Call My Body a Cautionary Tale Reading & Book Signing November 5th 6pm
Pickup available at 1726 East Passyunk Avenue
Pickup Call My Body a Cautionary Tale Reading & Book Signing November 5th 6pm – Ticket + 1 copy of Call My Body a Cautionary Tale
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1726 East Passyunk Avenue
26776412021726 East Passyunk Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19148
United States
About Call My Body a Cautionary Tale
Part magic, part real life, these stories feature unruly characters and the bodies they live in. Girls have third legs, a grieving couple gets a mail order ghost to haunt their house, a woman participates in a self-defense simulation, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE weaves together eighteen urgent, darkly humorous stories in which characters attempt to have agency over their bodies, choices, and futures in an uncertain, often unsafe world. Stories in this book have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in Best Small Fictions, and according to Kathy Fish (Wild Life: Collective Works), “while reminiscent of the work of Carmen Maria Machado, this collection comes to us from a writer of inimitable voice and vision.” This collection is part of Thirty West Publishing's 2026 Chapbook Project: Fall Cohort.
Christina Tudor is a writer living in Washington, D.C. Her fiction has been featured in CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, matchbook, The Citron Review, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and was a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow in fiction. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE is her debut collection of flash fiction. Connect with her on Instagram @christinaltudor or at www.christinatudor.com.
Avitus B(uckhaulter) Carle (she/her) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her stories have been published in a variety of places, including Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y Litmag, SoFloPoJo, Necessary Fiction, The Commuter (Electric Lit.), and elsewhere. Her work was selected for the 2025, 2024, and 2022 Best Small Fictions anthology, the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2023 and 2024, the 2022 and 2020 Best of the Net anthology, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, PEN/O. Henry Prize, and the Best Microfictions anthology.
Christina Rosso (she/they) is a queer, disabled writer and bookstore owner based outside Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE and SHE IS A BEAST. Her debut novel, THE LAST SHEAF, is forthcoming from Blackstone Publishing. She is the co-owner of A Novel Idea on Passyunk, an independent bookstore and event space, named one of the best bookstores in the region by The Philadelphia Inquirer. When she isn’t writing, working at the bookstore, or recording her podcast Hello, Sister, she reads tarot and casts spells under the full moon. Learn more at christina-rosso.com.
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