Jonathan Escoffery’s debut story collection IF I SURVIVE YOU has been long-listed for the National Book Award and short-listed for the 2023 Booker Prize. Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, the novel follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami. Jonathan appears courtesy of the Key West Literary […]
Elise Hart Kipness is a television sports reporter turned thriller writer. LIGHTS OUT is based on her experience in the a high pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. Like her protagonist, she chased marquee athletes through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden and stood before glaring lights, reporting to national audiences. Kipness divides her time […]
KEY WEST SKETCHES—Writers at Mile Zero includes a treasure trove of more than sixty essays, reminiscences, musings, and poems about Key West. It features the town’s best-known writers: Lurie, Blume, Caputo, Cabot, McGuane, Beattie, Shames, Lee Smith, Frank Deford, Phyllis Rose, Glenn Frankel, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Billy Collins, and on and on.. Editor Carey […]
Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, and in The Best American Short Stories. Her most recent book ONLOOKERS is an astute […]
Lee Smith has written seventeen works of fiction. Her novel THE LAST GIRLS was a New York Times bestseller. Her latest novel SILVER ALERT, a funny and endearing story of […]
A Lively and Timely Conversation followed by a Fabulous Party The Friends Annual Gala will honor our own Key West celebrity Judy Blume, who has experienced a banner year. But […]
Speakers courtesy of The Studios of Key West where they are in residency. Allegra Hyde’s most recent work is the story collection THE LAST CATASTROPHE. “Climate fiction does not owe […]
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of eight novels. Her newest, THE LATECOMER, was a New York Times Notable Book, and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. Her previous […]
David McConnell is the author of the non-fiction book AMERICAN HONOR KILLINGS and the novels THE SILVER HEARTED, and THE FIREBRAT. In AMERICAN HONOR KILLINGS, straight and gay guys cross […]
Jeffrey Colvin is the author of the acclaimed debut novel AFRICAVILLE, which chronicles the lives of three generations against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression […]