Hannah Grieco & Samuel Ashworth: Craft Fight!

Name: Hannah Grieco & Samuel Ashworth: Craft Fight!
Start: 2025-09-23T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-23T20:30:00-04:00
Location: The Head & The Hand Books

Schedule

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Head & The Hand Books | Philadelphia, PA

It's a literary cage match---short stories vs. novels!---with DC-based authors Hannah Grieco and Samuel Ashworth at H&H Books.
About this Event

It's a literary (but not literal) throwdown at H&H Books when debut authors Samuel Ashworth (THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY) and Hannah Grieco (FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT: STORIES) face off. Everyone wins!

Hannah and Sam will discuss their respective debuts and writing crafts on Tuesday, September 23 at 7 PM at H&H Books. Both of their books will be for sale and are also available to preorder at the links above. Hannah and Sam will answer audience questions and sign their books after their conversation has concluded.

This is a free event, but registration is highly recommended. Questions? Email [email protected].

About the Authors:

Hannah Grieco's debut short story collection First Kicking, Then Not comes out August 12 from Stanchion. She teaches writing at Marymount University, writes a literary column for Washington City Paper, and works as a freelance editor and book coach. Find her online at www.hgrieco.com and on most social media @writesloud, and read more about Hannah on our website.

Samuel Ashworth is a professor of creative writing at George Washington University and a former columnist at The Rumpus. A two-time ghostwriter, The Death and Life of August Sweeney is his first novel. Find him online at www.samuelashworth.com and on Instagram @samuel.b.ashworth, and read more about Sam's work on our website.

About Hannah's book:

A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another abandons her children at Starbucks. introduces these women and many more, all of whom are hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.

The 15 works of short fiction in Hannah Grieco's captivating debut collection act as a mirror: Who looks back? Who do you want to see?

About Sam's book:

Legendary chef has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died. As she digs deeper into his body, everything that can go wrong, does, because August Sweeney isn't about to let a little thing like death stop him from raising hell.