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SUMMARY:Find Waldo 2025
DESCRIPTION:Find Waldo 2025 starts July 1st at The Haunted Book Shop in Mobile! \nWhere’s Waldo? In Mobile\, of course! Celebrating its thirteenth anniversary in July 2025\, Find Waldo Local begins at The Haunted Book Shop July 1st and ends on July 31st. Can you find all the places where Waldo is hanging out this year? \nTo join in the hide-and-seek fun\, simply pick up a “Find Waldo Local in Mobile!” stamp card at The Haunted Book Shop located at 9 S Joachim St then search for Waldo at participating businesses around downtown Mobile. With each miniature Waldo they spot\, searchers get their card stamped or signed by the participating shop. Eagle-eyed hunters can also look for Waldo’s special 2025 magnifying glass hidden inside The Haunted Book Shop! \nSeekers must turn in stamp cards to The Haunted Book Shop by July 31st. When you’ve collected at least ten different store stamps/signatures\, take them to The Haunted Book Shop to claim a Waldo sticker and a coupon for $1 off (limited to the first 125 Waldo-spotters). Those that collect store stamps or signatures at twenty or more businesses will earn entry into a grand-prize drawing for Waldo books and other prizes on August 2nd at 5pm. \nAll participants are welcome to attend the party on August 2nd and to celebrate the icon known simply as WALDO. Pick up your stamp card today and HAPPY HUNTING!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/find-waldo-2025/
LOCATION:The Haunted Book Shop\, 9 S JOACHIM ST\, MOBILE\, AL\, 36602-2707\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Call for Novella-length Fiction and Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Since January of 2019\, Sunspot Lit has accepted long-form fiction\, nonfiction and graphic novel manuscripts as well as epic poetry. Submit single works of fiction or nonfiction from 29\,001 to 49\,000 words\, graphic novels should between 51 and 120 pages\, or a single poem between 86 and 105 single-spaced pages between July 1 and July 31 here: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/open-call-for-novella-length-fiction-and-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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SUMMARY:Charles Ghigna @ Alabama Booksmith for SOUTHERN BRED
DESCRIPTION:Come meet internationally acclaimed poet Charles Ghigna as he reads from and signs his powerful new\nbook\, SOUTHERN BRED at his launch party. If you’re coming from out-of-town\, you may check out the special rate the beautiful Valley Hotel offers\nAlabama Booksmith customers (they’re just a short walk away) by clicking here. \nYou may purchase signed first editions to pick up at the event\, pick up at the store later\, or carefully\nwrapped and mailed worldwide by Clicking Here. \nSouthern Bred is a haunting\, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the reader into the heart and soul of the Deep South. Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment\, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse\, it showcases Ghigna’s southern soul and his tender\, yet piercing language\, and affirms his place as one of\nthe finest poets of our time.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/charles-ghigna-alabama-booksmith-for-southern-bred/
LOCATION:Alabama Booksmith\, 2626 19th Pl S Homewood\, AL\, 35209\, 2626 19th Pl S\, Homewood\, AL\, 35209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tuesday\, July 15 at 5:30pm at The NewSouth Bookstore: Richard Tillinghast with Night Train to Memphis
DESCRIPTION:It’s always a wonderful program when author Richard Tillinghast is our bookstore guest. His new collection of poetry\, Night Train to Memphis\, brings him to The NewSouth Bookstore again\, on Tuesday\, July 15 at 5:30pm. “All of us are in transit\,” says Tillinghast in one line of this beautiful\, luminous volume. “His poems roam and wander and find homes for us everywhere\,” observes\nanother poet\, Joe Wilkins. Now in his eighties\, Tillinghast is writing the best poetry of his life. Come meet the author and enjoy his reading and talk with your friends and fellow poetry-lovers at The NewSouth Bookstore.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/tuesday-july-15-at-530pm-at-the-newsouth-bookstore-richard-tillinghast-with-night-train-to-memphis/
LOCATION:The NewSouth Bookstore\, 105 S. Court St\, Montgomery\, 36104\, United States
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