7th Annual Bronx Book Festival

Fordham Plaza Fordham Plaza, The Bronx, New York, United States

Founded and organized by Saraciea J Fennell (WFYP, January 2020) the Bronx Book Festival is a free, public event with an impressive line-up of authors celebrating books. They have exclusive TBIR programming lined up for this year's festival, so RSVP to meet bestselling authors from the Boogie Down and beyond! Colson Whitehead will attend as […]

Free

Who Am I: The Music and Meaning of Stream-of-Consciousness with Angelo D’Amato

Cambridge Center for Adult Education 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

In this course, led by Angelo D'Amato (Fiction, June 2020), will look at William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves,” and excerpts from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake,” to understand how this technique challenges how we make meaning of the world, and how we can harness it to create a […]

$250

MFA Summer Reading Series: All Lesley Reads Visitor Bernardo Cubria

Online Zoom Event

Join the Lesley MFA community for the All Lesley Reads event with actor, director, playwright, and screenwriter Bernardo Cubria. Bernardo's accomplishments are vast and wide in both stage and screen. He has worked as actor, writer, and editor in film, TV and stage. Bernardo’s plays have been nominated for and won major theater awards, including […]

Free

Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series: Talking Craft in YA

Online Zoom Event

PANELISTS: Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013), Chris Lynch (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty), Sara Farizan (WFYP, January 2012), and Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty). Moderator: Sara Zarr (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty)

Free

Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Graduating Students

Online Zoom Event

Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Ana Guigui (WSS), McKensi Pascall (WSS), William Galvani (Nonfiction), Graham Jones (WFYP), and Tyler Pruett (Poetry).

Free

Introduction to Book Arts: Make Your Own Chapbook with Frances Donovan

Create Art in Community 11A Corinth St, Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States

Books aren't just blocks of text. They're also physical objects, and in some cases they become art themselves. Hand-sewn chapbooks (from "cheap-book") are a simple and timeless way to preserve words and even art. Join Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) and peruse a collection of chapbooks that show the various techniques used to make them. […]

$45