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October 4, 2010 Pages & Places announces poetry contest winners! Pages & Places is excited to announce the outcome of its first annual Poetry Contest! Students in grades 3-11 from throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania participated, with hundreds of submissions coming in, making the contest highly competitive. To view the names of 0
October 1, 2010 New York Times Book Review: “I could not be prouder of my roots. . . . “: Scranton Celebrates its Writers Postcards From My Literary Staycation By JOE QUEENAN The last two summers, many cash-strapped Americans opted for a staycation: a slimmed-down getaway close to home. A staycation might take you to Cooperstown or Manassas or a town associated with luckless 1
October 1, 2010 Get Your Books Signed! From Noon to 1pm Tomorrow: Book-signing Hour Everyone, even Tom Delay, wants Christopher Hitchens to sign a book. If you hope to get your copy inscribed, make sure you’re on Courthouse Square tomorrow from noon to 1pm. That will be your ONLY chance to get Hitch-22 or 0
September 28, 2010 ANNOUCEMENT: Agent Christina Hogrebe to join Pages & Places’ Forums on Writing and Publishing Ms. Hogrebe is a native of Northeastern Pennsylvania who grew up on a steady diet of Anne of Green Gables and Sweet Valley Twins books, for which she was nearly laughed out of the English department at Franklin & Marshall 0
September 26, 2010 Guest Blog Selene Castrovilla: Where My Novels Come From Selene Castrovilla, author of Saved by the Music and The Girl Next Door, will participate in Pages & Places free outdoor Book Expo, reading from her work and signing copies of her books. * You can probably guess the question 0
September 22, 2010 P&P KIDS FEST: Top 10 Reasons to Come! Top Ten Reasons to come to the Pages & Places Book Festival KIDS FEST 10. Who doesn’t love face-painting? 9. Make some back-to-school clothes that no other kid will have at the “Book-to-Wear” workshop @ 2:30pm at the Mall at 0
September 21, 2010 Come Celebrate and Be Enlightened: A Pages & Places Happy Hour at Outrageous and Anthology, This Thursday Before Bob Ballard’s Talk at the Cultural Center What do Reykjavik, Oxford, Caracas, Kigali, Buenos Ares, and Scranton have in common? Well, in two days you can come learn the answer to this and other mysteries surrounding the Pages & Places Book Festival. This Thursday, September 24th, at 0
September 17, 2010 Guest Blog Mike Graziano: Does Neuroscience Explain Away God? This post is an abstract from a longer article that originally appeared on The Templeton Foundation’s website, bigquestionsonline.com.  Dr. Graziano is a neuroscientist in the Psychology Department at Princeton University; his new book is God, Soul, Mind, Brain: A Neuroscientist’s 0
September 16, 2010 Guest Blog Elizabeth Davis: Banned Books Week Banned Books Week is celebrated the last week of September every year at libraries and book stores around the country.  It is a week to reflect on the importance of the First Amendment and free access to information and ideas. 0
September 4, 2010 Guest Blog: Dr. Danielle Ofri: Health, Healing, and Literature Quick! What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Bellevue Hospital?” Well, okay, if you didn’t say “literature,” “poetry,” or “creative writing,” you wouldn’t be the only one. Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the United States, 1
August 21, 2010 Guest blog Louise W. Knight: Jane Addams: Spirit in Action Do you know someone who was born to one life and chosen to live a completely different one? This is what Jane Addams (1860-1935) did, and it is one reason I decided to write my new biography about her. What interests me most is how and why someone does this, and what she learns about herself and the world as a result. Continue reading → 1
August 1, 2010 Guest blog: Karen Blomain “A little poetry is a dangerous thing….” A little danger is a poetic thing. A little poetry is a dangerous thing. Poetry is a little dangerous. We’re all heard variations on it but in what way is poetry dangerous? When Robert Frost said, “Poetry is a way of 0
April 20, 2010 Share, Express, Engage! Calling Young Poets for P&P Poetry Contest The Pages & Places Book Festival is excited to be hosting its first annual poetry contest! Submissions are welcome from any student grades 3-11 residing in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whether in public, private, charter, or home school.  Prizes will be awarded to 0
August 20, 2009 Janie Quinn: Essential Environments: You’re Just a Big Bug Years ago I answered the phone to hear my Dad expound with great excitement about a remedy for keeping mosquitoes at bay during outdoor activities. As an avid fisherman he is often bothered by pesky bugs. The answer to his 0