New American Press will host a reading event at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture and Design on Thursday, March 24, from 5:30pm until 10:00pm. The event will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Conferences. Entry and refreshments are free.

We will celebrate the launch of Erica Plouffe Lazure’s debut story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories. Also reading at the event will be New York Times bestselling novelist Kristen Arnett, Iowa Review Fiction Award-winner and translator Maija Mäkinen, poet and essayist Sara Fetherolf, Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize-winner Janine Certo, New American Fiction Prize winners Amy Neswald and Rachel Swearingen, MAYDAY Poetry Prize-winner A. Shaikh, Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize-winner Jacques Rancourt, Pushcart Prize-winner and Moon City Review editor Michael Czyzniejewski.

Center for Architecture and Design
1218 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 569-3186

For more information, please email david@newamericanpress.com.