April 18th, 2014 § § permalink
It’s official! Literary Firsts is in its fifth year! To help celebrate, we had a wealth of talent in the room on Monday night. Obehi Janice wowed us with three essays, Steven LaFond was a man on fire with short fiction, Ravi Shankar brought the room to a serene calm with his poems, and Lillian Medville stirred everything back up with her confessional tale. It was a thrilling event that made me so happy to be a part of this community and to have a hand in this series.
Obehi Janice reads her essays.
Steven LaFond reads his fiction.
Ravi Shankar reads some of his poems.
Lillian Medville regales the crowd with her confessional tale.
Photos courtesy of Randolph Pfaff (except the one of Lillian, which I may or may not have taken).
Videos can be viewed here.
Thanks a million to everyone who made it. Thanks to everyone who read. I can’t wait for July.
April 14th, 2014 § § permalink
Four readers! Four years!
Obehi Janice! Steven LaFond! Lillian Medville! Ravi Shankar!
Tonight at Middlesex Lounge at 7pm, Boston!
See you there!
March 14th, 2014 § § permalink
Steven LaFond is a two-legged tattoo.
Steven LaFond is a writer in Cambridge, MA. His work has appeared in apt, Drum Literary Magazine, Little Fiction, and elsewhere. He was one of the authors of the Derby Shorts anthology. He received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Steven is the fiction writer for the April 14 reading.
March 14th, 2014 § § permalink
Join us on Monday, April 14 at Middlesex Lounge to celebrate the series’s fourth birthday!
Our readers will be Obehi Janice (as essayist), Steven LaFond (as fiction writer), Ravi Shankar (as poet), and Lillian Medville (as confessional reader)!
Can’t wait to see you there!