Curated by Amanda Pleau. Alexandra Munier has an art degree, and didn’t really enjoy writing up until very recently. Mostly because her high school boyfriend used to mock her cliche riddled English papers, and she lived many years wracked with shame. In 2009, she started a personal finance blog about being broke and single in [...]
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Scratchpad #7
Curated by Amanda Pleau. Deirdre Fulton lives on Munjoy Hill. She is the staff writer for the Portland Phoenix and a founding member of Lorem Ipsum, a local theater collective (Ubu Roi, Blood Wedding, and the upcoming Threepenny Opera). Under the pen name Elizabeth Miles, she is writing a young-adult paranormal trilogy about New England [...]
Scratchpad #6
Kevin St. Jarre lives in Maine. He served in the military and worked in the corporate world. His teaching and consulting have taken him around the globe. His first three novels were published by Berkley Books and he has recently completed another novel titled, “Deeds of Men.” He is working on a new novel and [...]
Scratchpad #5
Tuesday, February 15th, 7:00pm Mama’s CrowBar, 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map) FREE – bar is cash only/beer only/21+ FEATURING THE CAPTIVATING, AGILE AND ELOQUENT STAFF OF THE TELLING ROOM (that’s the place where stories grow) Heather Davis Heather came to Portland via Austin, TX, where she co-founded a youth writing center called Austin Bat [...]
Scratchpad #4
Tuesday, November 16th, 7:00pm Mama’s CrowBar, 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map) FREE – bar is cash only/beer only/21+ FEATURING THE SPARKLING, BRILLIANT AND SHINY Sybil Wilen Sybil’s short stories and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Solstice Literary Journal, Dark Sky, Pen Noir, Words & Images, Llewellyn Worldwide’s Magical Almanacs, The Witches Calendar, [...]
Scratchpad #3
Tuesday, August 17th, 7:00pm Mama’s CrowBar (f/k/a Awful Annie’s), 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map) FREE bar is cash only/beer only/21+ FEATURING THE EFFERVESCENT, ENTERTAINING AND ASTUTE Bridget M. Burns Bridget earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington in 2005. After graduating, she moved to Vermont where she was [...]
Scratchpad #2
Tuesday, May 18th, 7:00pm Mama’s CrowBar (f/k/a Awful Annie’s), 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map) FREE bar is cash only/beer only/21+ FEATURING THE DYNAMIC, SCINTILLATING AND CHARMING Natalya Fedorova MacWilliams Natalya and her husband moved to Portland from New York City three years ago as part of her plan to begin a writing career after [...]
Schedule change
As you can see from the list of upcoming events in yonder sidebar, Scratchpad is moving to a quarterly schedule. Why? Because “quarterly” anything sounds dignified and important. Also, we want to keep interest high and the risk of boredom low. The change takes effect after our regularly-scheduled May 18th event. Those details forthcoming, but [...]
Scratchpad #1
Tuesday, April 20th, 7:00pm Mama’s CrowBar (f/k/a Awful Annie’s), 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map) FREE bar is cash only/beer only/21+ ***Update! To celebrate our debut, the first 20 people through the door will receive a special limited edition Scratchpad pin.*** FEATURING THE AMAZING, TALENTED AND FRIENDLY Nicole Chaison Nicole Chaison’s graphic novel, The Passion [...]