HALLOWEEN IN MAY
Shelley Marlow
Thursday, May 7, 2020
7:00pm
signs and symbols is delighted to present HALLOWEEN IN MAY, a live reading by Shelley Marlow. On this Scorpio full moon, Thursday, May 7th, 2020, Marlow will read from their new manuscript, The Wind Blew Through Like a Chorus of Ghosts, from the chapter Halloween in Edinburgh. This chapter contains a Buffy the Vampire Slayer trope, where revelers are transformed into their Halloween costumes, and for moments, the year 1620 bleeds into 2013.
shelley marlow is author of the novel Two Augusts In a Row In a Row, with Publication Studio, Portland (2015); and the art edition of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row with drawings and paintings by Marlow, with Publication Studio, Hudson and the purple London Publication Studio art edition (2017). Marlow was awarded an Acker Award for avant garde excellence in writing. For the Two Augusts In a Row In a Row book launch in NYC and London, 2015, Marlow hosted multigenerational writers and artists to perform scenes from the book. Marlow has taught creative writing workshops, and was the fiction editor of Ping Pong Magazine out of the Henry Miller Library. Marlow has read and exhibited their visual work extensively and appeared in publications including LTTR (Lesbians To The Rescue), alLuPiNiT, an environmental magazine, Drunken Boat, Zingmagazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and the Saint Petersburg Review. Marlow wrote the lyrics to the musical, UnKnot Turandot, La Mama Theater, NY. Marlow presented an interactive project, International Witch Stories in the Italian Pavilion with Oreste, for the 48th Venice Biennial.