Laura Shovan is a children’s author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. She has worked as an editor of literary journals and poetry anthologies. Laura's debut novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, won several awards, including NCTE Notable Verse Novel. Her novel Takedown was selected for Junior Library Guild, PJ Our Way, and the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project. Her most recent work is Sydney Taylor Notable A Place at the Table, co-written with Saadia Faruqi.
for the LOVE...vol. 2 (excerpt)
See more information about for the LOVE...vol. 2 (excerpt)Year: 2014
Silent Teardrops (excerpt)
See more information about Silent Teardrops (excerpt)Year: 2010 Revised edition
Enoch Pratt Light Street Writers Exchange Reading
On January 25, 2021, I read several poems as part of the Enoch Pratt Light Street Writers Exchange annual reading. It was super fun and I enjoyed sharing my work with an audience of 70+ people.
Check out https://www.jennifernshannon.com/events to view the entire reading.
Check out https://www.jennifernshannon.com/events to view the entire reading.
Year: 2021
Details: 6:58
Reading "Last Sermon"
In 2018, I had the pleasure of reading one of my previously published short stories titled "Last Sermon" in Pittsburgh, PA. It was an honor to be invited by my fellow writers from the Hour After Happy Hour writers group to present my work at their semi-annual event.
"Last Sermon" was first published in Deep South Magazine in 2015: http://deepsouthmag.com/2015/08/21/last-sermon/
"Last Sermon" was first published in Deep South Magazine in 2015: http://deepsouthmag.com/2015/08/21/last-sermon/
Year: 2018
Details: 20:38
"Tender" virtual reading
I had three poems published in the anthology "tender, a literary anthology and book of spells: evidence." I wrote the poems while I was living in Pittsburgh, PA (2015-2018) and was able to do an in-person reading prior to the pandemic.
Here, I am sharing my three poems from the book, during our first virtual reading that was presented by White Whale Bookstore on July 24, 2020.
Here, I am sharing my three poems from the book, during our first virtual reading that was presented by White Whale Bookstore on July 24, 2020.
Year: 2020
Details: 4:22