Links for Further Reading
Check out these links to other great literary art sources! Without them, I wouldn't have anything to cover in SunLit Tome or their own publications. More importantly, these websites promote reading, writing, and creativity in their own ways. I support them in keeping literary appreciation alive.
In Tampa/St. Petersburg...
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
As the third largest newspaper in the Tampa Bay area, Creative Loafing offers readers a valuable alternative to the two mainstream daily publications as well as a website that provides up-to-the-minute news, events, video, blogs, and more. CL is among the best news publications covering the local arts and entertainment scene.
Creative Pinellas
This nonprofit agency focuses on sustaining the artistic community and fostering innovation through grants, educational programs and activities, and marketing and promotion. It also publishes a magazine and podcast exploring the cultural scene and featuring local creatives.
Jobsite Theater
This independent, not-for-profit theater company is in residence at the Shimberg Playhouse at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa.
Keep St. Pete Lit
Keep St. Pete Lit celebrates and promotes greater St. Petersburg’s literary community -- past, present and future -- through arts, education, and events with a literary twist. It's a non-profit organization of readers, writers, and lovers of words who strive to bring an approachable, engaging literary component to St. Petersburg’s vibrant arts community.
Tampa Free Skool
Tampa Free Skool follows in the vein of other Free Skools across the nation and the world. It believes that true community power resides in the peoples’ unconstrained access to knowledge and education. As such, it is striving to create a decentralized network of community citizens of all ages in the Tampa Bay area who want to both teach and receive teaching by freely sharing our combined skill sets, knowledge, and information. The Skool is associated with a number of local literary and art events.
The University of Tampa
My alma mater, The University of Tampa’s strong commitment to the arts is demonstrated in its variety of degree programs and numerous on-campus opportunities for students to hone their craft. Off campus, the University's downtown location puts it in the heart of Tampa’s arts and culture experience, within walking distance of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for Performing Arts, Tampa Theatre, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Bay Times Forum, and many local galleries and performing arts venues.
Wordier Than Thou
Wordier Than Thou is a group focused on organizing fun, inspiring literary events -- open mics, author readings, workshops, and more -- to help bring together a local community of wordsmiths.
...and Beyond!
Gigantic Sequins
Proud to be a black and white print literary journal in an increasingly digital world, Gigantic Sequins releases issues every summer and winter and excerpts a select few on its website. The publication features multidisciplinary artists and creatives of all levels of experience and acclaim, and its aesthetic slants towards the abstract and layered.
NANO Fiction
NANO Fiction is a semi-annual publication with issues appearing in the spring and fall. It seeks to cultivate the genre of flash fiction by creating opportunities for emerging fiction writers to achieve national recognition through its website, print publication, and educational events.
Spectrum Culture
Spectrum Culture allows its writers to cover music, film, books, and food that interests them rather than zeroing in on what's touted as "high" art. This "indie site with big aspirations" is devoted to features and reviews of a broad media range media with an intelligent, irreverent perspective.
In Tampa/St. Petersburg...
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
As the third largest newspaper in the Tampa Bay area, Creative Loafing offers readers a valuable alternative to the two mainstream daily publications as well as a website that provides up-to-the-minute news, events, video, blogs, and more. CL is among the best news publications covering the local arts and entertainment scene.
Creative Pinellas
This nonprofit agency focuses on sustaining the artistic community and fostering innovation through grants, educational programs and activities, and marketing and promotion. It also publishes a magazine and podcast exploring the cultural scene and featuring local creatives.
Jobsite Theater
This independent, not-for-profit theater company is in residence at the Shimberg Playhouse at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa.
Keep St. Pete Lit
Keep St. Pete Lit celebrates and promotes greater St. Petersburg’s literary community -- past, present and future -- through arts, education, and events with a literary twist. It's a non-profit organization of readers, writers, and lovers of words who strive to bring an approachable, engaging literary component to St. Petersburg’s vibrant arts community.
Tampa Free Skool
Tampa Free Skool follows in the vein of other Free Skools across the nation and the world. It believes that true community power resides in the peoples’ unconstrained access to knowledge and education. As such, it is striving to create a decentralized network of community citizens of all ages in the Tampa Bay area who want to both teach and receive teaching by freely sharing our combined skill sets, knowledge, and information. The Skool is associated with a number of local literary and art events.
The University of Tampa
My alma mater, The University of Tampa’s strong commitment to the arts is demonstrated in its variety of degree programs and numerous on-campus opportunities for students to hone their craft. Off campus, the University's downtown location puts it in the heart of Tampa’s arts and culture experience, within walking distance of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for Performing Arts, Tampa Theatre, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa Bay Times Forum, and many local galleries and performing arts venues.
Wordier Than Thou
Wordier Than Thou is a group focused on organizing fun, inspiring literary events -- open mics, author readings, workshops, and more -- to help bring together a local community of wordsmiths.
...and Beyond!
Gigantic Sequins
Proud to be a black and white print literary journal in an increasingly digital world, Gigantic Sequins releases issues every summer and winter and excerpts a select few on its website. The publication features multidisciplinary artists and creatives of all levels of experience and acclaim, and its aesthetic slants towards the abstract and layered.
NANO Fiction
NANO Fiction is a semi-annual publication with issues appearing in the spring and fall. It seeks to cultivate the genre of flash fiction by creating opportunities for emerging fiction writers to achieve national recognition through its website, print publication, and educational events.
Spectrum Culture
Spectrum Culture allows its writers to cover music, film, books, and food that interests them rather than zeroing in on what's touted as "high" art. This "indie site with big aspirations" is devoted to features and reviews of a broad media range media with an intelligent, irreverent perspective.