Dress up in your in your most ghoulish gar b and get into the Halloween spirit at this spooky storytelling event feat uring three New Orleans authors and two-sentence horror stories written by Library patrons. Submit your two-sentence story via Biblioboard.
\nE njoy creepy curiosities including the following:
\nAlex Jennings \;is a writer\, editor\, teacher\ , and poet living in New Orleans. He is the Program Director of DreamFound ry&rsquo\;s Con or Bust and pens a regular speculative poetry review colum n in \;The Magazine of Fantasy &\; Science Fiction \;c alled &ldquo\;Chapter and Verse.&rdquo\; His writing has appeared in \ ;Fantastic Stories of the Imagination\, \;Electric Velocipede \, Uncanny Magazine\, Fantasy Magazine\, New Suns\, and& nbsp\;Current Affairs\, among others. His debut novel\, \;The Ballad of Perilous Graves\, was released in 2022. \;
\nLadee Hubbard is the author of two novels. \;The Talented Ribkins \;received the 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fictio n and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. \;T he Rib King \;was named one of the 100 Must-Read of 2021 by \ ;Time \;Magazine. \;The Last Suspicious Holdout\ , her collection of short stories\, was published in 2022 and was longlist ed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her short fiction and essays have b een published in Arkansas International\, Guernica\, Oxford American\, and The New York Times\, among other publ ications. She is a recipient of The Berlin Prize\, a Radcliffe Institute F ellowship and a Guggenheim Award. She lives in New Orleans.
\nJon Pa dgett is a professional&ndash\;though lapsed&ndash\;ventriloquist who live s in New Orleans. He is the Editor-In-Chief of \;Grimscribe Press\, wh ich publishes \;Vastarien: A Literary Journal\, a source of c ritical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett &rsquo\;s first short story collection\, \;The Secret of Ventriloq uism\, was named the Best Fiction Book of the Year by \;Rue Morgu e Magazine.
\nLola Jean Darling is an artist and musician from the P earl River Reservation in Mississippi. She now resides in her ancestral la nds of Bulbancha (New Orleans) where she guides walks in the French Quarte r covering indigenous history. You can also find her at the Frenchmen Art Bazaar on the weekends selling her unique art and jewelry. \;
\nSponsored by the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.
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