SunLit Crawl — A Pub Crawl with Literature

We’re taking literature to the streets – again! The highly successful SunLit Crawl returns with more exciting chapters in our moveable literary feast. The audience migrates among several downtown coffee shops, restaurants, and bars to hear authors read from their works and enjoy literary libations and metaphorical meals.

From the Foreword opening party, through the various Chapters, and the Epilogue closing party, it’s a night of letters and good times. You choose your own beginning, middle, and ending. Readers include such favorites as Sterling Watson, Lori Roy, Don Bruns, Lee Irby, members of the Horror Writers Association and Keep St. Pete Lit. FREE, but you are responsible for your own bar tab!

Sponsored by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. 100+ bookstores. Paradise.

VENUES

WINE MADONNA
111 2nd Avenue NE

Foreword Before Party — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The story begins at the sophisticated uptown Wine Madonna wine bar with literary vintages, and a night ripe with possibilities. Sip poetic wines and get in the mood for literary revelry. From here, you decide what the story will be.

KINGS STREET FOOD COUNTER
937 Central Avenue

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Jeff Strand, author of Pressure, I Have a Bad Feeling About This, and A Bad Day for Voodoo

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
K.L. Nappier, author of the Full Wolf Moon trilogy, Strange Eight, and Bitten.

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Brad Preston, author of Blood Trail.

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Sally Bosco, author of Cellar Door, The Werecat Chronicles, and Cevin’s Deadly Sin.

GENERO COFFEE COMPANY
1047 Central Avenue

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Sterling Watson, author of Suitcase City, Sweet Dream Baby, and The Calling

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Lori Roy, author of Let Me Die in His Footsteps and Until She Comes Home


Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Sterling Watson, author of Suitcase City, Sweet Dream Baby, and The Calling

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Lori Roy, author of Let Me Die in His Footsteps and Until She Comes Home

THE AMSTERDAM
1049 Central Ave.

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Lee Irby, author of The Up and Up and Seven Thousand Clams

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Don Bruns, author of Stuff to Die For and Stuff Dreams are Made Of

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Lee Irby, author of The Up and Up and Seven Thousand Clams

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Don Bruns, author of Stuff to Die For and Stuff Dreams are Made Of 

BODEGA ON CENTRAL
1120 Central Avenue

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Barbara Riddle, author of The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke
 
Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Jon Kile, author of The Grandfather Clock, and Nathan Van Coops, author of In Times Like These and The Chronothon

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Matthew Jackson, author of St. Patrick's Pub Poetry

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Maureen McDole, author of Longing for the Deep End, and recipient of St. Petersburg Arts Alliance 2016 MUSE Award for Literary Arts

OLD KEY WEST BAR & GRILL
2451 Central Avenue

Epilogue After Party — 9 p.m.
It all ends in a wild Key West bar. What a tale to tell! Enjoy a night cap after your literary evening or party into the night. Your choice.

Wednesday, March 9
6  - 10 p.m.
Various venues in the Downtown, Edge, and Central Arts Districts
Free, but you're responsible for your own bar tab.

Contact:  T. Allan Smith - 727-365-3344, floridabookfair2@gmail.com

SunLit Crawl - A Pub Crawl with Literature

Four dead writers. Seven living writers. Love. Hate. Life. Death. Hilarious laughter. Here’s where literature meets the street. It’s a moveable feast and a traveling circus complete with Rawlings, Hurston, Kerouac, Hemingway, and seven local writers sharing their pursuit of happiness, self-expression, and mad adventure at an avant garde coffee shop, an authentic Cuban restaurant, and a favorite local micro brewery.  SunLit Crawl drink specials at each venue.

Foreword: It all begins at a sophisticated uptown wine bar with literary vintages.
Epilogue: It all ends in a Key West bar with Beat poetry and jazz. What a tale to tell.

Produced by Keep St. Pete Lit and Venue Theatre Collective and Actors Studio. Sponsored by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair.

Wednesday, March 11
6 p.m.


WINE MADONNA
111 2nd Avenue NE

Foreword Before Party — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sip poetic wines and get in the mood for literary revelry


GENERO COFFEE COMPANY
1047 Central Avenue

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Matthew Jackson: Ode to the art of the proper pub crawl.

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Jack Kerouac: The road ended in St. Petersburg but the Beat king’s legacy lives on. Portrayed by Robert Gilligan

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Patrick J.F.X. Smith: Aventura Loco, a mad Mexican adventure in the manner of Kerouac but very, very different.

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Zora Neale Hurston: The toast of the Harlem Renaissance still tells the tales of her Florida home. Portrayed by Nyela Hope


BODEGA
1120 Central Avenue

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Maureen McDole: Poetic musing about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Ernest Hemingway: The old bard of Key West and Havana at his poignant and macho best. Portrayed by John M. Lowe

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Cathy Salustri, Jon Kile, and Shelly Wilson: "Three Bars"  — Three Authors. Three Chapters. Many bad decisions.

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Jack Kerouac: The road ended in St. Petersburg but the Beat king’s legacy lives on. Portrayed by Robert Gilligan


GREEN BENCH BREWERY
1133 Baum Avenue North

Chapter 1 — 7 p.m.
Cathy Salustri, Jon Kile, and Shelly Wilson: "Three Bars"  — Three Authors. Three Chapters. Many bad decisions.

Chapter 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The hard-drinking, Pulitzer-winning scribe of the Big Scrub has a soft side, too. Portrayed by Deanna Scott.

Chapter 3 — 8 p.m.
Gloria Muñoz: Internal and external spaces. Endangerment of culture and expression

Chapter 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Ernest Hemingway: The old bard of Key West and Havana at his poignant and macho best. Portrayed by John M. Lowe


OLD KEY WEST BAR & GRILL
2451 Central Avenue

Epilogue After Party — 9 p.m.
Beat era poetry and jazz into the night.

Free Admission
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