Beautiful, Violent Things Virtual Book Launch

A Novel Idea on Passyunk

Join us for the virtual book launch for Beautiful, Violent Things by Madeline Anthes.

Join us for the virtual book launch for Beautiful, Violent Things by Madeline Anthes, with guest readers Tara Stillions Whitehead and Christopher Gonzalez.


Saturday, September 11th 7pm ET via Zoom
Suggested $5 Donation


Tara Stillions Whitehead is a filmmaker and multi-genre writer living in Central Pennsylvania. Her writing was included in the 2021 Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for various awards, including Best of the Net, AWP Intro Journal Awards, and the Pushcart Prize. A former DGA assistant director for television, she is currently Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production at Messiah University, where she serves as production faculty for narrative filmmaking. Her hybrid chapbook/concept album, Blood Histories, was published by Galileo Press in 2021, and her full-length collection will be published by Unsolicited Press in September 2022.


Christopher Gonzalez is a queer Puerto Rican writer living in New York. A recipient of the 2021 Artist Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, his writing appears in the Nation, Catapult, Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. He currently serves as a fiction editor at Barrelhouse magazine and spends way too much time on Twitter @livesinpages. His debut collection I&#x27;m Not Hungry But I Could Eat is forthcoming.



Madeline Anthes is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. Recently, she won the Barren Magazine Flash Fiction Award, had an Editor’s Choice pick in CRAFT Magazine‘s flash fiction contest, and was a finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly flash fiction award. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and her flash has been longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions. She is the Assistant Editor of Lost Balloon and teaches writing at The College of New Jersey. Her chapbook titled Now We Haunt This Home Together was published in 2020 with Bone &amp; Ink Press, and her chapbook titled beautiful, violent things was released in 2021 with word west press.

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