Here’s an updated link to the Ten-Tucky Festival of Ten-Minute Plays at the Bard’s Town Theatre right here in Louisville. The poster isn’t completely accurate – it just runs for two weekends, September 8-10, and 14-17 – but if you’re in the area, check out “Squirrels in a Knothole,” as well as the seven other plays written by Kentucky playwrights, directed by Kentucky directors, and performed by almost two dozen Kentucky actors. Support local theater. Don’t let the hawk scare you off!
Author: peterjstavros
Plays
Kudos to everyone involved in the Kentucky New Play Series yesterday evening at the Kentucky State Fair, including Maxine and Brianna who were both outstanding, and very entertaining, in their roles as the cats in my play, “Out on a Limb” – wishing you much success in the future!
Fiction
“3:45” is up today and featured at Fixional – this is a companion piece to “Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore” and part of a collection of vignettes that I’m working on.
Plays
Hey all you fans of agile tree-dwelling rodents with bushy tails – “Squirrels in a Knothole” will be part of this year’s Ten-Tucky Festival of Ten-Minute Plays at The Bard’s Town Theatre right here in Louisville. The festival runs September 8-23. More details to follow. And watch out for that hawk!
Fiction
Just learned that my short, short, “Good Advice,” has been accepted for publication in the 16th print edition of the Crack the Spine anthology!
Announcements
R.I.P. Sam Shepard – one of my literary idols. When I was in college, I won a writing contest, and the prize was a $50 gift certificate at the campus bookstore, which I promptly used to buy up various collections of his plays – and which I continue to read and re-read today. He will be missed, but his prolific body of work, and the enigmatic characters he created, as well as the influence he has had on so many writers, live on.
Announcements
Thrilled to be included in this wonderful new website – At One Sitting – which features interviews with contemporary short story authors.
Plays
Weathervane Playhouse’s 2017 8×10 TheatreFest opens today with performances through Sunday. If you’re in the Akron area, stop by and check out all eight finalists, including my play, “Good Things.” This year, the plays have to incorporate a box of tarot cards, which was chosen by the audience members who attended last year’s 8×10 TheatreFest as the “inspiration” prop. Good luck to everyone involved!
Podcasts
“Smoke,” which was originally published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, is live now on Episode 218 of Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast. Check out this fabulous reading of my story, and while you’re there, listen to some of the other great stories on this podcast.
Fiction
So what do I have in common with the likes of Salinger, Vonnegut, Faulkner and Fitzgerald? Very, very (and still very) little … however, I can now say that, like them, and many of my other literary favorites, I have been published by The Saturday Evening Post! Check out “The Time the Johnsons’ House Caught Fire.”
