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June 27: Choose Your Own Adventure at Fairy Fest

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On June 27, join   the Schuylkill Center’s Fairy Fest to explore my choose-your-own adventure experience “An Invitation to the Otherworld.” Accept your invitation and choose your path to create your own story and explore the Schuylkill Center’s trails and landmarks.

 

“When a crow delivers an invitation to join a celebration in the Other World, you know you must go–but what happens after you cross the threshold to fairy land is up to you. Step inside the story to explore Schuylkill Center landmarks, both familiar and hidden, and fairy folklore from around the world. Written by Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia and the forthcoming The Night Parade and Other Stories, and presented by Buried Creek Collective, a new initiative to support informed storytelling about the changing Philadelphia environment.”

Find more details and buy tickets here.

New Class: Story Structure 101, June 28

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Join my new class, a one-session summer seminar on story structure, offered via the Writing Co-Lab on Sun., June 28, 7-8:30pm.

People are natural storytellers—so why are plot and pace so hard to figure out? Join me for one session on character, conflict, and plot to discuss:

  • the qualities that make characters compelling;

  • generating and structuring action;

  • hinge and crisis points, and where to place them;

  • satisfying and meaningful endings; and

  • dramatic models, and how to find your story’s organic shape.

Along the way, we’ll talk about practical strategies and techniques for brainstorming, analyzing, and revising. We’ll also address how to employ these fundamental elements in stories of different lengths, from flash fiction all the way up to novel series.

This class is suited to new fiction writers searching for a foundation in narrative; experienced fiction writers looking for a new grip on plot; and anyone who finds themselves stuck and in need of a plan to invigorate their draft.

 Read more and enroll via the Writing Co-Lab.

Story Structure 101

Preorder “The Elements of Dark Academia”

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I’m excited to see my story “The Genius and the Devil” in the anthology The Elements of Dark Academia, publishing in the UK in August 2026 and now available for preorder.  Get free shipping to the US from Blackstones!

Don your best tweed and sharpen your daggers: school is in session.

In this revelatory collection of over two dozen stories, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin guides us through the hallowed halls of Dark Academia, from its Gothic roots to its boundary-pushing present. Ranging from the mysterious to the fantastic, the romantic and the horrific, these stories explore the hidden secrets of elite institutions, probe our relationship with power, and examine the darkest corners of human nature.

Within these pages, you’ll meet obsessed professors and the students who will do anything to impress them. Artists and musicians who make deals with the devil. Academic rivalries that turn personal, and even deadly. Students who come to study, but learn that ivory towers often contain dark secrets.

On the syllabus, you’ll find:

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • Dorothy Sayers
  • Carmen Maria Machado
  • M.L. Rio
  • Lev Grossman
  • And many more.

 

The Elements of Dark Academia

Feb 10: Lindsay Merbaum and Vampires at Sea (and me)

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I can’t wait to welcome Lindsay Merbaum to Philadelphia to celebrate her novel Vampires at Sea!

Tues., Feb. 10
6:30 pm
The Head & The Hand (Philadelphia, PA)

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“Don your favorite fangs and vampire fashions and join us for a night of silly, sexy fun with Lindsay Merbaum, author of the queer horror-comedy Vampires at Sea. Lindsay will discuss her novella with local author Stephanie Feldman, lead a round of vampire-themed trivia, and share sex/relationship advice from Rebekah, an emotional vampiress and the narrator of Vampires at Sea.”

New Story: ENTHRALL!

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Very excited to share my latest flash story “Enthrall!”, out now in Hex Literary. Children’s games, an endless old house, a mysterious hostess, and my favorite collective narrator.

“The cheese course lay in ruins on the endless table. The parents were too tipsy or sleepy, too busy arguing or laughing or singing, too distracted loosening belts and popping buttons to demand patience, send sharp looks, or worry about offending the great house’s new owner (whoever she was, wherever she was). It was the first time any of the guests had been inside the great house, or attended such an elaborate banquet.

A child whispered, “Let’s play.””

Read the rest at Hex Literary.

Jan. 27: An Evening of Cocktails and Dark Fantasy with AC Wise (and me)

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I can’t wait to celebrate the launch of AC Wise’s new novel, Ballad of the Bone Road. 

Sultry Hollywood glamour and dark fae treachery collide in the latest novel of mystery, horror, and magic from A. C. Wise. In Ballad of the Bone Road, two paranormal investigators work to clear the glittering city of Port Astor of ghosts and demons, but they’ve both got secret baggage: Belleweather shares her body with a demon and Brix has trapped his fiance’s ghost in his home.

Join us for conversation and cocktails on January 27, 6:30 pm, at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA!

This event is free; RSVPS are requested via Eventbrite. Books may be purchased in advanced through Eventbrite or the store’s website, and signed copies may be purchased to mail within the U.S.

New Class: Scary Stories 101

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I’m excited to bring back “Scary Stories 101” in 2026! Join me for one session on horror history, theory, and technique on Tuesday, Feb.24 at 7:30pm. Together, we’ll talk about ghosts and monsters; society and power; tension and suspense; and literary theories and subgenres—as well as the fundamental principles that power all stories. We’ll use guided writing exercises to generate ideas and develop an original piece of horror fiction. Learn more and register via The Writing Co-Lab.

One session on the techniques and theory of horror fiction. Tues. Feb. 24, 7:30-9pm EST. $50

PA Spotlight Book Club Online – Oct. 23

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I’m excited to join the PA Spotlight Book Club to discuss Saturnalia! Meet us online on Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-7pm EST.

This event is in partnership with one of my favorite bookstores, A Novel Idea, a community-minded bookstore and event space based in East Passyunk, Philadelphia, run by Alexander Schneider and Christina Rosso-Schneider. Read more about A Novel Idea and purchase your books here.

Register and submit your questions for me here, and join the Discord group chat to discuss the book as you go.