**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive an email with Zoom meeting information the week of the event.**

Talk followed by Q&A discussion, featuring Stephen P. O'Connor author of This is No Time to Quit Drinking: Teacher Burnout and the Irish Powers (Gatekeeper Press, 2020); The Witch at Rivermouth (Merrimack Press, 2015); The Spy in the City of Books (Sons of Liberty Pub., 2011); and Smokestack Lighting (Loom Press, 2010). 

From the Publisher: 

Ah, the unfortunate Bartley Hannigan. Teacher burnout is just one of his problems. There’s also his disintegrating marriage, the inheritance of a haunted property with its uninvited bibulous guest, a psycho poet with a fatal attraction, the arrival of an Irish banshee hunter with poor personal hygiene, his sudden passion for a stripper, and eventually, the hit man on his trail. But as the gypsy said, this “sh*t-storm” will lead to either a higher plane of understanding—or sudden death. Either way, Bartley can hear his train a comin', and he's ready to jump aboard and ride the winding rails to the last stop, because he's done with the bullsh*t! Done!

About the Author
Stephen O'Connor is a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, where much of his work is set. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Massachusetts Review, Aethlon, and The Dimeshow Review. After having read that the comic novel was dead, O'Connor became indignant and spent the next three years writing This Is No Time to Quit Drinking.