Join us for the festival’s longest-running event exclusively devoted to fiction. Piccolo Fiction, Sat., May 31, 5 pm, presents local and South Carolina authors reading brief short stories.
Held in the courtyard beside the bookstore, following tradition, each story begins with “I ducked into the alley…”
Since 2000, Piccolo Fiction has featured dozens of S.C. writers, with stories broadcast by S.C. Public Radio and published in the Charleston City Paper.
This year’s featured authors are Kate Fagan (The Three Lives of Cate Kay), Julia Elliott (Hellions), Laurie Devore (The Villain Edit), and Finn Merritt.
Featured authors:
Laurie Devore was born and raised in smalltown South Carolina and graduated from Clemson University. She is the author of the YA novels Winner Take All and How to Break a Boy, and most recently crossed over to adult fiction with The Villain Edit. After four years in the Midwest, she now lives and works in Charleston. In her spare time, she reluctantly runs marathons.
Julia Elliott is the author of the story collection Hellions, released this spring by Tin House press, as well as The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch. Her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and five hens.
Kate Fagan is the author The Three Lives of Cate Kay, which was the Jan. 2025 Reese’s Book Club pick. She is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run, as well as All the Colors Came Out, Hoop Muses and The Reappearing Act. A former professional basketball player, Kate spent seven years as a journalist at ESPN. She currently lives in Charleston with her wife, Kathryn Budig, and their dog, Ragnar.
Finn Merritt is a person who writes. (Writer is too much, he’s not quite there yet.) He graduated from S.C. Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities with semi-decent grades and has recently opened for David Sedaris. He is excited to be on stage any chance he gets, including the open mics in his hometown of Greenville. To see Finn again go to seefinnagain.com
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