FUTURE PERFECT Book Launch Celebration

Join us for an exciting in-person gathering hosted by Avalon Park Press to celebrate the launch of the fiction collection,FUTURE PERFECT! Come mingle, enjoy good vibes, and listen to excerpts read by the author, Matthew James Babcock. Enjoy live music following the reading and drinks via the Bev Truck. Check out more information about the event at www.avalonparkpress.com or @avalonparkpress.

Future Perfect is a collection of short stories exploring the complexities of human relationships and the passing of time. Each story considers milestones of life: childhood, growing up, adulthood, death. Future Perfect invites us to detach from linear time and to observe the minute and grand moments all at once.

Matthew James Babcock is the author of Four Tales of Troubled Love (fiction), Heterodoxologies (creative nonfiction), Points of Reference (poetry), Strange Terrain (poetry), Hidden Motion (poetry), and Private Fire: The Ecopoetry and Prose of Robert Francis (criticism). His awards include the Juxtaprose Poetry Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, the AML Poetry Award, the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Short Fiction, and Winner of Press 53’s Open Awards Anthology Prize for his novella, “He Wanted to be a Cartoonist for The New Yorker.” He recently served as Arthur Dolsen Visiting Writer at Idaho State University.

Don’t miss out on the fun and inspiration—see you there!