UPCOMING EVENTS:
November 3: Murphy Writing Fiction Workshop with West New York Board of Education (VIRTUAL/PRIVATE)
January 14 – 21, 2021: Murphy Writing Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway, (VIRTUAL THIS YEAR) Seaview Hotel, Atlantic City (Absecon), NJ, Beginning Your Novel. REGISTER OCT 1st. Check out Murphy Writing Seminars for this and other excellent writing workshops.
PAST EVENTS:
April 10, 2020: Murphy Writing Virtual Reading Series with Cat Doty & Tom McAllister. Video of this event here.
January 17 – 20: Murphy Writing Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway, Seaview Hotel, Atlantic City (Absecon), NJ, Creative Writing Sampler Workshop Facilitator (fiction). Check out Murphy Writing Seminars for this and other excellent writing workshops.
October 24, 2019: Presenter at NJ Italian Heritage Commission Professional Development Day. Presentation on social justice and equality-base curricula in high school education. Stockton University.
August 23: Featured Poet at Poetry Alive & Aloud @ Big Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, Mt. Airy Village, Philadelphia, PA, 7pm hosted by Mike Cohen and sponsored by Mad Poet’s Society ***LOCATION CHANGE*** Mt Airy Nexus, 520 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia
June 1: Reading & party celebrating More Challenges for the Delusional at AviAnna, 55 East Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, PA, 2pm
April 26: Teaching a workshop: All-Genre Critique Intensive, Murphy Writing of Stockton University’s “Writing in the Pines,” Stockton University Main Campus, Galloway, NJ, 9am, with Peter Murphy, Renee Ashley & Lois Marie Harrod
March 7: Glassworks Issue 18 Launch Reading @ Rowan University Art Gallery, 301 High Street W., 6:30pm with Jeffrey S. Markovitz
Read press on this event here.
February 24: Moonstone Poetry’s 2018 Featured Poets book launch reading, 2pm, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA. With Joel Dias Porter & Toni Libro. Hosted by Charles Carr.
January 12 – 13: New Year’s Writing Retreat, with Murphy Writing of Stockton University, workshops start at 9am, StorySlam! at 7pm
November 8, 2018: More Challenges for the Delusional Book Launch Reading & Murphy Writing 25th Anniversary Celebration, 7pm @ Stockton University Art Gallery, with Peter Murphy, Emari DiGiorgio, Andee Hochman & more
More Challenges for the Delusional Book Launch Reading & Murphy Writing 25th Anniversary Celebration, 7pm @ Stockton University Art Gallery, with Peter Murphy, Emari DiGiorgio, Andee Hochman & more
October 13, 2018: Poetry Workshop: Final Line without Flat Line: Revising without Killing Your Poem, 11am @ Otto Bruyns Public Library of Northfield, sponsored by The Center for Successful Aging of Stockton University
September 11, 2018: Writers & Words Series, 7pm @ Charmington’s, 2601 Howard Street, Baltimore; w/ Jane Lewty; hosted by Michelle Junot
April 22, 2018: More Challenges for the Delusional Book Launch Reading, 4pm @ Rectangle Studio, 540 A Freeman Street, Orange, NJ
April 7, 2018: Reppin’: Minority Writers on Responsibility, Hypocrisy & The Voices in Our Heads, The Muse & The Marketplace (voted the #1 writers’ conference in America by Writers Magazine), sponsored by Grub Street, Boston
January 29, 2018: Philadelphia Stories Winter Issue launch @ 5:30pm, Philadelphia City Institute Free Library, 1905 Locust Street; w/ Karen Rile, Adriana Lecouana & Emily Eckart
January 10, 2018: Moonstone Poetry Series, 7pm @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia; w/ Janet Fishman
July 10, 2017: Painted Bride Quarterly Presents, 7pm @ Black Sheep Pub, 247 South 17th Street, Philadelphia; w/Lauren Yates & Megan Gillespie, hosted by Paul Siegell
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