Ploughshares Release Party: Sinister Summer
When:
Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Trident Booksellers & Café
338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Business & Professional, Food, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup
Event website:
https://ploughshares-launch-party-noj5e.tripleseattickets.com/registration/select
In need of a good ghost story to tell around a campfire? Celebrate Halloween in July with Ploughshares! Join us for a reading and celebration of the sinister Summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Victor LaValle and filled with werewolves, monsters, and more. Copies of the issue and the readers’ most recent books will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.
About the Readers...
Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017) and the forthcoming novella collection Issues With Authority (Ghoulish Books, September 2025). She has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award five times and won a 2023 Bram Stoker Award for her nonfiction personal essay on politicized mental disorder in Indonesia. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Ferrell's novel, Dear Miss Metropolitan (Holt, 2021), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. Her first collection, Don't Erase Me (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is at work on a new collection of stories.
Barbara Lock teaches Narrative Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is Editor-in-chief of Variant Literature. There's more about her at barbaralock.com.
Food & Beverage will be available for purchase in room.
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