Telling Our Story; A PEN in the Community Reading

PEN in the Community‘s 2017 residency at Fairfax High School cumulated with a public reading at the Greenway Theater in Mid-City Los Angeles. Students from Fairfax High School took the stage with writers from the Freda Mohr Senior Center to read their short stories and poems that they’d written over the course of the semester. […]

“From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel” available in print in F(r)iction No.9

My latest story is out now in F(r)iction issue No.9. It’s a love story. It’s also a sad story. It’s a sad love story. F(r)iction No. is the Obsession Issue and features fine literary fiction and poetry with a weird bent. Find F(r)iction in stores at Barns & Noble or order direct from the publisher, […]

F(r)iction No.9 Available Now for Pre-Order

F(r)iction Issue No.9, featuring my short story “From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel” is now available for pre-order from Tethered By Letters. No.9 is all about obsessions: Obsessions with love, death, sex, alternate realities, and the ideal Tinder date. No.9 features: JEFF VANDERMEER KIRSTY LOGAN DAVID GALEF Poetry by THOM YOUNG and STUART DYBEK […]

Final Reading for PITC Residency

PEN in the Community‘s Teaching Artist in Residency at Fairfax High School Pete’s freshmen creative writing workshop published their anthology and had their public reading on Friday December 1st at the Greenway Theater in Mid-City LA. 30 students worked with Pete and authors Chris Terry, Shawna Kenney, and Chiwan Choi to produce over 30 pieces […]

“From the Roof of the Henry Vaughn Hotel” nominated for Pushcart!

With great surprise and appreciation, I’m thrilled to announce that my short story “From the Roof of the Henry Vaughn Hotel” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Tethered By Letters and F(r)iction Magazine.