Editor

Mike DelVecchia is an editor and journalist living in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The founder of Philadelphia Writers, Mike has paired expository writing with the arts during most of his life. Besides being the co-founder and former executive director of Acoustic Philly (a large musicians collective in Philadelphia that also featured his live performance of music), Mike is also the author of over thirty plays, ten of which have been produced live between 1989 and 1998. He attained a BA in Art in 1993 and an MFA in Creative Writing in 1997 from Brooklyn College. He studied writing under authors Jack Gelber and David Kiremidjian. He worked as a features writer for New York Newsday in 1994. He was the Press Agent and President of the MFA Playwrights Workshop, which he founded in the City University of New York in 1995, was the On-Site Art Director and Junior Press Agent of the Lundy's Outdoor Mural Museum 1993 and is currently the Editor-in-Chief, Founder and Press Agent of "PAW Print," which is published by his company, Philadelphia Writers. He has been the writer, producer, director, stage manager or actor of twenty three plays produced in New York City. He had retired from writing in 1998 but has returned to his vocation in 2003 in order to found "PAW Print" and Philadelphia Writers, which, respectively are a magazine and group devoted to providing publishing credits for authors promoting the arts and culture of Philadelphia through the writing of features articles, columns, opinion pieces and reviews. As an artist, Mr. DelVecchia has won the Charles Shaw Award for painting, placing first in 1988 and third in 1989. He has exhibited in the Michael Ingbar Architectural Gallery and Schulman Galleries of New York City. He was also an arts counselor at an agency working with the developmentally disabled during the 1990's.

Features:

• Magic Garden Saves Itself from Bulldozers: Isaiah Zagar Mortgages House & Starts 501 C 3
• C-Notes for Art: Shelley Spector Opens Red Dot and (re)Masters an Economy of Youth 
• Sharp LaPelle, Checkered Environment: Rodger LaPelle Hangs Art, Not Artists
• Mayor Signs Budget, Spares Most of Arts and Culture
• ENCORE AUTHOR REVIEW: Lawrence Richette's The Fault Line
• Arts and Culture Face the Mayor’s Veto
• Author Lawrence Richette's Novel, The Secret Family
• "… Except to Cop Our Losses …"  -- Philadelphia Controller Jonathan A. Saidel on the New Stadia
• Mickey Roker  The Voltan of Ortlieb's Jazzhaus 
• A.K.A. GENE SHAY
• New Yorker Cats Can't Resist -- Eric Alexander at Chris' Jazz Cafe
• Philly Folk Festival Featured Philly Fame
• Alan Magee Retrospective at Michener Museum
• Lenape National at Folk Fest
• Tom Gibbons, Bard of Barnes?

Columns:

• Restaurant Review: Valley Green Inn