
Story Time LIVE – June 17th
Story Time LIVE is the event we have to celebrate our contest winners.
Three contest winners will read their stories and you will have the chance to ask the authors or editors questions. We will also have a general Q&A for those that want to stick around after the hour.

Ask Us Anything With Timons Esaias – June 24th
Join us for an anything goes question FREE for all! Bring your questions about writing and publishing, because Timons is a successful writer and teacher with decades of experience.
About Timons Esaias
Timons taught in the MFA program at Seton Hill University for 20 years and has hundreds of publications to his name, in several languages.
With fifty years of storytelling experience, Timons has boiled down the tools and tricks into a digestible, easy-to-follow formula that will help your writing blossom.
Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer, and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He is the 2020 Asimov’s Readers’ Award winner for the Best Short Story and winner of a recent The Winter Anthology Contest. He has also been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. His story Norbert and the System has appeared in a textbook and in college curricula.
His SF short story Sadness was selected for three Year’s Best anthologies in 2015, and The Asimov’s winner, GO. NOW. FIX., has been selected for two. Recent genre appearances include Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog, and Clarkesworld. Concrete Wolf brought out his full-length Louis-Award-winning collection of poetry titled Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek. His poetry publications include the Atlanta Review, Verse Daily, 5AM, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Willard & Maple, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Literary Journal of Baseball.
Timons was adjunct faculty at Seton Hill University for twenty years, in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA Program. Those who know him are unsurprised to learn that he lived in a museum for eight years.

Storytelling 101 with Timons Esaias – July 16th
Do you have a great story to tell, but never know how to get started?
Have you tried again and again to put your words to the page only to be disappointed by the outcome?
Translating an idea into a story may seem like an insurmountable task for many aspiring writers. Brilliant ideas are wasted every day by intelligent people just like you who can’t quite find the right words. Overcome the hurdles that every aspiring writer faces with Storytelling 101, a masterclass for captivating storytelling, led by award-winning short story author Timons Esaias.