Virtual REVELS Dec. 16!

Our virtual party this year features games, prizes, flash fiction and drink recipes to enjoy from the comfort of home!

This season, members are invited to our Winter Revels, a free and entirely virtual way to celebrate with your mystery community. With chances to submit flash fiction, submit mystery-inspired drinks recipes and play games, the event holds lots to reward you for a long year!

To join: This virtual event will be streamed via Facebook Live. Make sure you follow MWA-New York on Facebook or you may not catch the stream.

Ahead of the event, we are also seeking your creative participation by Dec. 7 for:

• mystery-themed cocktails
• playing and solving some fiendish games
• flash fiction (100 words max)
• prize donations such as eBooks

Send us your theme cocktails: What would your favorite fictional sleuth (or villain) drink? Whether in a story you’ve written, or in a favorite read of yours, let us know what they’d imbibe! Send us the recipe, and include a photo of the drink if you can. We’ll put several of them together in a MWA Revels Drink Booklet, and our mixologist for this event, Sharon Linnéa (author of “The Bartender’s Guide to Murder” series) will demonstrate how to make several of them during the festivities. Virgin cocktail recipes happily accepted. Send your entry to revels@mwany.org with the subject line Revels Drink by Dec. 7. More details here. Cheers!

Play some reindeer games: How trivial is your mind? Find out with these five trivia games designed especially for MWA-NY by member Erik Arneson (also the author of “How to Host a Game Night”). Match classic novels to their publication dates! Decipher the titles of recent Edgar winners. Deduce which answers are lies in the Half Truth round. Sort the Edgar nominees from presidential assassins and pro wrestlers! And try your hand at identifying television cops and detectives! Play ahead of the event by visiting this link. Send us your answers by Dec. 7 to revels@mwany.org. All correct entries will be entered in a raffle for donated eBooks. (The more points you earn, the more entries you get!)

Submit your flash fiction!: We are accepting entries of no more than 100 words in response to the prompt: “Marley was dead.” Selected pieces will be read aloud by our host, MWA New York’s own Joseph Goodrich. Send to revels@mwany.org by Dec. 7.

Treat someone to a book!: Please consider donating eBooks or other easy-to-send raffle prizes. Let us know at revels@mwany.org. We will select winners’ names at Revels so you can handle fulfillment by email.