For the 2015 Salem Literary Festival, Martin will be on a panel titled "Writing the adolescent for YA and adult readers." 

For the 9th time, Frostburg State University will welcome the small and independent press community to campus for the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival. TheFestival runs October 22-24, 2015 in Frostburg, MD.

http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival/

The 9th Annual Independent Literature Festival proudly welcomes Michael GerhardMartin, winner of the 2013 James Knudsen Prize for fiction and a finalist for the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards.

Martin will read on Friday at 5:30 PM at the Indie Lit Kickoff Reading at Main StreetBooks (2 E. Main Street). Four editors introduce an author their press has published to give a reading. This year's featured authors are Michael Ratcliffe (Free State Review), Mark Brazaitis (Autumn House Press), Margaret Bashaar (Sundress Publications), andMichael Gerhard Martin (Braddock Avenue Books). Reading begins at 5:30 PM

Martin holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches writing for Babson College and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.

Easiest If I Had A Gun (Braddock Avenue Books, www.BraddockAvenueBooks.com) is his first book, described by critics as “Pennsylvania gothic.”

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