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...
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...
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...
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...
Seven years ago, Maureen McDole started Keep St. Pete Lit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making sure the literary arts – the written word – stayed...
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...
