Gregory Messina, originally from New York State, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. He first worked at Curtis Brown, Ltd. in New York where he sold the film rights for the agency’s children’s and YA books. Gregory next spent five years in Los Angeles working at a talent agency, a production company,…

Some years ago, the Cultural Association at St. Mark’s started what sparked an Open Mic culture that would soon spread all over Florence. This summer, it’s time for more! Co-hosted by writer and performance artist Marisa Garreffa, Pulpit Open Mic is a monthly event that invites you to channel and embrace your inner storyteller and…

In the coming weeks, we will be interviewing the panel from this year’s Publishing Day on 11th May 2019: Literary Agent Katharine Sands, Literary Agent Greg Messina, and Author Victoria Brownlee. If you missed Urbane Publications Director Matthew Smith, you can read his interview online now. Maisie Lawrence is a fiction editor and poet. Maisie commissions…

Nardia Plumridge is a travel and lifestyle writer who began her career in London working in magazine journalism before relocating to Florence is search of Italy’s famed ‘dolce vita’. Here she began, Lost in Florence, that has now been made into a book released through Hardie Grant.  Nardia will be in conversation with Mary Gray…

Safe Space Stories: A Writing Workshop with Paul Rozario-Falcone By Daria Radler Through the window, we hear the constant buzz of scooters and cars. Sometimes the noise dies down a little only to pick up again as another vehicle is approaching. The room is filled with a busy silence — hands that move across a…