April 20th, 2011 § § permalink
Heaps of gratitude should be thrown toward our wonderfully talented readers and audience members from Monday night’s reading. What a wonderful way to celebrate the first anniversary of Literary Firsts. If you weren’t able to make it to the reading, you can now watch the videos and pretend you were there. If anyone asks, you loved the free cookies (unless you didn’t–that’s okay too).
Carissa Halston reads from The Mere Weight of Words
April Ranger reads her poetry.
Emily Sweeney reads her essay.
Ethan Gilsdorf reads "Astral Projection, the Silver Cord, and Other Lessons."
Many, many thanks once again to Ethan, Carissa, Emily, and April for reading, to Randolph Pfaff who always captures the events through photography and video, and to the Middlesex who always provide a great venue.
March 15th, 2011 § § permalink
Emily Sweeney is a landslide headline.
Emily Sweeney is an award-winning writer and multimedia journalist who works for The Boston Globe. Sweeney is the author of Greatest Hits: A Mob Tour of Boston, and her work has been featured on the Howard Stern Show, New England Cable News, and other media outlets. She currently serves as president of the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a frequent guest speaker at colleges, universities, and media conferences. For more information, check out out her website.
Emily is the essayist for the April 18 reading.
March 9th, 2011 § § permalink
Our anniversary is fast approaching. Next month, Aforementioned Productions will be six years old and Literary Firsts will start its second year by featuring Ethan Gilsdorf, Carissa Halston, April Ranger, and Emily Sweeney.
To kick off the celebration, here are a couple of little girls reading by disco light.
Join us, won’t you?
February 21st, 2011 § § permalink
So happy to announce that the April date has been confirmed. We’ll be celebrating the one year anniversary of Literary Firsts on Monday, April 18.
Please join us when Emily Sweeney will be our essayist, April Ranger will be our poet, Carissa Halston will be hosting and reading fiction, and Ethan Gilsdorf will be our confessional reader.
It’s going to be a swell evening and we’re going to buy out the Middlesex Lounge’s stock of chocolate chip cookies. Just wait and see.