Register at lityoungstown.org/winter-writing-camp.
We may not have published a new title in two years, but we've remained busy behind the scenes with a couple of highly anticipated and long-awaited projects still in the works (more on those later). But Crisis Chronicles Press is delighted to be coming out of the closet, literally, to take part in three wonderful book fairs this fall and we'd love to see you at all of them.
September 19-20: The Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA) Annual Conference at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Wheeling, West Virginia.
September 27: The annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, hosted by the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts at City Place and other venues in Frostburg, Maryland. (I'll be reading there at 1 p.m. as well.)
October 17-19: The annual Fall Literary Festival hosted by Lit Youngstown in Youngstown, Ohio.
The annual Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival happens this week, October 19th through 21st. I will attend the kickoff event on Thursday evening. Then on Friday I will man the Crisis Chronicles Press table all day at their book fair in addition to being part of a 2:30 p.m. reading by contributors to the anthology I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing (edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour) in the Ford Theater at Bliss Hall. Unfortunately, I will have to miss Saturday's events.
The 7th annual Fall Literary Festival will feature Ross Gay, Jill Christman, Alison Stine, and the Craig Paulenich Endowed Lecture on Literary Community by Lit Cleveland Executive Director Matt Weinkam. This will be an incredible conference, with thanks to our sponsors the Centofanti Foundation, the Youngstown State University Center for Working-Class Studies, WYSU-FM, the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, Lake Erie Golf Cars, the Thomases Family Foundation, KO Consulting, the Grace Ruth Memorial Endowment, Ohio Humanities, the Wilkes University Master of Fine Arts, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts, Eastern Gateway Community College, the Ohio Arts Council and the Youngstown Foundation.
Registration for daytime events is now closed. Please join us for the free evening readings! For more information including a full schedule of events, please visit https://www.lityoungstown.org/fall-literary-festival-2023.
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Apparently,
the rumors of our demise are slightly exaggerated. Although we are not
accepting submissions at this time (because someone always asks), Crisis Chronicles Press will have a busy Fall: releasing a long-awaited book by Brandon Johnson this month, plotting the production of Oct Tongue 3, and participating in book fairs at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival and Lit Youngstown's 7th annual Fall Literary Festival.
If you feel inclined to buy a book or otherwise donate to the cause, please visit us at http://ccpress.blogspot.com/p/crisis-chronicles-press-catalog.html.
Supported by Ohio Humanities, the conference aims to sustain and enhance discussion on real and imagined literary places that shape our memory, experience and identity.
This year’s featured presenters are film scholar & screenwriter
Laura Beadling, fiction writer Kelly Fordon, filmmaker Karla Murthy,
children’s author Candace Fleming & poet Joy Priest.
My Crisis Chronicles Press will be part of the festival's book fair.
For more information, to register, and to view the full schedule, click here.
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2 p.m.
The Soap Gallery
117 S. Champion Street
Youngstown, Ohio 44503
