The Salem Athenaeum is pleased to announce the fourteenth Salem Literary Festival (aka Salem Lit Fest), happening September 5-10. Most of this year’s festival will be held in person in locations around Salem, with a few sessions only offered online. The Lit Fest features more than 40 notable writers from across genres sharing their stories and writing advice with each

History, Metal, And Madness: Local Author’s Debut Novel Has Something For Everyone Author Dan Le Fever to release his debut novel, The Ashen War, this year on September 27th. It is heavily influenced by the music of the Swedish metal band At The Gates and takes inspiration from speculative alternative history fiction and modern post-apocalyptic movies. This cinematic novel is

by Joey Phoenix The first time I put words to paper for the sake of expression I was 11. It was my freshman year of high school (you read that right) and my English teacher gave us an assignment. The poem was called “Name” and it was about emptiness. It wasn’t a good poem, but it was the first time

The Write Space is a monthly Q&A series from Creative Collective covering a local writer and a North Shore space(s) s/he associates with writing.  Questions? Contact: ellorelizabeth@gmail.com. Give us your best writerly bio. Bobbi Lerman’s love for writing began at a young age when she would spend her afternoons crafting short stories about her extended family in the three family home where

Marina Griffin Design: Family Business Gets Creative by Katie Kobel Marina Griffin Design is a family owned business specializing in handwoven scarves and jewelry in Peabody, MA and were recently accepted to sell their products in the Peabody Essex Museum shop. As both businesses are members of Creative Collective, I had the pleasure of meeting the family and learning about

The Write Space is a monthly Q&A series from Creative Collective covering a local writer and a North Shore space(s) s/he associates with writing.  Questions? Contact: ellorelizabeth@gmail.com. Give us your best writerly bio. Phil Higgins is a nice Irish Catholic kid from the suburbs of Boston who now lives in Salem, MA. A natural performer, his starring roles in life have included

The Write Space is a monthly Q&A series from Creative Collective covering a local writer and a North Shore space(s) s/he associates with writing.  Questions? Contact: ellorelizabeth@gmail.com. Give us your best writerly bio. My art and stories were first reproduced by my teacher from her classroom mimeograph machine when I was in kindergarten. She handed copies to my 5-year old peers and

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America’s First Poet

Jim DeFilippi was born and raised in Duck Alley, on Long Island, and has been writing and living on a dirt road in northern Vermont since 1973. He is a husband of many years, a father of two, a grandfather, a retired school teacher, a special-needs bus driver, a Vietnam Era veteran, a popular speechmaker and story teller, a former newspaper columnist, a former small town newspaper editor, and a cigar maker. His novels have been highly praised by Publishers Weekly and other publications.