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SPRING EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Philadelphia Stories Spring Event Highlights
Philadelphia Stories had a busy spring! Events included the LitLife Poetry Festival, Sandy Crimmins Prize for Poetry Awards ceremony, and two issue release parties.
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Editorial Director Carla Spataro greets the audience at the Sandy Crimmins Prize for Poetry Awards ceremony.
Sandy Crimmins Prize for Poetry Awards Poetry Runners Up: Kimberly Andrews, Chad Frame, and Brittanie Sterner.
R.G. Evans, recipient of an EDITORS’ CHOICE, reads his work.
Two young artists display their work from the new issue of PS Junior.
One Book, One Philadelphia's Brittanie Sterner introduces the readers of the Winter issue, our second themed issue done in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Families come out to celebrate the release of the new issue of PS Junior, our magazine by young writers and artists, produced in partnership with Mighty Writers.
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50 Over 50 is a collection of poetry, essays, and fiction by women over age 50. This anthology features work by notable authors like Robin Black, Bonnie Jo Campbell, J.C. Todd, Vickie A. Carr, and Rachel Pastan. While many of the writers included are emerging authors, all of the work has something funny, thoughtful, and compelling to say about sex, family, loss, and love.
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Come As You Are is the sequel to Christine Weiser’s critically acclaimed debut novel Broad Street. Come As You Are is a novel about balancing work, family, and a chick rock trio. Ten years earlier, these thirty-something women were best friends who played in the late ‘90s Philadelphia girl group, Broad Street. Time and circumstances drove them apart, but when they get an invitation to play an esteemed national tour, they put aside their differences to reform their old band.
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PS Teen is an annual magazine published each Fall featuring local writers and artists aged 13-18.
PS Junior is by local writers and artists aged 12 and younger, which will be published each Spring.
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Philadelphia Stories, Jr. & Teen, print and online magazines by young writers.
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