Date & Time
7:30pm EDT - 10:00pm EDT
About This Event
JOIN US for the OPENING NIGHT of the 2026 Del Shores Foundation Writers Festival, Friday, May 8, 7:30pm. Hosted by Del Shores & Emerson Collins.
All DSF Writers Festival events are FREE and open to the public, registration for each reading and panel is required.
If you can afford to support our work and live art, a $30 donation is suggested.
Presented by The Red Ribbon Charitable Foundation. Hosted at Pensacola Little Theatre with Stamped Film Festival.
The evening begins with a reading of the winning DSF Writers Search Short Film DO YOU TAKE THIS...? by Eric Gustafson. The cast features: J.B. Cole, Ben Haupt, SaraBeth Mowad, Ashley Simmons, Nathan Simmons, Nathan Toepfer & Lendsey Von Krueger.
Followed by a screening of previous winner Will Mettlach's short SMOKE BREAKS, produced by Films by Calliope.
The evening concludes with "ONE-ON-ONE with PETER PAIGE" as Del sits down for a fun and free-wheeling chat with the Queer As Folk star and co-creator of the long-running series The Fosters & Good Trouble.
There will be a brief intermission.
View the other readings and panels for the full weekend schedule HERE.
About This Event
JOIN US for the OPENING NIGHT of the 2026 Del Shores Foundation Writers Festival, Friday, May 8, 7:30pm. Hosted by Del Shores & Emerson Collins.
All DSF Writers Festival events are FREE and open to the public, registration for each reading and panel is required.
If you can afford to support our work and live art, a $30 donation is suggested.
Presented by The Red Ribbon Charitable Foundation. Hosted at Pensacola Little Theatre with Stamped Film Festival.
The evening begins with a reading of the winning DSF Writers Search Short Film DO YOU TAKE THIS...? by Eric Gustafson. The cast features: J.B. Cole, Ben Haupt, SaraBeth Mowad, Ashley Simmons, Nathan Simmons, Nathan Toepfer & Lendsey Von Krueger.
Followed by a screening of previous winner Will Mettlach's short SMOKE BREAKS, produced by Films by Calliope.
The evening concludes with "ONE-ON-ONE with PETER PAIGE" as Del sits down for a fun and free-wheeling chat with the Queer As Folk star and co-creator of the long-running series The Fosters & Good Trouble.
There will be a brief intermission.
View the other readings and panels for the full weekend schedule HERE.
Date & Time
7:30pm EDT - 10:00pm EDT