Welcome to the Catalyst’s Community Voices platform. We’ve curated community leaders and thinkers from all parts of our great city to speak on issues that affect...
When it was announced in 2019, The Factory St. Pete seemed like an ambitious undertaking: Eight converted factory buildings and warehouses on 6.5 acres, 91,000 square...
There’s a bit of a silver lining in the Covid cloud for Keep St. Pete Lit’s writing classes, as founder and director Maureen McDole explained Tuesday...
She’s Queen of the St. Petersburg storytellers, but author, journalist and filmmaker Lisa Kirchner said that getting up in front of people, and talking through a...
Seven years ago, Maureen McDole started Keep St. Pete Lit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making sure the literary arts – the written word – stayed...
Some people have a preternatural ability to look at a blank canvas, or a cracked wall or an empty room, and see what it will look...
A literary honor has been established by St. Petersburg Press, and named for writer, editor and teacher Roy Peter Clark. The public is invited to nominate...
They were amazing days, Ybor City in the 1980s, when cheap rents, artistic appetites and youthful hedonism collided to create a bohemian subculture that thrived, then...
The 5th annual SunLit Festival, with 24 – count ‘em – 24 literary and book-related events across St. Petersburg opens tonight (7 p.m.) with a kickoff...
Writers, readers and lovers of literature have been singing Maureen McDole’s praises ever since she began Keep St. Pete Lit, a producing and curatorial nonprofit that...