“Award-winning author/playwright Peter J. Stavros offers timely understanding of how character is steeled or bent through accumulation of numbing nights, dark disappointments and occasional emotional escapes.” This is an excerpt from T.E. Lyons’ review of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore, which appears in this week’s LEO Weekly. Click on the link for the full review, and remember, Zoom reading tomorrow (Nov. 12 @ 6 PM ET)!
Fiction
I’m excited to announce that my short story “Just Like Saint Peter” has been chosen to appear in the inaugural edition of a new lit mag, Blydyn Square Review – look for it sometime in Spring 2021, and as usual I’ll post a link. Also, don’t forgot my Zoom reading this Thursday, Nov 12 @ 6 PM ET for my chapbook Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore – links to registration are available on every page of my website!
Fiction
Just posted a short short on my Medium page called “Sunday Afternoon.” It’s a piece I wrote last year, based on my observations sitting at a bar (when it was still safe to sit at a bar) and how I was feeling at the time. Have a great week – and try and do something you want to do!
Announcement
Just updated my website to add a new page called “Pictures” which has, you guessed it, pictures – some of me, of my play posters, of random things that sort of, kinda relate to me. I’ll update it as the mood strikes me. And don’t forget my Zoom reading and Q&A on November 12 @ 6 PM EST – details on how to register can be found throughout my site.
Chapbook
Happy Wednesday! I’ve included below the Facebook event page and Zoom registration information for my book reading on November 12 @ 6 PM ET. Hope you can join me – there’ll be a Q&A session at the end!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3350176921704898/
https://uindy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcO-vrDIjHN3vgTK0fU6O_9XC2dgoynad
Fiction
Hello everyone, and Happy Friday! Here’s an afternoon snack (or maybe a morning or evening snack, depending on when and where you’re reading this) to get your weekend going: the opening paragraph of my new novella, Tryouts – inspired by my attempt to make the varsity basketball team when I was a freshman in high school. It was named a Finalist in this year’s Trifecta Competition sponsored by the Iron Horse Literary Review. My plan is to publish it as a chapbook this spring, hopefully to coincide with the college basketball tournament. Enjoy!
There must have been forty of us, maybe fifty, kids of all shapes and sizes, crammed into that stuffy gym after class, the place reeking of sweat and dirty socks and farts, chattering, fidgeting, roughhousing. It was chaos on that Monday afternoon at three-forty-five, the first day of basketball tryouts, all of us vying for only eleven spots on the varsity team. Some clearly wouldn’t make it, some clearly would. And the rest, like me, fell somewhere in-between.
Announcement
Just a quick follow-up on my post from Friday. I now have a date and time for the Zoom reading of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore. It’ll be November 12 from 6-7 ET. I’ll post the log-in information and more details when I get them from the publisher. Have a great week!
Chapbook
Exciting news! I’m planning on doing a Zoom reading of my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore, sometime during the first of November. When I get the date and time, I’ll of course post that here. In the meantime, thanks again to everyone for all the positive comments and reviews. Happy Friday!
Announcements
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! More writing is on the horizon (including my first novel!) – as always, details to follow …
Writing
Just wanted to drop a note to thank everyone for the support and positive feedback I’m getting on my chapbook, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore – and to let y’all know that fresh writing is on the way, including a play I’ve been workshopping called, appropriately enough, “Social Distancing.” Stay safe and healthy!
