Keep St. Pete Lit recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. That’s a big milestone for a popular but perpetually under-funded nonprofit dedicated to residents’ pursuit of literary...
St. Petersburg poet Denzel Johnson-Green is the recipient of the 2023 Roy Peter Clark Literary Award, to be presented during the Sunlit After Dark event Friday,...
A new independent library in downtown St. Pete will celebrate banned books, and books that are in danger of being “removed” from Florida libraries because of...
There’s good news for book lovers. The Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading, consigned to virtual-land since 2020 because of Covid-19, will return – live and...
Let the wild rumpus start! This weekend’s SunLit Literary Festival, a loosely-tethered collection of events happening around the city, will be the sixth such lit-palooza organized...
The sixth annual SunLit Literary Festival, a celebration of the literary arts in St. Petersburg, will begin April 1 with the Roy Peter Clark Award, honoring...
Eleven Pinellas nonprofits are among the beneficiaries of $1.88 million in grants from Florida Humanities, part of the American Rescue Plan Covid relief package distributed by...
It was about three years ago when Ray Hinst, owner of Haslam’s Books, told Maureen McDole upfront he wasn’t a fan of poetry, but because she...
The cover of Feast, Maureen McDole’s upcoming third book of poetry, is an illustration by her daughter, 15-year-old Lily, of a bright red dragon with three...
