INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP

SIFTMedia Collective presents a 4 week Intensive Screenwriting Workshop with Stephanie Malson – this Workshop is designed to support filmmakers, whether starting with an initial concept or refining a short or feature-length screenplay. Through deep analysis and communal feedback, you’ll see your idea or draft develop into a screenplay.

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Novels in Progress, ft. Roy Graham and Jake Ahlquist

Novels in Progress is a showcase for local working novelists. Free and open to the public, each event will offer a salon-style reading and conversation featuring two writers deep in the process of a long project. Light refreshments will be provided. Learn more and RSVP at bluestoop.org/events DATE: Saturday, 3/7, 3-5pm LOCATION: Parkway Central Library,

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A young playwright turns teasing in the classroom into applause in the auditorium

Illustration by Heather Franzen Rutten Second Act essay by Angela A. Bey The 100-year-old brownstone of John M. Patterson Elementary School in Philadelphia held my first-grade classroom. I remember everything vividly—dried-up Crayola markers, paint-chipped walls and photocopies of “Hooked on Phonics” workbook pages.   My peers walked in close-knit groups down the halls, and certain

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