Moonstone Poetry – Prose Night

David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier

Wednesday September 18, 2024 – 7pm 

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82017815042?pwd=aLRcZOFnBsBoOfrU6001OawDPCuChe.1

David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his new novel Possible Happiness, which author Gary Eldon Peter calls “a coming of age love letter to Philadelphia in the late 1980s and to one young man’s journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.” A Philly native, Ebenbach lives with his family in Washington, DC. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com

Elayna Mae Darcy (they/she) is a queer poet, YA author, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. They aren’t sure what they love more—writing, or their cat, Bean. (Ok yeah it’s definitely the cat.) She is the author of the short story, CONTINUUM and has had poems published in just femme & dandy, and Impostor Lit, among others. They are the author of a poetry duology that includes UNRAVELING LIGHT  and DARKNESS UNDONE as well as the YA fantasy novel in verse, STILL THE STARS.

Autumn Konopka is a writer, runner, and trauma-informed teaching artist. A former poet laureate of Montgomery County, PA (2016), Autumn’s work has been published widely in literary journals, and her poetry chapbook, a chain of paper dolls, was published in 2014 by the Head & the Hand Press. Her debut novel, Pheidippides Didn’t Die (2023), has earned awards from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the Eric Hoffer Books Awards, and Writer’s Digest. Kirkus calls the book “a compelling adult romance that captures the complexities of trauma dynamics.” Autumn is a Book Reviews & Interviews Editor for Cleaver magazine and a volunteer and ambassador for Still I Run.

Sean Lynch is a writer and editor who’s published five books of poetry, the city of your mind (Whirlwind Press, 2013), Broad Street Line (Moonstone Press, 2016), 100 Haiku (Moonstone Press, 2017), On Violence (Radical Paper Press, 2019), and Halo Nest (Alien Buddha Press, 2024). He’s also the author of The Beast in the Pines, a psychological horror novel about the Jersey Devil.

Victoria Mier is a queer, disabled writer and suspected changeling. Her short fiction has been published in Del Sol SFF Review, Fifth Wheel Press, SORTES, and more. Earlier this year, she released her debut novel, Beyond the Aching Door, an urban fantasy set in Philadelphia. Learn more at victoriamier.com.

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