodist Publishing House, Kasha, Lockton, PopUp, LinkedIn, and Citrix. His articles have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Inc., Psychology Today, and Huffington Post. He has ghostwritten business books for Fortune 100 executives and founders of billion dollar businesses, and he is a speaker for international audiences spanning from the northeastern United States to the southeastern coast of China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5aca63e3-d885-44ab-8049-ec3863ee4f38/9781260470130.jpg Events - Power and Perception in Politics - The Hype Handbook Master the art and science of using shameless propaganda for personal and social good. Influencers have always deployed the power of hype to get what they want. But never in history have people been so susceptible to propaganda and persuasion as they are now. Hype truly runs our world. Imagine if you could generate and leverage hype for positive purposes--like legitimate business success, helping people, or effecting positive change in your community. Michael F. Schein teaches you how. In The Hype Handbook, the notorious marketing guru provides 12 fundamental strategies for creating and leveraging hype for good, including ways to: Attract attention from people that matter Create a community of acolytes to further your cause Create an atmosphere of curiosity and intrigue Sell your message with the skill of a master Create a step-by-step "manifesto" Citing the latest research in psychology, sociology and neuroscience, Schein breaks the concept of hype down into a simple set of strategies, skills, and techniques--and illustrates his methods through stories of the world's most effective hype artists, including American propagandist Edward Bernays, Alice Cooper manager Shep Gordon, celebrity preacher Aimee Semple McPherson, Spartan Race founder Joe De Sena, and digital guru Gary Vaynerchuk. Whatever your temperament, education, budget, background, or natural ability, The Hype Handbook delivers everything you need to apply the most powerful tools of persuasion for personal and business success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9aa7f2aa-abb8-4835-96db-4328344fd62e/Mead_author_photo.jpg Events - Power and Perception in Politics - Corey Mead Corey Mead is the author of the nonfiction books The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2024); The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation’s Golden Couple (Flatiron, 2018); and Angelic Music: The Curious Story of Benjamin Franklin’s Favorite Invention (Simon & Schuster, 2016); and War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013; HarperCollins, Library Edition, 2024). These books have received coverage and praise in such publications as The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Foreign Policy, Wired, The Times of London, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sunday Express, and The Daily Telegraph. Several of Mead’s articles are currently in development for film and television. Mead has also made dozens radio, television, and documentary appearances in the U.S. and worldwide (with NPR being a particular specialty), and delivered numerous invited lectures and presentations around the country. He is an Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he teaches a wide range of nonfiction writing courses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/22647c1e-d92e-4154-badf-0089baeb7daa/The+Hidden+History+of+the+White+House.jpg Events - Power and Perception in Politics - The Hidden History of the White House Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happened For more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic moments in American history. Its walls and portraits have witnessed fierce power struggles, history-altering decisions, shocking scandals, and intimate moments among the First Family, their guests, and the staff. In the signature style of the popular American History Tellers podcast, The Hidden History of the White House places readers in the shoes of historical figures—from power brokers to everyday Americans alike—who lived through pivotal events that shaped America. As a fly on the wall of history, you’ll find yourself immersed in: Andrew Jackson’s disastrous 1829 inauguration, when a mob overran and trashed the White House. Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, which led to his wife Edith serving as shadow president during the final months of his administration. President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s clandestine journey to Washington to dodge an assassination plot on the eve of the Civil War. Winston Churchill’s wartime sojourn at the White House, during which he and FDR developed plans to defeat Germany. Barack Obama’s decision to green-light the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Equal parts social, political, and cultural history—written and presented in the accessible and engaging style for which American History Tellers is famous—The Hidden History of the White House offers readers a rare opportunity to live within the halls of the Executive Mansion, and explore some of the extraordinary people and events that made America what it is today. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/wqp18dvs5ai30n8gv41c8uyjp9vjh5 monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fc198f0b-3a19-48bc-8f80-9ac8f029db97/9781728283517.jpg Events - Storytime, special guest: Andrew Larson - Gifts from the Garbage Truck A picture book about what we throw away, and why it might be worth keeping! What if everywhere you looked, you saw something to make? Instead of seeing something broken, you saw something to fix? Instead of seeing something to throw out, you saw something to give away? This is how Nelson Molina sees the world. A former employee for the New York City sanitation department, Nelson saved over 45,000 objects from the garbage to fix and show his community through his museum, Treasures in the Trash. Explore the hidden potential in what we often discard and think differently about consumption, waste, and the impact of small actions. With themes of upcycling, anti-consumerism, love for community, and finding joy, Gifts from the Garbage Truck inspires kids to think creatively and curiously about what they do (and don't) throw away! Often, Nelson came across oddly shaped garbage bags. They clinked and clanked and jingled and jangled. Is there something more than garbage in here? Nelson would wonder. Is there something someone might love? "I knew it!" he'd exclaim, tearing the bag open and discovering a new gift from the trash. Nelson didn't throw the objects into the back of the truck with everything else. He had a better idea. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/pumpkin-spice-and-everything-nice monthly 0.5 2024-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1724597810033-COZMRN0XB8VAMFGDWKC2/OCT-INSTA-KATIE.jpg Events - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/64f01957-196d-49ea-93f9-f0ba8e93e017/Pumpkin-Spice-by-Katie-Cicatelli.jpg Events - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - LUCY KANE HATES PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES. Which is a problem because a) lucy lives in the quaint New England town of Briar Glen where everyone loves all things autumn, and b) she’s a barista at her mom’s coffee shop, Cup o’ Jo. As the first fall leaves descend upon Briar Glen, Lucy and her mom gear up for a busy season… But then Java Junction, a multinational coffee chain, opens a store literally across the street. Home of the world-famous pumpkin spice latte. To make matters worse, it turns out that Jack Harper, the new kid in school and Lucy’s secret crush, is the son of the owners. Talk about mixing business with pleasure. If Cup o’ Jo wants to survive the competition, from Java Junction, Lucy will have to set aside her feelings for the popular drink-and Jack!-to make this the coziest pumpkin spice season ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e7e0ff77-dbf7-4f78-9f09-f51b153f47f1/katie.png Events - Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - Katie Cicatelli-Kuc She’s the author of Rainy Day: A Peppa Pig story (Scholastic, 2023), Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story (Scholastic, 2021), Quarantine: A Love Story (Scholastic, 2019), and two Thomas and Friends Step into Reading books: A Ghost on the Track (Random House, 2015) and The Rocket Returns (Random House, 2014). Most recently, Katie's work has appeared in Memorial Sloan Kettering's Visible Ink anthology. Her new book, Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice is due out August 6, 2024 and is available for pre-order. To learn of upcoming book events, follow Katie on Instagram. Katie spent over a decade working for children’s books publishers as an in-house copy editor and production editor before becoming a full-time writer. She writes books for young children and teens, and short stories and essays for adults. Born in the Midwest and raised in the Midwest and Florida, Katie now lives in a yellow house next to a mountain in the Hudson Valley with her family and their animals. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stories-are-weapons-propaganda-discussion monthly 0.5 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/611c3be9-48e8-4ff3-b80b-a1c4419c3a40/9780393881516.jpeg Events - Stories are Weapons propaganda discussion - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-aug-24 monthly 0.5 2024-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8f57452c-aad5-4d4f-83ef-6ab99326b88d/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-HORROR-BOOKCLUB-AUGUST.jpg Events - Horror book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/claribel-ortega-witchlings-3-celebration monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/d5f0b933-0e25-4fa7-983b-ea1d2be41279/INSTA-CLARIBEL-HOWLAND.jpg Events - Claribel Ortega - Witchlings 3 Celebration - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/97eae5df-f4ff-4fc2-8c13-bb853fff351b/HOUSE+OF+ELEPHANTS+hi+res.jpg Events - Claribel Ortega - Witchlings 3 Celebration - WITCHLINGS HOUSE OF ELEPHANTS From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: The third book in the spellbinding Witchlings series! It's been months since the end of the Golden Frog Games, and a cure for the hex that turned young witches to stone still hasn't been found. Seven and Thorn want nothing more than to find a way to heal their friends, but everything they try ends in failure. When the Black Moon Ceremony arrives earlier than expected, Seven and Thorn take it as a chance to welcome any new Spares into their coven. But rather than welcoming a few Spares like they thought, all the witchlings in the ceremony are chosen to enter the Spare coven! The new Spares are met with anger from the Hill Society. They create more unfair laws that ban Spares from using magic and being equals in Twelve Towns society! On top of all that, Spares start disappearing. And no one seems to care. As Seven and Thorn struggle to find a cure for the stone hex and to stop the Twelve Town’s unfair treatment of Spares once and for all, they discover a piece of hidden history that will change everything—if they can get anyone to listen to them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ce564e28-bffc-4977-bf0d-f799fc8358da/Claribel+Ortega+hi+res+2023.jpg Events - Claribel Ortega - Witchlings 3 Celebration - Claribel A. Ortega New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Squad and the Witchlings series, and Pura Belpre and Eisner Award-winning author of the graphic novel Frizzy, is a former reporter who writes middle grade and young adult fantasy inspired by her Dominican heritage. When she's not busy turning her obsession with eighties pop culture, magic, and video games into books, she's co-hosting her podcast Bad Author Book Club and coaching authors on how to navigate publishing. Claribel has been featured on BuzzFeed, NPR, Good Morning America, and Deadline. You can find her on social media at @Claribel_Ortega and on her website at claribelortega.com. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fears-ellen-datlow-and-guests monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1725389576660-3SN1DIQ50PQ0BY3HWK6P/OCT-INSTA-OCT-6.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fcd8e355-0def-4bae-af0b-616b99388b44/FearsWebsite_revised.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Make it stand out Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fefe3226-343c-43aa-81ee-25c5941281a0/datlow.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over four decades. She was Fiction Editor of OMNI Magazine for seventeen years, then Editor of SCIFICTION, the fiction arm of the SCIFI Channel’s website for six years. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and its horror imprint, Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror, Screams From the Dark: 19 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Christmas and Other Horrors, and Fears: An Anthology of Psychological Horror. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards plus the Splatterpunk Award, and in 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre" and was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention. The Shirley Jackson Awards, Inc. recently presented her with a special award in recognition of the anthology When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books, 2021). She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the east village, NYC, with Matthew Kressel. She can be found on the website Datlow.com, and on twitter and facebook (google her). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/30d1ee35-4786-4dab-af6f-9498d4026320/barron%5B1%5D.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Laird Barron Laird Barron spent his early years in Alaska. He is the author of several books, including The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All; The Wind Began to Howl; and Not a Speck of Light (Stories). His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Rondout Valley writing stories about the evil that men do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e3be034b-a02e-4f3a-b052-101df545a80c/Theresa.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Theresa DeLucci Theresa DeLucci's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Weird Horror. Her short story "Only My Skin That Crawled Away" received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Horror Vol. 14. She also loves talking film, TV, and video games for Wired.com's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast, Den of Geek, and Tor.com. She lives in Queens, New York. Find her at theresadelucci.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cf2f9946-f627-492f-b386-e67d1b238f53/MacLeod+Author+Photo+%28headshot%29.jpg Events - Fears - Ellen Datlow and guests - Bracken MacLeod Bracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, is the author of the novels, MOUNTAIN HOME, STRANDED, COME TO DUST, and CLOSING COSTS (available in hardcover, paperback coming 9/20 from William Morrow). His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in WHITE KNIGHT AND OTHER PAWNS and 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS, which the New York Times Book Review called, "Superb." Before devoting himself to full time writing, he worked as a civil and criminal litigator, a university philosophy instructor, and a martial arts teacher. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-august monthly 0.5 2024-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b5c9547a-1634-4b2b-b6a2-d7e8d3558613/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-scci-fi-august-24.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club August - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-5-week-aug-24-fe385-zfg7j-fn4jj-87tp5 monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6304651-f336-4e52-95c7-2dc74d4505ee/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-5-week-fiction-workshop.jpg Events - 5 week fiction workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-5-week-aug-24-fe385-zfg7j-fn4jj monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6304651-f336-4e52-95c7-2dc74d4505ee/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-5-week-fiction-workshop.jpg Events - 5 week fiction workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-5-week-aug-24-fe385-zfg7j monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6304651-f336-4e52-95c7-2dc74d4505ee/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-5-week-fiction-workshop.jpg Events - 5 week fiction workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-5-week-aug-24-fe385 monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6304651-f336-4e52-95c7-2dc74d4505ee/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-5-week-fiction-workshop.jpg Events - 5 week fiction workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-99s3d-rwy5z-z934b-6rkzh-9mt9l monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-99s3d-rwy5z-z934b-6rkzh monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-99s3d-rwy5z-z934b monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-99s3d-rwy5z monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop-99s3d monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/necrology-meg-ripley monthly 0.5 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1726079812124-EYQYOK3AJ6LYQA861FVO/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-NECROLOGY.jpg Events - NECROLOGY - Meg Ripley - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3c82f5a8-6539-4815-9bac-a8c344811998/NECROLOGY+COVER.jpg Events - NECROLOGY - Meg Ripley - NECROLOGY "It's amazing what the spirit can cope with to preserve the body. My spirit is a mighty oak that just won't fall." In a fantastical aftermath of the Salem witch trials, magical women known as the Dirty have signed a contract swearing off their innate magic in exchange for freedom from violence by non-magical Freemen. Two hundred years later, in a Catskills orphanage, headmistress Whitetail has sprouted antlers-proof of a violated contract. When her wealthy benefactor visits, proposing marriage, her appearance sparks abuse. Rushing to her teacher's defense, eight-year-old Rabbit curses the Beard dead, and Whitetail's arrested on trumped-up charges. As Whitetail awaits her trial and execution, Rabbit is groomed as the Freemen's star witness and learns of the terrifying reality to which they aspire. With her magic at stake and a loose tooth in her mouth, Rabbit has little left to lose. And a revolution to gain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/dab0622e-855c-4e53-84f8-f395d061edfc/MRipley+%282%29.jpg Events - NECROLOGY - Meg Ripley - MEG RIPLEY Meg Ripley is a drawer, designer, and writer of horror and dark fiction. Born in Ontario and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, surrounded by whales and icebergs, she holds a BFA from the University of Western Ontario, and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts, NYC, in Illustration as Visual Essay. Her work explores family, power dynamics, and monsters (especially the ones we’re related to). When she’s not writing scary stories from her Brooklyn apartment, she’s singing the praises of boredom and the outdoors to her two sons in the Catskills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7855fa20-031e-42e0-993b-a2b78176d240/images.jpg Events - NECROLOGY - Meg Ripley - MEGHAN ARCURI Meghan Arcuri is a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author. Her work can be found in various anthologies, including Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press), Madhouse (Dark Regions Press), Chiral Mad, and Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards). She served as the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association for over four years (summer 2019 – fall 2023) and is the recipient of the 2022 Richard Laymon President’s Award. She recently made her first foray into children’s literature with her non-horror picture book, Milk the Cat (art by Ogmios). Prior to writing, she taught high school math, having earned her B.A. from Colgate University—with a double major in mathematics and English—and her masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley. Please visit her at facebook.com/meg.arcuri, Instagram (@meghanarcurimoran), or on X (@MeghanArcuri). https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/cicadas monthly 0.5 2024-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e45ad731-e73d-445a-930d-63add8aff90d/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-CICADAS.jpg Events - CICADAS - Live reporting from the cicada underworld EDWIN TORRES AND DAVID ROTHENBERG In June 2024, Edwin Torres and David Rothenberg made the trek to central Illinois, Abraham Lincoln country, to experience a once-in-221 year event: the convergence of 17 and 13 year broods of cicadas. On Aug 10 at Stanza, you find out what happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/075b930a-25e6-450d-ae6c-cec2a4aaf567/rothenberg.png Events - CICADAS - David Rothenberg Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg has written Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful, and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than thirty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Nightingales in Berlin is his latest book and film. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5d76b560-7e4c-4eef-84cb-65c2478f21fc/torres.jpg Events - CICADAS - Edwin Torres Edwin Torres is editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press) and many poetry collections, including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, which received a 2022 American Book Award), Xoeteox: the collected word object (Wave Books) and Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press). Multi-disciplinary collaborations with a wide range of cultural nomads have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. A recipient of numerous poetry fellowships, this year he received an Individual Artist's Grant from Arts Mid-Hudson. He currently lives in Beacon, NY. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-aug-24 monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/def65539-2633-4b01-bf6f-af845f34e8f4/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-aug-24.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/literature-book-club-aug-24 monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/761b8e57-28e6-4420-bba3-4b3ac3e1e3ea/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-EXIT-WEST.jpg Events - Literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/currents-in-the-electric-city monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4096eecf-3bb2-4f58-857e-ed1bb13278c9/ScrantonAnthologycover_823x.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Currents in the Electric City In Currents in the Electric City, an installment of Belt’s City Anthologies series, the story of Scranton gets told by the people who know it best. Scranton, PA, is more than just the setting for The Office. It's a living city, one with a rich industrial and labor history, that also has a small-town feel. Who is considered “from Scranton” is fiercely guarded even as the city sees immigration from around the world. Neighborhood talk can reveal your family secrets before you even know them yourself, as Barbara J. Taylor writes. Pieces in this anthology talk about desires to leave, ties that bind, and decisions to stay, as well as impressions from newcomers to the Northeastern Pennsylvania hub. As coeditor Joe Kraus notes in his foreword, Scranton was once a prominent stop on the vaudeville circuit—vaudeville translating literally into “the voice of the city.” The chorus of voices that fill the poems and essays in this anthology tell a complicated story of the Electric city that many have heard of, but few know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/99187281-06e7-423a-945b-a1614f64ae8d/Kraus%2C+Joe+Headshot.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Joe Kraus Joe Kraus is a professor at the University of Scranton in the Department of English & Theatre where he teaches American literature and creative writing. He is the author of The Kosher Capones (Northern Illinois UP, 2019), and his creative work has appeared in The American Scholar, Riverteeth, Under the Sun, and The Baltimore Review among other places. He is a two-time Pushcart nominee, has been long-listed for Best American Essays, and won the 2007 Moment/Karma Foundation International Short Fiction Contest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2e69dc3c-c1fc-4509-a695-8d865d38ea54/brian-fanelli-poet-author-photo1.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Brian Fanelli Brian Fanelli is an Associate Professor of English at Lackawanna College whose creative writing has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Main Street Rag, Louisiana Literature, Blue Collar Review, and elsewhere. His latest book of poems is Waiting for the Dead to Speak (NYQ Books), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Poetry Prize. His writing on genre films has been published in Bright Lights Film Journal, Horror Homeroom, and The Schuylkill Valley Journal. He’s also a regular contributor to 1428Elm.com and HorrorBuzz.com. Brian has an MFA from Wilkes University and a Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a972abad-8152-42bc-ac6d-383928463dc1/andi-2.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Andrea Jade Talarico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3dd2fbaf-ab27-494d-8ca4-2523440ff2fc/Daryl-Fanelli-writer-headshot.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Daryl Fanelli Daryl Fanelli is the author of Synonyms for (OTHER) Bodies (NYQ Books). Her poetry has appeared in Diode, Poet Lore, Harpur Palate, The American Journal of Poetry, Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere. When she’s not writing, Daryl likes to curl up with a good book, teach herself something new, strike a yoga pose, or watch a spooky movie with her husband and cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4905dee5-1aa6-44ed-90cd-c4f65a7d5247/_MANDY_PENNINGTON_0504.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Mandy Pennington Mandy Pennington is a writer, marketer, teacher and actor with a passion for storytelling. She serves as the director of digital strategy at Wilkes University and recently completed her MFA in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is currently querying a coming-of-age memoir set in the decaying movie theater she grew up in. Her solo play adapted from her memoir, Girl Walks Into a Movie Theater, will premiere this summer at Lackawanna College, presented by Scranton Fringe. Her writing can be found in Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology (Belt Publishing), 2022 American Writer’s Review (San Fedele Press), Hippocampus Magazine, Used Car Dealer (yes, really) and Search Engine People. Her first play, My Condolences, premiered at the 2018 Scranton Fringe Festival, where she currently serves as a marketing committee volunteer and active performer. Mandy lives in northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband and two mischievous cats. Learn more: @mandybpenn or mandybpenn.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/da0bdad1-f06b-4c71-a8ab-59ecfcf283da/dawn+leas.jpg Events - Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology - Dawn Leas Dawn Leas is the author A Person Worth Knowing, Take Something When You Go, and I Know When to Keep Quiet. Her poetry has appeared in Antiheroine Chic, New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Literary Mama, SWWIM, and elsewhere. She’s a writing coach, teaching artist, and the assistant director for the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. She’s also a proud back-of-the pack runner, hiker, salt-water lover, and mom of two grown sons. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-5-week-aug-24 monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f6304651-f336-4e52-95c7-2dc74d4505ee/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-5-week-fiction-workshop.jpg Events - 5 week fiction workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-july-24 monthly 0.5 2024-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/57410701-f1b9-45a0-88d6-c77ef8d90a1a/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-HORROR-BOOK-CLUB-JULY.png Events - Horror book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-july monthly 0.5 2024-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6f19ac37-6641-4ac9-8610-57b4058d49dc/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-WOLE-TALABI.jpg Events - Sci-fi book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/july-literature-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/9866d2fd-f82b-4e49-8207-a62c71608bea/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-Ju Events - July literature book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-july monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e88dfa37-1ad5-43bd-9848-3d12d716ea5f/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-FANTASY-JULY.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/playwriting-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7f317421-3cf0-432c-af74-e890196c6292/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PLAYWRITING.jpg Events - Playwriting workshop - Playwriting workshop Once a week, in a safe and supportive haven, a group of experienced and novice playwrights will gather to read and critique their new plays. They will learn the art of providing effective feedback and the importance of revision. In addition, writers will hone their writing and creative skills with exercises and prompts when time permits during the sessions. Length Beginning July 31, 2024, every Wed for six consecutive weeks Time 7:00 PM to 9:00PM One ten minute break Location stanza books 508 Main st. Beacon NY Group size 6 participants Criteria To join the Workshop a candidate must have written at least one of the following: · A complete short or full-length play · A rough first draft of a short or full-length play · A work-in-progress of at least 20 pages for a full-length play or 10 pages of a short play Each week 2-3 writers will bring copies of 10-20 pages of their play and distribute pages to the readers. Readers will read aloud the pages followed by constructive feedback from the group. Public reading At the end of the workshop, Stanza will host a public reading of writers' work in our cozy Beacon bookstore, a great opportunity to hear the work with an audience, and celebrate the achievement. Steven Fechter is a playwright and screenwriter. He cowrote the screenplay for the film The Woodsman (based on his play). The Woodsman play and his other theatrical works have been staged throughout North America and Europe. He taught theatre and film at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and screenwriting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Cost: $250 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/pride-open-mic monthly 0.5 2024-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f7351fe5-edb1-43b1-a9dd-ff9f31f291ed/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-PRIDE.jpg Events - Pride Open Mic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/june-horror-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1718713348530-KA2ORNAV9HSMHWLBMMFT/STANZA-INSTA-JUNE-HORROR-BOOK+CLUB-AUTHOR.jpg Events - June Horror Book Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-june monthly 0.5 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2595db90-a628-47c7-bddd-f6b1ca780518/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-LORDS-UNCREATION.jpg Events - Sci-Fi book club June - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club-june monthly 0.5 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3a4b9652-b1fd-46b4-ab5c-2a0fb80564c8/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-FANTASY-BOOK-CLUB-JUNE.jpg Events - Fantasy book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/writing-the-cosmos-andi-talarico-lisa-marie-basile monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/90e005b3-fe9f-4be4-aac8-f38eba9b5fed/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-WRITING-COSMOS-JUNE-23.jpg Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile - Writing the Cosmos: Gemini Season, Expressing the Authentic Self Astrology, like poetry, is a tool to help guide us to a truth, a personal honesty. Both can show us a lot about ourselves, offer new perspectives and insights, and surprise us by opening up new pathways to self-awareness. In this workshop, we will be working with what lies beyond our control (the cosmos) while using the tools that we can control (our writing.) We will use our natal chart information as well as the current astrological transits to access info about ourselves - new aspects, new ways of seeing - and in turn, write through it. For Gemini season, there will be a particular focus on the expression of self. This workshop begins with a mind-opening and body-calming guided meditation, a brief discussion of astrology (participants will receive information ahead of the workshop), and a poetry reading. Participants will then generate work using several star-tied techniques, such as bibliomancy, tarot, and astrology. We will help you access your natal chart info if you don’t already have it or know it. This workshop is suitable for those new to Astrology as well as for folks who have a firm handle on it. We’re essentially using astrology as a starting point for generative writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f374be9e-5fe8-4a5a-a3d8-136029325616/andi-2.jpg Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile - Andrea Talarico Co-owner of Stanza Books, Andrea Talarico (Cancer sun/Pisces moon/Sagittarius rising, she/her) is a Beacon-based writer, poet, and general witchy poo (astrology, tarot, ritual work.) She co-hosted a podcast with close friend Lisa Marie Basile called Astrolushes where they drank wine and discussed astrology, pop culture, and wriitng. She’s taught workshops on astrology, tarot, ritual work, and poetry, and her work has been featured in Luna Luna Magazine, The Poetry Project, Brokelyn.com, Yes, Poetry, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c87cbde0-cd65-4587-a07b-c8c05afb175f/Screenshot+2024-05-01+at+9.12.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile - Lisa Marie Basile Lisa Marie Basile is the author of a few books of nonfiction and poetry, including Light Magic for Dark Times, Andalucia, and Nympholepsy, among others. Her work can be found in The New York Times, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Small Fictions, Narratively, and more. Lisa Marie earned an MFA from The New School, and she's led workshops or spoken at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, and Pace University. She is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine. Her work explores trauma, darkness, ritual, the body and chronic illness, Mediterranean ancestry, foster care, and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1715627355751-MZ7JP02CE8MEMLJYD2U9/9780760370810.jpg Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1715627357330-866R8LXZ2CTJ4P7NZ9T8/9781592339341.jpg Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1715627359715-ATCXS7V7SU3MJVU70MR3/9781592338535.jpg Events - Writing the Cosmos - Andi Talarico & Lisa Marie Basile https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/book-discussion-how-to-win-an-information-war monthly 0.5 2024-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e0c1e94d-ad46-4676-8c1e-15be5e406f6d/infowar.jpeg Events - History book discussion - How to Win an Information War - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/raven-howell-storytime monthly 0.5 2024-05-13 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jack-gimm-storytime monthly 0.5 2024-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/64bc535e-68dc-4eb7-b4aa-975eb939e7c7/CCVV-Cover-Flat-JPG.jpg Events - Jack Gimm - Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76214f89-6324-4fb8-a8ad-7b51ea50ff9c/Jack+Gimm-photo-%28Credit_Stephanie+Jane+Lewczyk%29.jpg Events - Jack Gimm - Storytime - Jack Gimm Jack Gimm used to be a kid who wouldn't go near a vegetable. Now, he's a dad, a storyteller, and the author of "The Curious Case of the Vanishing Veggies"—a tale as curious as his transformation. Jack holds a BA from Swarthmore, where he took coursework in film studies and a Master of Architecture from Yale. With his background in film and architecture, Jack crafts stories that are as uniquely visual as they are imaginative. When he's not writing books, commuting to New York City, or attempting to do both simultaneously, Jack is busy entertaining bunny detectives at his New Jersey home. Hop over to Instagram @jack_gimm to join the fun! https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/lit-book-club-june monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6af60424-a257-4d1f-a106-c8c16f069dcc/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-MARTYR.jpg Events - Lit book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/ordinary-devotion monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/78774f04-320d-4b25-a99a-b1f3bd448c65/9781958972472_FC_reduced-683x1024.jpg Events - Kristen Holt-Browning - book launch Ordinary Devotion - Ordinary Devotion Braided medieval and modern stories of an anchoress, her handmaiden, and the adjunct professor searching for them across centuries as they each navigate ambition, confinement, and the patriarchy. “The modern and medieval stories spiral in and out of each other, intricate and vivid as the letters of illuminated manuscripts, connected by the mysteries of paradox: confinement and freedom, loss and fulfillment.” —Elizabeth Cunningham, My Life as a Prayer and The Maeve Chronicles “Holt-Browning is adept at honing in on the passion for life, nature, and language that can sustain a person through the hardest times.” —Nerissa Nields, Plastic Angel and All Together Singing in the Kitchen Twelve-year-old Elinor is enclosed with an anchoress, Lady Adela, in a cell at Wenlock Abbey, 14th century England. Centuries later, an adjunct professor of medieval studies discovers Elinor’s long-lost book of hours on a research trip to England. Holt-Browning explores women’s timeless struggle for personal agency as her unforgettable characters discover the burdens and rewards of faith and devotion. A must-read for fans of Julian of Norwich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3f8b54c2-1eee-4667-81f0-92d20a372e05/KHB+headshot.jpg Events - Kristen Holt-Browning - book launch Ordinary Devotion - Kristen Holt-Browning Kristen Holt-Browning is a novelist, poet, and freelance copy editor and proofreader. Her poetry chapbook, The Only Animal Awake in the House, was published by Moonstone Press in 2021. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several literary journals, including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, and Necessary Fiction. She holds a BA from Connecticut College and an MA from University College London. Ordinary Devotion is her first novel. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/donna-minkowitz-donnaville monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4382e427-2567-4576-bc5f-fa0731b6bcf5/minkowitz+comp+final+%28002%29.jpg Events - Donna Minkowitz - Book launch, Donnaville - Donnaville Donna Minkowitz’s hell-bent, boundary-busting novel DONNAVILLE, in which different parts of the author attack each other, bed each other, and try to save each other from a terrifying jail inside. Can they burn the prison down? Will anyone succeed at having sex with the Divine Mother? A multi-gender, multi-sexuality, queer as f internal quest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b9b9abed-fca1-4c3d-ad86-7285bcd478d6/nice+Donna+by+Rena.jpg Events - Donna Minkowitz - Book launch, Donnaville - Donna Minkowitz Donna Minkowitz is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the memoirs Growing Up Golem and Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury. Author Mary Gaitskill has celebrated her as "original, energetic, witty, and meaty,” and Kirkus has praised the "defiant and playful energy" of her work. She was the Village Voice’s longtime columnist on queer politics and culture, and a columnist for The Advocate. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Slate, and Salon, and she has frequently gone undercover to report on the far right. Minkowitz is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, an Exceptional Merit Media Award, an Art Omi residency, and an award for outstanding journalism from NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. According to director Kimberly Peirce, the movie "Boys Don't Cry" was directly inspired by Minkowitz's 1994 Village Voice article about Brandon Teena. Minkowitz hosts the Lit Lit literary open mic series in Beacon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fc125360-0723-4d6d-b8d8-0323aa18c70b/IMG_0414.jpg Events - Donna Minkowitz - Book launch, Donnaville - Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh is a self trained fine art photographer living and working in Beacon, NY. S/He also writes short stories and essays. He/r essays can be found online at essaysonattentionpaid.com. He/r short stories have twice been featured in Twice Told, a local series featuring writers paired with a visual artist whose work inspires the stories of the artists. S/He has also been the featured visual artist for Twice Told. Michael reads his work from time to time at Lit Lit, a literary open mic program hosted by Donna Minkowitz. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/brian-asman-good-dogs monthly 0.5 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/14ebc2c5-dbca-4ad3-a3fe-cb8a08fcc2c5/OCT-INSTA-OCT-10.jpg Events - Brian Asman - GOOD DOGS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2eacd706-e773-4108-a18e-00cdc7c7ceae/9798212630979.jpg Events - Brian Asman - GOOD DOGS - BOOK LAUNCH: GOOD DOGS The debut novel from viral horror sensation Brian Asman, Good Dogs is a heartfelt and harrowing story of survival, belonging, found family, and the lengths we'll go to protect it. No one ever said being a werewolf was easy. Take Delia, for instance. She's spent much of her life fighting against her own nature, plagued by nightmares of childhood trauma, and trying to find her place in the world. Many werewolves are just like her: ostracized by their families, forced to live alone and in secret as they await those nights when the Change overtakes them. Becoming the den mother to an odd bunch of lycanthropes in Southern California isn't exactly the answer Delia was looking for. But under the strict rules of the house, they are able to manage the Change safely and hunt without endangering their San Diego suburb. And they aren't lone wolves anymore, they're a pack--a family. But when one member's carelessness leads to the discovery of a severed leg in their backyard, Delia and the rest of her family are forced to confront the cold, hard fact they've known all along--they don't belong here. Their only option is to cover up the kill and head into the wilderness, far from people. There, hopefully, they can live out their lives without posing a threat to anyone else. At home, they might've been apex predators. But in the wilds around Talbot--a town abandoned for a century--Delia and her pack aren't the only ones with a savage bite ... https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/hekates-return-may-19-taylor-co monthly 0.5 2024-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1714939068998-C1J9H2DUPGSDYYTV3UJZ/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-taylor-1.jpg Events - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN @ Taylor & Co, BKLYN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c229d9ea-9b27-47af-bb54-8ab0e7300a4e/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-taylor-2.jpg Events - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN @ Taylor & Co, BKLYN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/aa010cb6-f00e-47da-87b3-6df2e520cf2a/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-taylor-3.jpg Events - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN @ Taylor & Co, BKLYN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e32bb1c2-8574-410d-8e26-9f0fe353352b/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-taylor-4.jpg Events - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN @ Taylor & Co, BKLYN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b09bb34e-247d-4509-bc4a-047831cf5504/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-taylor-5.jpg Events - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN @ Taylor & Co, BKLYN - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/paul-tremblay-horror-movie monthly 0.5 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/5ae8ba9c-4ef3-4fc8-b983-a69b0d6dbc16/HorrorMovie_HC.jpg Events - HORROR MOVIE - Paul Tremblay in conversation with John Langan, IN PERSON - HORROR MOVIE A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World. In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned. But at what cost? Horror Movie is an obsessive, psychologically chilling, and suspenseful feat of storytelling genius that builds inexorably to an unforgettable, mind-bending conclusion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4475a51b-254a-4cc3-bb98-ee104954ca47/tremblayPic.JPG Events - HORROR MOVIE - Paul Tremblay in conversation with John Langan, IN PERSON - Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the nationally bestselling author of The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He lives outside Boston with his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/094e276c-12d9-4fbd-a555-862ed3e62b7a/JohnLanganReading2023.jpg Events - HORROR MOVIE - Paul Tremblay in conversation with John Langan, IN PERSON - John Langan John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. For his work, he has received the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror awards. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson award, he serves on its Board of Advisors. His reviews and essays have been widely published. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and bubbling fish tanks. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/jason-koo-no-rest monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1715184385540-7TIF4RVLZ7ZVOQFV87JW/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-jason-koo-kristen.jpg Events - Jason Koo - NO REST - Make it stand out WHAT DO WE TRULY KNOW? Are we deceiving ourselves when we think we know ourselves or the world? Jason Koo's No Rest, a winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest, pursues these questions through a series of long poems like essays in verse that demonstrate the elusiveness of any answers even as they keep up the pursuit. The book begins on the day after the 2016 presidential election, when Koo discovers that his best friend from high school has killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. The year he thought would be the best of his life—because of the unexpected joy of meeting his future wife and seeing his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers win the city's first championship since 1964—turns out to be just another triumph of his own self-absorption. The book then returns to the start of 2016, unfolding along two arcs: one to the poet's fortieth birthday that August, the other spanning the next four years to the outbreak of COVID-19. With bitter honesty and irreverent, self -deprecating humor, Koo's No Rest explores the problem of how to emerge from the condition of the "exact same," the "saturation // of the same so-be-it that has always been" in American life, and the only truth that becomes clear over the course of this relentless, boundary-stretching book is that there is no rest to this quest. Juxtaposing personal failures against systemic ones, No Rest shows again and again that what we think is knowing is not knowing, doing is not doing, being is not being. We always find ourselves enclosed again in the "social fabric of fabrications," still trying to begin being in a more truthful, impactful way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3ca4998b-1a7a-4d2f-b470-aad0edabf38b/Jason%2BKoo.jpeg Events - Jason Koo - NO REST - Jason Koo Jason Koo is a second-generation Korean American poet, educator, editor and nonprofit director. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: No Rest, a winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest, More Than Mere Light, America's Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. His work has been published in Best American Poetry 2022, Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Village Voice and Yale Review, among other places, and won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and New York State Writers Institute. He is an associate teaching professor of English and the director of creative writing at Quinnipiac University and the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets. For his work with Brooklyn Poets, Koo was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" by Brooklyn Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/71af3c1b-d1f8-4031-a82b-b2d77819a1d0/KHB%2Bheadshot.jpg Events - Jason Koo - NO REST - Kristen Holt-Browning Kristen Holt-Browning is a poet, writer, and editor. She has published a poetry chapbook, The Only Animal Awake in the House, and she is a recipient of a Hortus Arboretum Residency for Literary Artists. A native of the Hudson Valley, Kristen holds an MA in English from University College London and lives in Beacon, NY with her husband and two sons. Her first novel, Ordinary Devotion, will be published by Monkfish Book Publishers in November 2024. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/a-thousand-times-before monthly 0.5 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/68a62b87-267a-4365-9691-16dd18d77125/9780593654644.jpeg Events - A Thousand Times Before - A Thousand Times Before A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping readers from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn. Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she’s long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated by a secret her family has kept for centuries, one that Ayukta will be the first to share with someone outside their bloodline: the women in her family inherit a mysterious tapestry, through which each generation can experience the memories of those who came before her. Ayukta invites Nadya into this lineage, carrying her through its past. She relives her grandmother Amla’s life: Once a happy child in Karachi, Amla migrates to Gujarat during Partition, witnessing violence and loss that forever shape her approach to marriage and motherhood. Amla’s daughter, Arni, bears this weight in her own blood in 1974, when gender equity and urban class distinctions divide the community as a bold student movement takes hold. As Ayukta unspools these generations of women—whole decades of love, loss, heartbreak, and revival—she reveals the tapestry’s second gift: the ability for each of these women to dramatically reshape their own worlds. Like all power, both fantastic and societal, this inheritance is more treacherous than it seems. What would it mean, to impart an impossible burden? To withhold these incredible gifts? Sweeping, deeply felt and intergenerational, A Thousand Times Before is a debut as poetic as it is propulsive, as healing as it is heartbreaking, as it examines what it means to carry our past with us and to pass it on. Rooted in a tender love story, and spun with a tremendous amount of care, this book is a rare, remarkable feat from an incredible new literary talent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8f317c53-5d66-45f4-971e-3b5a2049d550/DSC_4735.jpg Events - A Thousand Times Before - Asha Thanki Asha Thanki is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before, forthcoming 2024 from Viking Books. An essayist and fiction writer, Asha’s work has appeared in The Southern Review, Platypus Press’ wildness, The Common, Catapult, Hyphen, and more. A Kundiman fellow, Asha has received support from Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature (Speculative Literature Foundation). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8fa17c40-4fe8-45cf-af5c-48eb18f916dd/daniel%2BV.jpg Events - A Thousand Times Before - Daniel Varghese Daniel Varghese is an editor and writer living in Brooklyn. He recently founded Leg Day, a newsletter about pursuing joy as a New York City cyclist. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, GQ and The Ringer. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/elisa-albert-launch-wlauren-milici monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b1cc8f37-ab59-4f6f-a0fc-95eb15fe7da1/9781960988065_FC.jpg Events - The Snarling Girl book launch - Elisa Albert w/Leza Cantoral - The Snarling Girl In sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos of punk, all in the midst of making a home in the strange city of Albany, New York. With wit and wariness, skepticism and surrender, this collection offers a first-of-its-kind window into the life and mind of an author Shalom Auslander once called “Bukowski with a vagina and a motherf*cker of a hangover.” Whether writing about doula training, struggling to embroider local community, art vs commerce, antisemitism, or growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, Albert is heartfelt, rigorous, and delightfully self-aware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4cad62b1-7227-4500-9a2a-cd4cc4530b53/Elisa+Albert+bio+pic.jpg Events - The Snarling Girl book launch - Elisa Albert w/Leza Cantoral - Elisa Albert Elisa Albert is the author of the novels Human Blues, After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, and the story collection How This Night is Different. She has worked as a bookseller, barista, executive assistant, full-spectrum doula, housewife, Hebrew School teacher, and professor of creative writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b9c76245-3493-49b3-9c91-961e77e3345b/Leza+bio.jpg Events - The Snarling Girl book launch - Elisa Albert w/Leza Cantoral - Leza Cantoral Leza Cantoral is the publisher of CLASH Books and lives in upstate New York. She is the editor of Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath and the author of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/breaking-the-curse monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1714604105028-L8S4W436G8IX41VAHPMI/7S-DiFrancesco_PB_cov_mech_draft-2-f_feature-1d15429b4376eeed220b6f3dc0b801fc.png Events - Saturday Salon - Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco & Lisa Marie Basile - Breaking the Curse A tour de force of narrative nonfiction, a reimagining of the self-help genre, and a brave memoir about mystical forces, trauma, trans life, and how we must heal ourselves to survive.For readers of memoirs by Elliot Page (Pageboy) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic), and fans of writers like Carmen Maria Machado, Samantha Hunt, and Chavisa Woods. In Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco takes their own crushing experiences of assault, addiction, and transphobic violence as the starting point for a journey to self-reclamation. Reeling in the aftermath of a rape that played out as painfully in public as in private, DiFrancesco begins to pursue spirituality in earnest, searching for an ancestral connection to magic as a form of protection and pathway to transformation. Propelled by a knowledge of the spiritual role of the transgender person in society, Alex winds through Cleveland and Brooklyn and Philly--from rehab and pagan AA meetings and friends' spare mattresses to tarot readers and books about Italian witchcraft to daily ritual, prayer, altar-making, and folk tradition. In so doing, they begin to not only piece together a way to heal but also call into existence a life that finally feels worth living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/3f400fda-b205-454a-8dd2-5486cc7e8a7c/129728403_1570288726511143_18437353461357483_n+%282%29.jpg Events - Saturday Salon - Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco & Lisa Marie Basile - Alex DiFrancesco Alex DiFrancesco is the author of Psychopomps, All City, Transmutation, and Breaking the Curse. Their work has appeared in New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Tin House, Brevity, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and more. They are the first transgender awards finalist in over 80 years of the Ohioana book awards. They live in Philadelphia with their dog, Roxy Music, Dog of Doom, and their cat, Janglin' Jack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/c87cbde0-cd65-4587-a07b-c8c05afb175f/Screenshot+2024-05-01+at+9.12.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Saturday Salon - Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco & Lisa Marie Basile - Lisa Marie Basile Lisa Marie Basile is the author of a few books of nonfiction and poetry, including Light Magic for Dark Times, Andalucia, and Nympholepsy, among others. Her work can be found in The New York Times, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Small Fictions, Narratively, and more. Lisa Marie earned an MFA from The New School, and she's led workshops or spoken at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, and Pace University. She is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine. Her work explores trauma, darkness, ritual, the body and chronic illness, Mediterranean ancestry, foster care, and place. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-horror-book-club-may monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1ed5bfe7-92ac-43ec-b45d-319caefd8ed0/larocca+cover.jpeg Events - Stanza Horror Book Club - May - This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award(R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolized while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known about her father. SEEDLING A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother's body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist. Then he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. ALL THE PARTS OF YOU THAT WON'T EASILY BURN Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction... PRICKLE Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences... https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/amerikaland-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ac4b338e-0e62-4426-b64a-ad9fce1d21b8/Amerikaland.png Events - AMERIKALAND - book launch - About the novel In a reimagined present day, two athletes find themselves in NYC for World Day—a sporting event meant to celebrate international peace. For years, Sabine was regarded as a tennis legend, until an act of violence threatened her life and career. Now, she is determined to stand before the crowds once again a winner. Sandy is the beloved star of his hometown baseball team, but a recent horrific antisemitic crime nearly unravels him. Their lives are forever changed when a massive terrorist attack strikes World Day. As Sabine and Sandy emerge from this destruction, their journeys take them across the Atlantic and back again, where they come to understand how they are each connected to the attack—connections veiled by shocking family secrets and geopolitical motivations. After these revelations, they’ll have to decide if their love and friendship can bridge a path forward. In striking resonance with today’s rising antisemitism, Amerikaland tells the emotional story of people battling their histories and charting their own fates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/13afedbf-8455-426f-85bd-c7233e30f84b/author_photo.JPG Events - AMERIKALAND - book launch - Danny Goodman Danny Goodman's writing has appeared in various publications, and he was the recipient of a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, where he was a two-time winner of the Samuel Mockbee Award. He lives in Beacon with his wife, a book editor, and their editorial cats. AMERIKALAND is his debut novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/48e1466a-4e08-428c-a80f-3e7eaeb4f0e4/Jansma_08_02_2022-08+%282%29.jpg Events - AMERIKALAND - book launch - Kristopher Jansma Kristopher Jansma is the author of the forthcoming book Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers (Quirk Books, 10/15) as well as the novel Our Narrow Hiding Places (Ecco, 8/13). His previous novels are Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, as well as the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/stanza-sci-fi-book-club-may monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2a19919d-6ab8-414d-9076-e66edde1b405/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-EYES-VOID.jpg Events - Stanza Sci-Fi book club - May - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop-june-24 monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ec5052e8-5f3f-4060-8a89-19f292fc70fd/Claire-headshot.png Events - Stanza fiction workshop - June - The business of writing with literary agent Claire Harris Claire Harris of PS Literary Agency will answer questions about working with agents, the state of publishing, or anything else related to the business of writing. Claire Harris is a literary agent at PSLA representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for adults. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, she got her start in publishing through the NYU Summer Publishing Institute. Claire seeks projects that shine a spotlight on people, places, and events that are often overlooked or not given the attention they deserve. She loves complex and well-developed characters, unique voices, and twisty plots. She enjoys the creative process of working with creators and collaborating closely with them throughout all stages of their careers. Having grown up in Wisconsin, she has a soft spot for stories set in the Midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76f795fe-4655-4a50-a7b3-222c5e2c4205/Rebelein_Headshot.jpg Events - Stanza fiction workshop - June - The craft of writing with author Sam Rebelein Bring in 5-10 pages to review and work on with Stoker-nominated author Sam Rebelein. Sam Rebelein holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, with a focus on Horror and Memoir. His work has appeared in PseudoPod, Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Press Pause Press, Coffin Bell Journal, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. Sam’s debut horror novel Edenville is out now from William Morrow and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His follow-up collection of stories set in the same fictional universe, The Poorly Made and Other Things, is coming for you in early 2025. For more about Sam's work (and pictures of his dog), find him on Instagram @RebelSam94. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/7znexm8hybscvh4ddis2aak6eiyrbt monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/31771de6-073a-4d74-8bef-9bcb6fee9d1f/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-OLD+GODS+TIME.jpg Events - Stanza Lit Book club May - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fiction-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ec5052e8-5f3f-4060-8a89-19f292fc70fd/Claire-headshot.png Events - Stanza fiction workshop - May - The business of writing with literary agent Claire Harris Claire Harris of PS Literary Agency will answer questions about working with agents, the state of publishing, or anything else related to the business of writing. Claire Harris is a literary agent at PSLA representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for adults. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, she got her start in publishing through the NYU Summer Publishing Institute. Claire seeks projects that shine a spotlight on people, places, and events that are often overlooked or not given the attention they deserve. She loves complex and well-developed characters, unique voices, and twisty plots. She enjoys the creative process of working with creators and collaborating closely with them throughout all stages of their careers. Having grown up in Wisconsin, she has a soft spot for stories set in the Midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/76f795fe-4655-4a50-a7b3-222c5e2c4205/Rebelein_Headshot.jpg Events - Stanza fiction workshop - May - The craft of writing with author Sam Rebelein Bring in 5-10 pages to review and work on with Stoker-nominated author Sam Rebelein. Sam Rebelein holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, with a focus on Horror and Memoir. His work has appeared in PseudoPod, Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Press Pause Press, Coffin Bell Journal, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. Sam’s debut horror novel Edenville is out now from William Morrow and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His follow-up collection of stories set in the same fictional universe, The Poorly Made and Other Things, is coming for you in early 2025. For more about Sam's work (and pictures of his dog), find him on Instagram @RebelSam94. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/fantasy-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/41bba781-d99f-47ca-ac10-e40835435ed1/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-FANTASY+BOOK+CLUB-MAY-24.jpg Events - Stanza Fantasy book club - May - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-diavola monthly 0.5 2024-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4aad3d52-dbef-4138-9312-e45f34aec9c1/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-DIAVOLA.jpg Events - Stanza horror book club - DIAVOLA Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/book-discussion-the-persuaders-chapters-1-3 monthly 0.5 2024-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0f95bc20-f9f1-4e94-97d7-d669a9bd5242/persuaders-cover.jpg Events - Book Discussion, The Persuaders Chapters 1-3 - The Persuaders A discussion around the book The Persuaders, by New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas. Led by Mai Jacobs. An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy. As the book's subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don't agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country. "Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America--by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds." --Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/kate-axelrod-and-khaholi-bailey monthly 0.5 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1711662510814-48DI67K8ONFCJ39L2QHP/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-may4.jpg Events - Kate Axelrod and Khaholi Bailey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/34f38f9a-c2a5-4e73-80d8-4376483fbe7a/katepic.jpg Events - Kate Axelrod and Khaholi Bailey - Kate Axelrod Kate Axelrod's writing can be found in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Joyland and various other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/cb488939-65ae-4c84-a223-3a314558e45f/Khaholi+Bailey.jpeg Events - Kate Axelrod and Khaholi Bailey - Khaholi Bailey Khaholi Bailey is a writer of fiction and memoir. Her creative work has also been featured in FLAPPERHOUSE and Breadcrumbs. She holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Hunter College and lives in New York City. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/april-27-salon monthly 0.5 2024-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ac09ad19-f40e-4bc0-a46a-fd121dcdf2a1/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-4-27-FACES-closed.jpg Events - Colm O’Shea and David Hollander - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b93fa392-d093-41e2-827e-e4dae300ed57/Claiming+de+Wayke+official+cover+.jpg Events - Colm O’Shea and David Hollander - Claiming de Wayke What would you do if someone offered you the keys to a limitless reality? Tayto is a saint-someone addicted to their VR halo. He's uneducated, unmotivated, and loath to quit his habit and embrace the real world: the Wayke. When the mysterious Zeke Zohar contacts him, offering him a chance to be raptured into a VR paradise forever, it seems too good to be true. The catch: Zeke believes this chance hinges on them finding Tayto's genius brother, and his plan involves journeying to Tayto's childhood home, navigating the detested Wayke in the process. For all the weirdness of the VR universe, it's the real world that Tayto finds truly strange. His journey forces him to confront a gang, a cult, and the two great questions that addicts often face: Is it possible to come home? Is it possible to escape from it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1a67f307-6768-43fc-a070-e6e9a58c8b19/Colm+O%27Shea+Author+Photo.jpg Events - Colm O’Shea and David Hollander - Colm O’Shea Colm O’Shea teaches essay writing at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. His poetry has been anthologized in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing (Blackwell). His first novel, Claiming De Wayke, is available from Crossroad Press, and his book on sacred/morbid geometry in Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s Mandala, is from Routledge. Visit him at colmoshea.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/09363333-6ca0-47cf-9e8e-c96018457e28/Anthropica-frontcover_final.jpg Events - Colm O’Shea and David Hollander - ANTHROPICA A Hungarian fatalist convinced that the human race is a blemish on God's otherwise perfect universe; a natural resource scientist who's discovered that we exhaust the earth's resources every eight days; an Ultimate Frisbee-playing man-child who's identified a fractal pattern embedded within all matter; a failing novelist desperate for the approval of those she despises; a paralyzed philosophy professor discovering that he can make things happen simply by wanting them badly enough; and a trio of vengeful, superintelligent robots locked in a hangar in South Korea, patiently waiting for some gullible human(s) to release them. This is a partial cast of Anthropica, a novel that puts Laszlow Katasztrófa's beautiful vision of a universe without us to the test. Because even if Laszlow is merely, as he claims, an agent of fate, he's the one driving this crazy machine. And once he has his team assembled, he just might-against all odds and his own expectations-be able to see his apocalyptic plan to fruition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/b30951ab-ea80-4a04-b469-e9d07697f31e/2013.01.25+DHollander-22.jpg Events - Colm O’Shea and David Hollander - David Hollander David Hollander is the author of the novels Anthropica, a finalist for The Big Other Award for Fiction, and L.I.E., a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous print and online forums, including McSweeney’s, Fence, Conjunctions, The Rumpus, The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, and Unsaid. He has co-authored the book for a full-length musical, The Count, and his work has been adapted for film and frequently anthologized, notably in Best American Fantasy. He is currently at work on a screenplay, a musical, and a novel, none of which seem likely to come to fruition any time soon. He lives in Cold Spring with his wife and two children and is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/april-sci-fi-bookclub monthly 0.5 2024-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/da6e133c-2e21-4429-883d-7a515aaaff78/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-SHARDS.jpg Events - April SCI-FI Bookclub - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/ruth-danon-and-john-yau monthly 0.5 2024-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1712244587212-IZ02TPW45FAGT5W3K3Z9/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-RUTH-JOHN.jpg Events - Saturday Salon : Ruth Danon and John Yau - Make it stand out Stanza is honored to host a conversation and reading between two legendary artists, Ruth Danon and John Yau. Ruth Danon and John Yau have both made careers writing and teaching poetry at various respected universities, publishing nearly 60 books between the two of them. Both poets weave visual art into, through, and around their work: Danon teaches poetry as a studio art, and Yau is a renowned art critic and teacher, of whom Contemporary Poet said, “Yau’s poems [are] often as much a product of his visual sense of the world, as his awareness of his double heritage from both Oriental and Occidental cultures.” Yau’s recent books include: Tell It Slant (Omnidawn, 2023) and Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art (Black Sparrow, 2023). Danon is the author of four books of poetry -- Turn Up The Heat (Nirala, 2023), Word Has It (Nirala, 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2016), and Triangulation From A Known Point (North Star Line, 1990). Her book of literary criticism, Work In The English Novel, was reissued by Routledge in 2020. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/april-lit-bookclub monthly 0.5 2024-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/23a10e39-d0e4-40f2-ab2d-0a4240e2786e/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-APRIL-LIT.jpg Events - April lit bookclub - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/mar-23 monthly 0.5 2024-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/2e8633a4-19f0-4839-b06a-b907e3e93c54/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-MARY-2.jpg Events - The World is Ours to Cherish - The World is Ours to Cherish Author Mary Annaïse Heglar visits Stanza and reads from her book The World is Ours to Cherish. This hopeful picture book–written in the style of a letter–gives kids an honest take on climate change and urges them to band together to help the planet. The world is a big, beautiful place full of natural wonders–everything from bees to rainfall can seem magical. The world is also changing. Climate change has already had a devastating effect on the planet. But it’s not too late! If we work together and show a little more care, both for the environment and each other, we can keep this world beautiful. This moving debut from climate writer Mary Annaïse Heglar is perfect for budding environmentalists and anyone in need of a little hope for the future of our planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/4d8c71b7-86bd-45b2-84cd-8c3aa452c85e/Mary+Annaise+Heglar+credit+Maxwell+Swift.jpg Events - The World is Ours to Cherish - Mary Annaïse Heglar Mary Annaïse Heglar has written essays for publications such as New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, Vox, Wired, and Rolling Stone, among others. She is also the co-host and co-creator of Hot Take, a critically acclaimed climate newsletter and podcast. In 2020, Mary was the inaugural writer in residence at Columbia University's Earth Institute and has since taught classes there and at Tulane University. She is based in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is Mary's debut book. Follow her on Twitter @MaryHeglar and on Instagram at @mary.heglar. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/raven-howell-stanza-storytime monthly 0.5 2024-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/fc37af7e-290a-4bd0-b6ef-ce83dc29dc88/raven+howell-insta.jpg Events - Raven Howell - Stanza Storytime - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e8722d2e-7f47-4b3c-8482-90f71ad50296/Raven+Howell+bio+pic.PNG Events - Raven Howell - Stanza Storytime - Raven Howell Raven Howell writes stories and poetry for children. Having published several award-winning picture books, she enjoys sharing her joy of reading and literature by visiting classrooms and libraries. Raven serves as Creative & Publishing Advisor for Red Clover Reader, writes The Book Bug column for Story Monsters Ink magazine, and is a Collaborating Author for Reading is Fundamental and I am a Promise Books. She writes for children’s magazines including Ladybug, The School Magazine, Highlights for Children and Humpty Dumpty. As a storybook writer for educational publisher, Reading Gate, she aims for every child's opportunity to blossom. Raven resides in Cold Spring with her family and their sweet, but mischievous cat, Lilac. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/sci-fi-book-club-mar-19 monthly 0.5 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1708691288555-GTUNNFO0V39KLSMJ5SLE/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-sci-fi-march.jpg Events - SCI-FI book club - The Terraformers From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come. A science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to our future,The Terraformerswill take you on a journey spanning thousands of years andexploring the triumphs, strife, and hope that find us wherever we make our home. "Brilliantly thoughtful, prescient, and gripping."--Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries Also by Annalee Newitz Autonomous The Future of Another Timeline https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/horror-book-club-march-24 monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ac647789-0780-4be6-93b8-8fac57b5d45c/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOKCLUB.jpg Events - March HORROR book club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6af0ea9b-f22c-431d-b5ea-b94592b6708d/STANZA-INSTA-HORROR-BOOKCLUB-2.jpg Events - March HORROR book club - Edenville by Sam Rebelein "[A]n essential read for horror enthusiasts." --Booklist An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from "a major new talent!" (R.L. Stine), for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. "[A] delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror churned by a sharp-bladed critique of academia."-- Lucy A. Snyder, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sister, Maiden, Monster After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a writer-in-residence, he's convinced that his bad luck has finally taken a turn. His girlfriend Quinn isn't so sure--she grew up near Edenville and has good reasons for not wanting to move back. Cam disregards her skepticism and accepts the job, with Quinn reluctantly following along. But there's something wrong in Edenville. Despite the charming old ladies milling about Main Street and picturesque sunflowers dotting the sidewalks, poison lurks beneath the surface. As a series of strange and ominous events escalate among Edenville and its residents, Cam and Quinn find themselves entangled in a dark and disturbing history. Told with equal parts horror and humor, Edenville explores the urban legends that fuel our nightmares and the ways in which ambition can overshadow our best instincts. Sam Rebelein is an exciting, sharp new voice, sure to terrify readers for years to come. "The mundane horrors of rural and academic living collide with pure cosmic weirdness in Sam Rebelein's Edenville. Not since Jason Pargin's John Dies at the End have I been so horrified and grossed out by a book...I could say more, but honestly, the less you know about this book, the better. A fantastic debut."-- Todd Keisling, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Devil's Creek and Cold, Black & Infinite https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/march-lit-book-club monthly 0.5 2024-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1707578698503-X0B2RCUR64AMWLLEGAU0/drive+you+plow.png Events - March Lit Book Club - WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." --Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice? https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-12-02-23-84eg3-ln6gg-yfzpe-cjzmz-j2jrs-4yt8f-e8lmh monthly 0.5 2024-01-23 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8-g7cwl-hap5k-zd574-z8rgt-cbj22 monthly 0.5 2024-01-23 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/scifi-book-club-feb-24 monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1705677386001-NWBDPQI3VYVAPLYVRS4A/SCI-FI-FEB.jpeg Events - Sci-Fi Book Club Meet - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-12-02-23-84eg3-ln6gg-yfzpe-cjzmz-j2jrs-4yt8f monthly 0.5 2024-01-15 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8-g7cwl-hap5k-zd574-z8rgt monthly 0.5 2024-01-15 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-12-02-23-84eg3-ln6gg-yfzpe-cjzmz-j2jrs monthly 0.5 2024-01-15 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8-g7cwl-hap5k-zd574 monthly 0.5 2024-01-15 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/salon-feb-17 monthly 0.5 2024-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/6e883dba-ed85-4768-93ed-e54d2a1db822/victorian+couples.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - Love Party - It’s a Love Party at Stanza! Similar to our popular Solstice Party, Stanza invites the community to come celebrate the holiday of love, St. Valentine’s Day. We’ll discuss Valentine history, associated rituals, and the astrology of the season. Through curated readings, reflection, and ritual, we’ll explore four different forms of love: Romance, Friendship, Familial, and Self. Merriment and light refreshments included. As always, no pressure, all fun. FREE https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/silent-book-club-beacon monthly 0.5 2024-01-09 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/blessed-water monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/befdddcb-c2fd-473a-998c-ba44a7720694/blessed+water.jpg Events - Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery - Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux’s latest venture, Redemption Detective Agency—both in service of satisfying her eternal quest for answers. When Sister Holiday and Riveaux set out to bust a philandering husband, they instead find the body of a priest floating in the swollen Mississippi river, and with it, Redemption’s next case. It’s significantly more gruesome than their original mission, but Sister Holiday feels called on by God to hunt down the murderer and keep her community safe. As a torrential rainstorm drowns New Orleans for three harrowing days over Easter weekend, Sister Holiday and Riveaux follow the clues. With the stakes rising alongside the relentless floodwaters, our favorite punk nun–sleuth throws herself into the deep end yet again. A lacerating and lyrical plunge into obsession, deception, and the questions that hold us captive, Blessed Water is a lights-out mystery that will leave you breathless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/7049b2aa-966d-4139-817e-c6426b22dce3/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-MARCH-18-2+%282%29.jpg Events - Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery - Margot Douaihy Margot Douaihy lives in Northampton, MA, and teaches creative writing at Emerson College. She is the author of the crime novel Scorched Grace, which was named a best book of 2023 by Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, BookPage, and Marie Claire, among others. She is also the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/48ea9c2f-31ea-41f4-ac7e-0640bc79fcd1/STANZA-INSTA-TEMPLATE-MARCH-18-3.jpg Events - Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery - Andrea Talarico Margot will be in discussion with Stanza owner/proprietor Andrea Talarico, to discuss Blessed Water, and with a wider lens, Douaihy’s body of work from a socio-political perspective. Both Douaihy and Talarico grew up as Catholic, Lebanese-Americans in the greater Scranton area of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and their salon discussion will dive into the depths of these topics, and also poetry, queerness, patriarchy, and faith. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/adam-mckible-howland-library monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/ed1e86ad-0afe-4b4f-955a-83cc367272a1/circulating+jim+crow.jpg Events - Howland Public Library - Circulating Jim Crow, The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity - Circulating Jim Crow, The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity In the early twentieth century, the Saturday Evening Post was perhaps the most popular and influential magazine in the United States, establishing literary reputations and shaping American culture. In the popular imagination, it is best remembered for Norman Rockwell’s covers, which nostalgically depicted a wholesome and idyllic American way of life. But beneath those covers lurked a more troubling reality. Under the direction of its longtime editor, George Horace Lorimer, the magazine helped justify racism and white supremacy. It published works by white authors that made heavy use of paternalistic tropes and demeaning humor, portraying Jim Crow segregation and violence as simple common sense. Circulating Jim Crow demonstrates how the Post used stereotypical dialect fiction to promulgate white supremacist ideology and dismiss Black achievements, citizenship, and humanity. Adam McKible tells the story of Lorimer’s rise to prominence and examines the white authors who provided the editor and his readers with the caricatures they craved. He also explores how Black writers of the Harlem Renaissance pushed back against the Post and its commodified racism. McKible places the erstwhile household names who wrote for the magazine in conversation with figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Petry, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Faulkner. Revealing the role of the Saturday Evening Post in normalizing racism for millions of readers, this book also offers a new understanding of how Black writers challenged Jim Crow ideology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/f44e087d-3975-431b-a1aa-34fefa937cd9/adam+mckibble.jpg Events - Howland Public Library - Circulating Jim Crow, The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity - Adam McKible Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he teaches courses in American and African American literature. He is author of The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York; editor of Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue; and co-editor of Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches. His work has appeared in African American Review, American Periodicals, the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Modernism/modernity. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/salon-saturday-mar-9 monthly 0.5 2024-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/a23991b5-bfab-41dd-b474-7e435b66f008/Rebelein_Headshot.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - A Night of Horror - Sam Rebelein Sam Rebelein holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, with a focus on Horror and Memoir. His work has appeared in Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod, Gamut, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. Sam’s debut horror novel Edenville is out now from William Morrow. His follow-up collection of stories set in the same fictional universe, The Poorly Made and Other Things, is coming for you in early 2025. For more about Sam's work (and pictures of his dog), find him on Instagram @RebelSam94. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/0fec5ba2-e9bd-4c35-8dda-faf887159034/CHAPMAN_Headshot.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - A Night of Horror - Clay McCleod Chapman Clay McLeod Chapman writes books, comic books, children's books, as well as for film and television. His most recent novels include What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters. You can find him at www.claymcleodchapman.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/aff8f221-e99d-4c30-9730-30cbb19016ac/Me+for+website.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - A Night of Horror - Moderated by Christine Harrold Christine Harrold has been a booklover since birth and a fan of horror books since the 80s. She has been a busy horror bookstagrammer since she wrote a two sentence review in December 2020. Her love of reading and her appreciation of indie authors and the entire horror community has led to her new venture, organizing reader retreats called Horror Reader Weekends, the first retreat scheduled for November 1-3, 2024. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/literature-book-club-feb-24 monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e0be1a27-7440-4a6f-b8b6-421d4a52b8f1/forbidden+notebook.jpg Events - Literature Book Club Meet - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/salon-saturday-horror monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/1704643520761-DNQ62UY5I326JFBA1QSE/HORROR+FILM+POEMS.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - CLASH BOOKS’ Christoph Paul + horror legend John Langan - CHRISTOPH PAUL Christoph will read from his cult-classic book Horror Film Poems, a humorous and literary send-up to classics of horror films. Christoph Paul is the lead singer/songwriter of rock band The Dionysus Effect, the EIC and owner of CLASH Books, and an award-winning horror and humor author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/8783ba1b-278d-4384-8513-ebbd93d56913/fidherman.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - CLASH BOOKS’ Christoph Paul + horror legend John Langan - John Langan Langan will read a selection from his Bram Stoker award-winning novel The Fisherman, a modern classic of cosmic horror, a sort of melding of Melville and Lovecraft set in the Ashokan Reservoir. Fans of the horror film genre will enjoy the vignettes and references from Paul’s work, poets will appreciate the craft, and you’ll all get a laugh from it. Langan and Paul will discuss horror films, literature, monsters, and fear, with a particular focus on the Hudson Valley, where both authors live and work. John Langan is the author of two novels and five collections of stories. For his work, he has received the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror awards. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson award, he serves on its Board of Advisors. His reviews and essays have been widely published. He lives in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and bubbling fish tanks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/aff8f221-e99d-4c30-9730-30cbb19016ac/Me+for+website.jpg Events - Salon Saturday - CLASH BOOKS’ Christoph Paul + horror legend John Langan - Moderated by Christine Harrold Christine Harrold has been a booklover since birth and a fan of horror books since the 80s. She has been a busy horror bookstagrammer since she wrote a two sentence review in December 2020. Her love of reading and her appreciation of indie authors and the entire horror community has led to her new venture, organizing reader retreats called Horror Reader Weekends, the first retreat scheduled for November 1-3, 2024. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/salon-saturday-secret-sounds-of-ponds monthly 0.5 2024-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e61a497e-0f67-4a4c-861b-191ff35a9cbc/Screenshot%2B2023-09-29%2Bat%2B1.36.41%2BPM.png Events - Salon Saturday - SECRET SOUNDS OF PONDS - SECRET SOUNDS OF PONDS In Secret Sounds of Ponds, environmental musician and ecopoet David Rothenberg tosses a microphone into a pond and we read (and hear) about an entirely new realm: the unexpected and stirring rhythms of some of the smallest and loudest creatures on Earth. Recording the songs of the animals and plants inhabiting each pond reveals a different perspective than what we meet in our human society. Rothenberg makes this music real though his engaging prose and conversations with environmentalists ranging from Werner Herzog to Peter Gabriel to ecologists specializing in these unique waterscapes. Each pond episode brings the reader closer to a new understanding of the non-human world that we share. Rothenberg has previously investigated, recorded, and collaborated with the music of birds and whales. Now he writes, “Having heard the pond, I want to join the pond, making music no one species could make alone.” His energizing and technological research combines with a musician’s and poet’s creative aptitude as he discovers the orchestration of ecosystems, uncovering new connections lurking beneath the silent surface. Secret Sounds of Ponds is replete with full-color photographs and musical works presented both as colorful spectrograms and as QR codes that you can listen to with your phone. Some are musical, some are rhythmic, some Rothenberg accompanies on his clarinet. Roof Books is pleased to present its readers with this entirely new poetry of sound and humanity. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/salon-mar-2 monthly 0.5 2024-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64f1d0f1007fdf30ed697fc5/e4beeb44-3841-4928-8067-f1b1b6b7d1cc/STANZA-SALON-3-2.png Events - Salon Saturday - High and low magic in HEKATE’S RETURN - FREE An event for fans of magical practice, fantasy, and history, as well as for writers and members of the literary scene interested in small presses. In the novel HEKATE’S RETURN, the patriarchal servants of Moloch use rigid, ceremonial “high” magic to control their people and bend nature to their will. In contrast, the ancient and matriarchal Witches use intuitive “low” magic to collaborate and live in harmony with nature. These two societies face off in a battle for the futures of both peoples. In this event, we’ll read passages from HEKATE’S RETURN, dissect the magical systems in the novel, then discuss how those same systems manifest in our own lives. We’ll go on to discuss Stanza’s upcoming publishing efforts. “High” magic : Top-down, prescribed by an elite priesthood, and expressed through rigid ceremony and ritual. “Low” magic : Intuitive and personal, each practitioner wielding a set of tools to forge their own magical path. https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8-g7cwl-hap5k monthly 0.5 2024-01-02 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-12-02-23-84eg3-ln6gg-yfzpe-cjzmz monthly 0.5 2024-01-02 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8-g7cwl monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-12-02-23-84eg3-ln6gg-yfzpe monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/x-mas-day-closed-nt9tb monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/x-mas-day-closed monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/x-mas-eve-hours monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://www.stanzabooks.com/events/storytime-mondays-58xrz-n7px8 monthly 0.5 2023-12-09 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