St. Pete Reads!! A new reading series for the “City of Writers”

Wander around downtown St. Pete, and you’ll likely rub elbows with some of the best-kept secrets in the city: award-winning novelists, Pulitzer-prized journalists, beloved poets, publishers, editors and spoken-word artists.  Over the past couple of years, St. Pete has given birth to at least three publishing houses from which the careers of artists and editors alike have been launched into national waters.  We’re home to one of the last independent newspapers not yet masticated into irrelevance by Faceless Conglomeration.  Appropriately enough, our city has also been officially crowned a “City of Writers.”

Only problem is: this all happens beneath the surface, quietly, around the tables at Kawha Coffee, the Globe, or Café Bohemia.  Most of us don’t know these literary treasure-people are here, and even those of us involved in the writing “scene” don’t really know each other.

Time for all the writers to come out of the woodwork.

This article appears in May 13-19, 2010.