Launch: The Best Women's Travel Writing Anthology, Volume 13

P&T Knitwear is pleased to host a reading for contibuting writers of the thirteenth volume of The Best Women's Travel Writing Anthology edited by Lavinia Spalding; Caletha Crawford, Marcia DeSanctis, Marta Hanson, Theresa Lin, & Paulette Perhach.

Doors open at 7:00pm with the reading starting closer to 7:30pm. Come early and grab a drink from the !

Tickets and books are available both eventbrite and at the door.

ABOUT THE READERS
Caletha Crawford is a veteran fashion business journalist who briefly took a major left turn into event production. As cool as it sounds, she recently realized she’s probably gotten just about as much mileage as she can from producing a major music festival in Los Angeles, featuring Snoop Dogg and Maluma. From now on, she’ll have to settle for making friends jealous with a near-constant stream of Insta-worthy travel pics.

Marcia DeSanctis is a Contributing Editor at Travel + Leisure, and writes essays and stories for Air Mail, Vogue, Town & Country, BBC Travel, Lit Hub, Lonely Planet, Roads & Kingdoms and many other publications. She wrote a New York Times bestselling book about France, 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, and has received seven Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year. Her book of essays, A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life, was published in May, 2022, and received a 2023 Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book. This is her seventh time in the Best Women’s Travel Writing anthology.

To celebrate her thirtieth birthday, Marta Hanson quit her job, packed up her apartment, and bought a one-way plane ticket to Argentina to study tango. (Yes, she eventually came back to the states, and yes, you should talk to her if you’re considering a sabbatical.) When she’s not traveling or dancing, Marta leads programs and partnerships to promote civic engagement for healthy communities and a strong democracy, currently at the Oregon Department of Justice and previously at the Stanford Women’s Community Center, among others. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and their orange cat.

Theresa Lin received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship and an Undergraduate Writing Program teaching fellowship. Her writing is forthcoming or has been featured in BOMB, Witness, carte blanche, LA Review of Books, Hyphen, Off Assignment, Oh Reader, and Racquet, among others. She is represented by Mina Hamedi of Janklow & Nesbit and teaches Creative Writing at The Cooper Union, The Center for Fiction, and 92NY. She is working on a memoir and a collection of essays.

Paulette Perhach is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her work has previously appeared in Vox, Elle, The Washington Post, Slate, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, Yoga Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hobart, and Vice. She’s the author of two multi-million-reader viral essays. Her book, Welcome to the ​Writer’s Life, was published in 2018 by Sasquatch Books, part of the Penguin Random House publishing family, and was selected as one of Poets & Writers’ Best Books for Writers. She serves writers as a coach through Powerhouse Writers, helping them figure out how to make a life and career out of being a writer. She’s also a speaker on the topics of creativity, writing, and business. ​

Housekeeping notes:

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 7:00pm, with the talk starting around 7:30pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

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