UPCOMING & NEWLY RELEASED
April 2024:
April 9th 11am
THE LAUNCH OF EVENT HORIZON: STORIES OF NO TURNING BACK ON KICKSTARTER
April 13th
Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase (in person!)
RECORDED READINGS
The Funeral Singer: Agios Petros, Tinos Greece. July 2023.
“Jean”, in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, winner of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize: Free Thinking Zone, Athens, Greece’s first activist bookstore. June 2023.
The Funeral Singer: Free Thinking Zone, Athens, Greece’s first activist bookstore. June 2023.
Jean, Janus and Comic Book Realism: a trip down wormholes, bending genre, comic book realism, Nuyorican and Puerto Rican history, gentrification, erasure, fangirl astrophysics and family history. August 10th 2022 Chautauqua Institution in New York: Receiving the 2022 Janus Prize and Lecture.
AVAILABLE WORKSHOP
Watch out for wormholes: Anchored Pasts and Dynamic Duos in Graphic Storytelling.
First presented at Cornell College, Iowa in April 2023.
A workshop taught by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos on how we write & draw personal, collective & colonized histories in narratives of present and future. How to create effective comic creator partnerships. Download the pdf.
“…an inside look at the making of her own stories, her collaborations with artists, and the business side of comics.. [Stephanie] led students through carefully-planned activities to create their own stories, artwork, and “wormholes” to history that inspired and excited them. Her thoughtfulness in planning and inviting teaching style made our workshop a great success.“
Dr. Rebecca Entel
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Robert P. Dana Director of the Center for the Literary Arts
Cornell College
INTERVIEWS
Tuesday January 23rd 2024 Latina Surge:
Live on Linkedin 7:30pm-9pm Latina Surge National. Author Marathon talk with 4 Latine authors. Recording is here. Stephanie comes in at around 44 minutes. Here’s a video preview introducing you to the organization and authors.
“We will celebrate the literary works in a sequenced marathon interview, author to author, from 7:30pm to 9:15pm ET on January 23rd of published and award-winning Latine authors : Valeria Aloe – Uncolonized Latinas Paul Sangillo, Esq. – The Golden Prison Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos – Event Horizon Refugio A. Atilano – The Latino Leadership Playbook”
Back with Barney! Listen to our 2/1/22 talk about Zine100 on Kickstarter, public health, the Kickstarter rewards… For audio/podcasts visit www.storycomic.com.
StoryComic
Tuesday Oct 5th 2021 7pm EST.
My Storycomic interview with Barney is now available for listening or viewing! Click for youtube or visit the Storycomic page for Episode 111. We talk Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, 51 Solstice of WinC Magazine, DR163, finding community and connecting with editors and my new roles at Graphic Mundi and Comics Experience.
All smiles all the time with Barney!
Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 12:10pm EST. Available until April 3rd! Chat feature opens in the morning for pre-panel discussion, and live chat during and after panel. Panelist at #AWP#2021. Register here. Reading on W118. Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures. (Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, Sara Rivera, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, William Alexander, Matthew David Goodwin): In this panel, four authors from the forthcoming Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: a Latinx Anthology will present readings of short stories. These stories capture a kind of collective dreaming around the future, and what those futures—optimistic, magical, and dystopian alike—can say about our present. We’ve been here, we are here, we will be here; we share the dreams of yesterday, today, and most importantly, tomorrow. We’ll end with a discussion of the social potential of Latinx imaginaries.
- Friday, February 19th 2021 7pm EST: Book Launch for COVID Chronicles: A Comic Anthology hosted by Seminary Co-op. Guests: Jason Chatfield, Sarah Firth, Rob Kirby, Stephanie Nina Pitsirilios, and Kendra Boileau will discuss their book Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology. They will be joined in conversation by Matthew Noe.
INDUSTRY & CRAFT
Recorded Oct 11th 2023
June 14th 2023 12:30PM EST: Kids Comics Unite Crowdfunding Panel on Zoom
New York Comic Con October 2022: Kickstarting Comics in 2022 and beyond!
Thu, Oct 6, 2022 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ROOM 1C03
“In 2021 comics on Kickstarter raised over $30 million and had a 86% success rate! Join Kickstarter’s Director of Publishing and Comics Outreach, Oriana Leckert, Rocketship Entertainment CEO & Publisher, Tom Akel, creator Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos (Jean, Covid Chronicles), and RAE Comics President TJ Sterling to discuss best practices, their success and failures, and what’s next for crowd funded comics! Hosted by attorney Gamal Hennessy.”
May 20 2022: MDC Student Writers Conference, Miami Dade College. Panel.
April 2022: Barnard University class visit: “To Boldly Go: Women of Color in Speculative Literature” taught by author and professor Quincy Scott Jones. I discussed “Jean”, my and webtoon series DR163.
Panelist with fellow contributors of Speculative Fiction For Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology
KIDS COMICS UNITE:
SEPTEMBER 29TH 2021
Examining scripts-to-illustrations and ideas-to-prose via gatekeepers, I take you through collaboration types and tips, in writing for comics and prose. My way!
MAINSTREAM COMICS, DEEP DIVES & GEEK FUN
Feb 20th 2023 Graymalkin Lane Podcast: Excalibur Minus One. From Chad: “Nightcrawler arrives on Graymalkin Lane! And for us, he just means joy. And he brings with him… Amanda Sefton! Margali Szardos and the Winding Way! Belasco! Limbo! The Soulsword! We cover another of the flashback month stories with Excalibur -1, this one by IG @ wondermasons and IG @ caseyjonesart ! But first, Chad (with Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos and Anna Peppard) interview Seth Martel (the artist on Graymalkin Lane!) all about his new graphic novel, the Mare!”
Feb 2023: Chad and I talk all things family Phoenix on the Graymalkin Podcast
A Conversation About Mind Control and Sexual Assault
“(Sensitive content warning) Chad, Susan Kirtley, Jessica Baldanzi, Carrie Harris, Marcy Rockwell, and Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos analyze the portrayal of mind control used to commit sexual assault in comic books over the decades. This episode is heavy and healing.”
I reviewed a storyline in Defenders 78-80, clip shown above.
Aired July 30th 2022 I’m back on Graymalkin Lane Podcast with host Chad, and Anas Abdulhak, featuring an interview with Dan Jurgens.
Aired June 25th 2022: Graymalkin Lane Podcast with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Seth Martel, myself and host Chad.
PAST EVENTS & FESTIVALS
June 22nd 2023 18:30: Free Thinking Zone. Athens, Greece. Event Invite: https://fb.me/e/2Qw4LDDdn
Sunday May 28th 2023, 12pm-5pm: The Loisaida Festival. Look for Stephanie’s table, with her books and crafts on sale.
KXSF RADIO: FOLK LAW with Daniel Everett Friday 1/28/22 12pm-1pm EST. “Folk Law focuses on law and policy topics that affect the everyday people in our communities.” Daniel asked me some live, unscripted and provocative questions (as lawyers do!) about the ins and outs and the WHY of Zine100. Enjoyed.
Anthologies, zines and slaps are back for another round of fun tabling with PRIDA. Find me and the goods at El Barrio’s Art Space PS109 Saturday 12/4/2021 12pm-6pm.
Will be at the 16th National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 11/20/21 12pm-5pm in person! I’ll have copies of my anthologies and zines. Bronx, NY.
Visit me at Virtual Artist Alley at MexAmeriCon 2021.
- March 23rd 2021 1pm EST: SaludTues Tweetchat! I’m a guest. One Year Later: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Latinos” Just hop on the hashtag: #SaludTues at 1pm EST. HOST Salud America! Latino health equity program at UT Health San Antonio @SaludAmerica: https://twitter.com/SaludAmerica
- Feb 10th 2021 7:30pm EST: The Latino Alumni Association of Columbia University (LAACU) Book Talk, partnering with The Alumni Society. A conversation with Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos and author Paul Sangillo, Esq. Columbia University Affiliates can attend and register here.
- Thursday, February 18th 2021 7pm EST. Live Guest on Storycomic.
