Hang out with me and my pals at the shop on Oct 28th at 6pm to celebrate too many things: 7 years of slinging books, the FEST, my 30th birthday, and Halloween. Featuring two of my book besties, Ryan Rivas and Brian Alan Ellis, along with Shane Hinton, it will be a not-to-miss night of Florida lit messsiness. Plus, Ryan will be reading from his new book, Lizard People.
Event is free. Books will be available for purchase (Buy my friends’ books to help them buy beer later and also support the store).
Shane Hinton is the author of the story collection, Pinkies, the novel, Radio Dark, and editor of the anthology We Can't Help It If We're from Florida. A fiction editor for Tampa Review, he teaches writing at The University of Tampa and lives in the winter strawberry capital of the world.
Ryan Rivas is the author of the image/text book, Nextdoor in Colonialtown and the novella, Lizard People. He is the Publisher of Burrow Press, and the Coordinator of MFA Publishing at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas creative writing program. A Macondo Writers Workshop fellow, his work has appeared in The Believer, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and elsewhere.
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and Hobbies You Enjoy. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Fanzine, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Forever Mag, X-R-A-Y, Heavy Feather Review, and Yes Poetry, among many other places. He lives in Florida.