Charm City Spec

Twitter account for Charm City Spec, a reading series for speculative fiction in Baltimore. Come listen to the possibilities!

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Don't forget! Charm City Spec is this Saturday, with a crackerjack team of authors! Come join us, 6:30 pm June 7th, 2025, on the patio behind the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore! It's free, and everyone is welcome!

It's going to be an excellent evening!

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NEW YEAR NEW YOU is the vital new anthology you need to hear right now! Come to CHARM CITY SPEC and hear these authors ring out their truths!

LIVE, one night only! Combining their awesome powers: Allison Pottern, Brigitte Winter, Catherine Castellani! All are welcome!

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All are welcome—
#amreading #scifi #fantasy #horror @BaltimoreSciFi @birdinhandcafe

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Charm City Spec is coming up! Don't miss a free evening of live readings, audience Q&A, a skit(?), door prizes, signings, and healthy human interaction! Always free, and everyone is welcome! #baltimoremeetup #AmReading #scifi #fantasy #horror @BaltimoreSciFi

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Eventbrite link:
https://t.co/owKY4E2pGg

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The first Charm City Spec of the new year is upon us! Make a plan now to join us as our redoubtable group of writers takes the stage! Come hear your next favorite read! #BaltimoreEvents #amreading #scifi #fantasy #horror #allthegoodstuff

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@ambernoelle Went to retweet this for Amber, but for some reason can not do that from this account(?) Not sure why. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But you all should read this! This is gonna be awesome!

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Charm City Spec alumna Amy Bernstein has a new book out—
https://t.co/4ubkclAzkr

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All-killer no-filler lineup reading at Charm City Spec TONIGHT:
Shannon Robinson, Christiane Knight, David Simmons, Tim Paggi
Come pet our space rat!
@birdinhandcafe @BaltimoreSciFi #AmReading #HometownWriters #Horror #fantasty #younameit

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Christiane Knight reads Charm City Spec!

Come hear her read from her goosebump-inducing novel A THIRD KIND OF MADNESS set in a strangely familiar Fae-infused Baltimore! 6:30pm Saturday 12/7, this is the historic first-ever ALL-BALTIMORE edition of Charm City Spec! Don't miss it!

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk." ~ Jane Kenyon

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Local hero Shannon Robinson reads at the next Charm City Spec! Come hear her read from her arresting and award-winning collection The Ill-Fitting Skin, this Saturday night, among an excellent crop of hometown authors! 6:30pm Dec 7th, at the Bird in Hand Cafe, 11E 33rd St.

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David Simmons reads the next Charm City Spec! Come out and hear him, Saturday December 7th, 6:30pm at the Bird in Hand Cafe, with a stellar group of ALL-BALTIMORE writers! It's going to be a great night!
@TheIvyBookshop #amReading #BaltimoreEvents

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As always, everyone is welcome and attendance is free! It's the best deal of the holiday season!

On the program:

Shannon Robinson
David Simmons
Christiane Knight
Tim Paggi

Saturday 12/7/2024, at the Bird in Hand Cafe and Bookstore, 11 East 33rd Street in Baltimore, 6:30 PM!

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Come shake off the holiday shopping blues with a night of local authors reading their (decidedly not-holiday-related) truths!

Charm City Spec rises again with a program of ALL-BALTIMORE, ALL-SPEC, and ALL-AMAZING readings! Also door prizes, audience Q&A, libations, and more!

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Congratulations to absolutely amazing writer and CCS alumnus Vajra Chandrasekera!!

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Incredible news to get while I'm so far from home: THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has won the 2024 Ignyte Award! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for it, and to the wonderful folks who make the Ignytes work, and many congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

[Mantis Shrimp Diplomacy @kjy1066]

Sent out a supplemental newsletter with an unaccepted essay on Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, and their influence over me

https://t.co/THhKGa3EH6

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6:30 PM Saturday, December 7th, at the Bird in Hand Cafe, 11 E 33RD St, Baltimore, MD 21218. Everyone is welcome!

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We're big fans of anything published by Whiskey Tit!

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"This is the netherworld of the uncanny, and I think it’s definitive of the moment we’re living in now, where the past both promises and threatens to return, while the future always seems just out of reach, or else it seems like it’s already arrived and somehow we’ve missed it."

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Looking forward to reading this!