# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Nevermore: A Haunted Literary Reading (AWP Offsite Event)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 07:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an evening of haunted fiction, in the theater of the (reputedly) haunted Lord Baltimore Hotel, just blocks from where Edgar Allen Poe is buried. Candles flicker, masquerade masks are donned, Poe’s Raven makes an appearance, all while we listen to the words of celebrated writers of speculative, ghostly, and haunted prose: Carmen Maria Machado, Sequoia Nagamatsu, GennaRose Nethercott, and Matthew Lansburgh. Hosted by writers Joy Baglio and Jennifer Pullen. Sponsored by Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop.


Featured Authors


MATTHEW LANSBURGH’s collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared in journals such as One Story, VQR, and New England Review, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series and the Pushcart Prize series. Matthew received his MFA from NYU and has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, and Yaddo.


GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a short story collection, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart—winner of the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the National Poetry Series— and as a folklorist, she serves as the head writer behind the podcast Lore. Nethercott’s work has been dubbed best-of-the-year by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Independent Review of Books, BookPage, and more—and she spends her time touring widely, performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow). She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.


JENNIFER PULLEN (co-host) holds a PhD from Ohio University. Her books include Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology from Bloomsbury Academic, the first and only comprehensive history of fantasy and craft guide, A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue, winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award, and Beastly: An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales from Lanternfish Press. Her debut novel, Once Upon a Burning World, will be released in 2027 by Meerkat Press. She grew up running wild in the forests of Washington State but has since been sufficiently domesticated to become an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University.


JOY DEVA BAGLIO (co-host) is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, a literary arts organization offering writing workshops & literary community, based in Northampton MA and virtually. Her short stories are widely published in journals such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, American Short Fiction, and Tin House, among others. She’s received scholarships, fellowships, grants, and residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, The Kerouac Project, The Porches, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Sewanee Writers Conference, among others. She lives in Northampton MA, where she can also be found going on long runs, playing the bagpipes, & searching for interdimensional doorways.


CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, among others. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.


SEQUOIA NAGAMATSU is the author of New York Times Editors' Choice and national bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK, and the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE.  He has been named a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Award and Locus Award, shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award in addition to fellowship support from the Breadloaf Writers Conference and the U.S. Embassy. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He teaches creative writing at St. Olaf College and also serves as a faculty mentor at the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA based at Pacific Lutheran University.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, business, conferences, parties, entertainment, performances, music, nonprofit, theatre, lgbt-pride
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 49

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/event-details/nevermore-a-haunted-literary-reading?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=baltimore-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lord Baltimore Hotel
- **lat**: 39.289742907231
- **long**: -76.616120886717
- **full address**: Lord Baltimore Hotel, Lord Baltimore, W Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (https://allevents.in/org/pioneer-valley-writers-workshop/12791156)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lord Baltimore Hotel, Lord Baltimore, W Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, business, conferences, parties, entertainment, performances, music, nonprofit, theatre, lgbt-pride
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Nevermore: A Haunted Literary Reading (AWP Offsite Event) ?
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