Sat., May 30, 5 pm — Piccolo Spoleto’s longest-running event exclusively devoted to fiction, Piccolo Fiction returns to the Blue Bicycle courtyard for the 25th year! Three S.C. authors will read brief short stories: Linda Annas Ferguson, Ashley Poston and Areej Quraishi.
The reading is in the courtyard beside the bookstore, and, 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 is often a popular event, come early to snag a seat!
Free and open to the public, for more information please call 843-722.2666.
Featured authors:
Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of five poetry collections and the debut novel, What the Mirrors Knew. A former Poetry Fellow for the S.C Arts Commission, her work has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, including Beyond Forgetting: Prose and Poetry About Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State) and Seeking: Prose and Poetry Inspired by Art (USC Press). Her writing is archived by Furman University’s James B. Duke Library.
Ashley Poston is the New York Times best-selling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, and A Novel Love Story. She has also written over half a dozen young adult novels. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BA in English, she pursued a career in the publishing industry where she helped design and implement marketing strategies for novels. Now, she writes full-time from her little grey house, and spoils her three cats.
Areej Quraishi teaches Creative Writing at the College of Charleston. She holds a PhD from UNLV and an MFA from the University of Washington. Currently, she is working on a novel-in-stories featuring immigrant narratives, and a short story collection based on magic, myth, and psychological fantasy. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop, a Black Mountain Institute fellow, and the former editor of Witness.
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