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Madville’s 8th Anniversary Fundraiser

Madville is hosting a fall reading series this year to celebrate our Eighth Anniversary!

With Gianna Russo’s help, we are putting together a fall fundraiser. Gianna has volunteered to be our mistress of ceremonies once more this year. And further down this newsletter, there will be a link where you authors can sign up for times to read. We have decided to be a little more specific about sign-up times this year with poets getting ten minutes to read, and prose authors getting fifteen minutes to read. (See link below)
With Gianna Russo’s help, we are putting together a fall fundraiser. Gianna has volunteered to be our mistress of ceremonies once more this year.

September 10th and 17th, 2026,
we will be hosting virtual readings
by Madville authors.

Our goal this year is to raise $8888. (For our 8th Anniversary 😉

Gianna Russo will be this year’s Mistress of Ceremonies, and we’ll share the names of the authors who will be reading as we know them. We haven’t quite worked out how you sign up to attend or how we’ll collect donations, but we have a button where you can test the system if you want to donate early! 

Here are the readers we know so far:

Julie Liddell Whitehead, Gianna Russo, and Brian Petkash. 

We will update with details!

When you reserve a space, we will email a receipt and a zoom link to the event.

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Neon Moon Reading Raised $250 for Casa Juan Diego

By the Light of a Neon Moon: Poetry Out of Dance Halls, Honky Tonks, Music Halls and Clubs

Janet Lowery and Meg Spesia smile for the camera under a blue and white sign reading "Casa Juan Diego 4818 Rose Entrada"
Janet Lowery with Meg Spesia, a Catholic Worker from Chicago now working at Casa Juan Diego in Houston.

With support from the English Department at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, on Wednesday Oct 16th in the Art Gallery on campus, poet Janet Lowery hosted a reading of poetry from By the Light of a Neon Moon, the anthology of poems she edited for Madville Publishing. With the help of the Montgomery Arts Council, fiction writer Cliff Hudder, and 2011 Poet Laureate Dave Parsons, a reading from the anthology was also delivered on Thursday October 17 at Lone Star College, Montgomery campus.

By the Light of a Neon Moon: Poetry Out of Dance Halls, Honky Tonks, Music Halls and ClubsSales from the anthology at both readings amounted to $250.00, all of which was donated to Casa Juan Diego, a House of Hospitality in Houston which provides food, clothing, and shelter—both long-term and short term—to immigrants and the homeless. They accept donations of food, clothing and other items on their premises on Rose Street and online through their website.

Poets from the anthology who read at UST with Janet Lowery included Katie Hoerth,  Lesley Clinton, Winston Derden, and Dave Parsons. Poets reading at Lone Star with Dave Parsons and Janet Lowery included Houston poet Winston Derden and poet Karen Head, editor of the Atlantic Review.