Great Middle Grade Reads with Chris Lynch
2024-03-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Books of Wonder, 42 West 17th Street, New York City, New York, 10011, United States
Join Books of Wonder in-store to discover these terrific new titles that are full of heart, courage, and self-discovery (and dogs and chocolate chip cookies!)!

Stop in to check out:

Walkin’ the Dog by CHRIS LYNCH (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty). When Louis, a laid-back homeschooled boy accidentally starts a dog-walking business, he learns how to stop being a lone wolf and be part of a pack, and what it really means to be a friend — from man’s best friend.

Maybe It’s a Sign by E. L. SHEN. After her father passes away, Freya starts looking for signs from him everywhere. When she sees two lucky red birds on the way to a music lesson, she takes it as him showing his approval that she’s still practicing. But when she’s assigned a project in home ec class and discovers that she loves baking even more than music, she no longer sees any signs from him. With the help of family an a new friend, Freya learns that to be her own person, she might just have to make her own luck.

The World Divided by Piper by CAELA CARTER. Despite being diagnosed with early-onset puberty, eleven-year-old Piper is way too busy to grow up. So, when her doctor decides it’s time for her treatment to end, Piper’s eyes are opened to a completely new world, one that’s way more difficult. How is she supposed to balance the new experiences of puberty, studying for the decathlon, and growing up? Maybe, with a little friendship and a lot of female solidarity, Piper will be able to bring her world back together.

Lost Kites and and Other Treasures by CATHY CARR. Twelve-year-old Franny thinks more often than she would like of the charismatic, troubled mom who left her years ago, along the unaccountable things Mom did while she was still in the picture. Life with Nana is safe and secure, and Franny’s innovative art projects keep her company. But when Nana has an accident and Franny’s estranged uncle comes home to help out for a while, Franny has to reach deep down to come to terms with the discoveries she makes about her mother — and herself.

Miracle by KAREN S. CHOW. Amie has spent her life perfectly in tune with Ba-ba, her father, especially since she plays the violin, his favorite instrument. But after Ba-ba dies, Amie feels distanced from everyone close to her, like her mother and her best friends. More devastating still, she loses her ability to play the violin. Will Amie ever find her way back to the music she once loved?

Jumpstart Your Memoir! A Writing Workshop with Celia Jeffries
2024-03-17 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Joanne Rossman’s Home, 6 Birch Street, Roslindale, Massachusetts, 02131, United States
Course Description:

Our wonderful, complex lives can be difficult to capture when writing a memoir. What to include? What to leave out? Where to start? Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction, 2008) is a writer, editor and memoir workshop leader who can help you explore those questions. Become one of the lucky writers to begin this journey with her in the comfort of Joanne’s home in Roslindale.

Lyz Lenz presents This American Ex-Wife
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55408, United States
Join Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) at Magers & Quinn Booksellers as she presents This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life in conversation with Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl.

Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz is one such woman whose life fell apart after she reached a breaking point in her twelve-year marriage. But she refused to take part in that tired narrative and decided to flip the script on divorce.

In this exuberant and unapologetic book, Lenz makes an argument for the advantages of getting divorced, framing it as a practical and effective solution for women to take back the power they are owed. Weaving reportage with sociological research and literature with popular culture along with personal stories of coming together and breaking up, Lenz creates a kaleidoscopic and poignant portrait of American marriage today. She argues that the mechanisms of American power, justice, love, and gender equality remain deeply flawed, and that marriage, like any other cultural institution, is due for a reckoning. A raucous argument for acceptance, solidarity, and collective female refusal, This American Ex-Wife takes readers on a riveting ride—while pointing us all toward a life that is a little more free.

Masks are required for this event.

Lyz Lenz is a journalist and the author of God Land and Belabored. She has written for Insider, The New York Times, Marie Claire, and The Washington Post. Lenz also writes the newsletter Men Yell at Me about the intersection of politics and personhood in red-state America. She lives in Iowa with her two kids.

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is one of the most awarded magazine writers in the country, with six James Beard Award wins (and 15 nominations)-the so-called Oscars of food world-and another 6 CRMAs, known as the Pulitzers of magazines. She grew up in New York City, little aware of her destiny: to write about the quirks and passions, the foods and cocktails, the people and places of Minnesota. She started her work life as a 13-year-old restaurant dishwasher and, after coming to Minnesota to attend Carleton College, became City Pages’ restaurant critic in 1997. Since then she has worked as a staff writer, columnist, and critic at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Delta Sky, Minnesota Monthly, Gourmet, Saveur, Food & Wine, Experience Life, Bon Appétit, and other publications. For eight years she hosted a radio show on WCCO called “Off the Menu,” and she is a regular guest on Minnesota Public Radio. She lives in south Minneapolis with a dog the size of a cat, a cat the size of a cat, and two children who are much bigger than cats and want to be left out of it. She would like everyone to know that Minneapolis is one of the best places in the world, as long as you have a lot of pairs of boots and love snow, which she does.

Eileen Cleary, Anne Pluto, Linda Carney-Goodrich & Gloria Monaghan at Brookline Booksmith
2024-03-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 02446-2908, United States
Join Brookline Booksmith for an evening of poetry with Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016), Anne Pluto, Linda Carney-Goodrich, & Gloria Monaghan.

This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith.

Eileen Cleary (she/her) is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024), 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She co-edited the anthology ‘ Voices Amidst the Virus’ which was the featured text at the 2021 MSU Filmetry Festival. Cleary founded and edits the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and curates the Lily Poetry Salon. A multi-pushcart nominee, her work is published widely in journals and anthologies.

Anne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn, NY before it was cool. She is professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where she is the artistic director of the Oxford Street Players. She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a. member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company from 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review/Nixes Mate Books. Her most recent publications are full length collections: The Deepest Part of Dark, Unlikely Stories Press, NOLA, 2020 and How Many Miles to Babylon?, Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023.

Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her work has appeared in journals such as spoKe10, Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Nixes Mate Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Literary Mama, Muddy River Poetry Review, Wordgathering Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Gyroscope Review, and City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems. Her work has been translated in Spanish and published in Columbia and Mexico. Several of her poems have been displayed on the walls at Boston City Hall as part of the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park. She also owns and operates Home Scholars of Boston, through which she offers small classes, private tutoring, and educational consulting. Her one person shows include The Secret Childhood Diary of a Welfare Mother and My Life in Barbie. Dot Girl is her first collection of poetry.

Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published six collections of poetry. The most recent book, Cormorant on the Strand, was published by Lily Poetry Review in 2023. Her poems have appeared in Nixes Mate, NPR, Poem-a-Day, Lily Poetry Review, Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Griffin Prize. She recently completed a film on painter, Nancy Ellen Craig, which was accepted into the 2023 Provincetown Film Festival.

Project Management for Poets and Writers, with Michael Mercurio
2024-03-23 09:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | The Valley’s Literary Arts Studio, 221 Pine St., Studio #359, Florence, Massachusetts, 01062, United States
Any project can be daunting at the start. Some projects are still daunting in the middle, especially when they have a lot of moving parts — or shifting scenes! So how do you make sure that your writing stays on track towards your goal? Figuring out a project management plan can set you up for success and can make even the biggest projects seem less unwieldy and intimidating. This workshop will walk you through the process of setting “SMART” goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound), “chunking out” your project into manageable pieces, setting a realistic timeline, and sustaining all of this work with the development of good habits. You’ll also look at some fantastic project management tools, both analog and digital, that you may choose to use in support of your project. Workshop attendees should be prepared to talk about a project they’re finding difficult to begin or one already in process that they need help organizing and managing. In-person/Hybrid.

Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly Amherst Poetry Festival) and is the associate editor of the Naugatuck River Review. A graduate of the Lesley University low-res MFA program, his poetry has been published in Rust + Moth, Crab Creek Review, and The Indianapolis Review, and is forthcoming in Sugar House Review and Palette Poetry. Michael also has had critical reviews published in The Lily Poetry Review.

This event will also be available for online participants.

Lisa Robinson -- GIFTS FROM GEORGIA'S GARDEN at Newtonville Books
2024-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd, Newton, Massachusetts, 02459-1972, United States
Join Newtonville Books to celebrate the launch of local author Lisa Robinson’s (WFYP, June 2011) latest book, Gifts from Georgia’s Garden.

Cambridge Common Readers: Inaugural Book Club Event with Tracey Baptiste
2024-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Cambridge Common Writers for the first meeting of our new Book Club! This inaugural event will be hosted by Tracey Baptiste (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty) and will discuss How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown.

Participants are encouraged to read the book prior to the event. There is no expectation to attend every meeting–come and go as you please! This event will be followed by half an hour of open discussion.

Reading at Western Carolina University with Lyz Lenz
2024-04-02 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | A.K. Hinds University Center, 245 Memorial Drive, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 28723, United States
Join Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) at Western Carolina University for a reading from This Ex-American Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life.

A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz.

The Making of a Picture Book: From Concept to Completion with Deborah Sosin
2024-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Learn about the process of publishing Charlotte and the Quiet Place and discuss the interaction between art and words with Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction, January 2015).

Beyond the Book with Julie Wittes Schlack
2024-04-06 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, Massachusetts, 01060, United States
Books and journals are not the only way for writers to get their words out into the larger world. In this panel discussion at the 2024 WriteAngles Conference, authors will explore other means of sharing your stories. What are the unique strengths and requirements of formats like podcasts, fan fiction sites, story slams, and songs? And what resources are out there to help you enter those arenas?

Julie Schlack (Nonfiction, June 2013) – Moderator

Nerissa Nields

Lyrical Faith

Nicole Young-Martin

Author Talk: Shari Caplan - Exhibitionist
2024-04-11 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Jamaica Plain Public Library, 30 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 02130, United States
In Exhibitionist by Shari Caplan (Poetry, June 2014), the reader is invited to explore poems as installation; in this museum, the personal and the persona poem variously expose and mask aspects of the speaker as she probes her bisexuality, her evolution into motherhood, and how our relationships to art and desire are linked. Drawing from painting, performance art, theater, and literature, these poems, and the collages which serve as landing spots, deal thematically with the body treated as object versus whole human, how our gaze shapes our lives through desire, and how much an artist is expected to expose and expunge of themselves for the audience’s catharsis.

“Enthralled by the luscious-articulate, along with the minds of these poems we plunge. Shari Caplan’s Exhibitionist uplifts my own personal belief that mind and body together conduct themselves as sensuous parallels. These are poems that defy boundaries, delight in upending all those numbing norms, and show us that the paths to pleasure, intellectual and corporeal, meet at the juncture of poetic sublime. I thank Caplan for taking me there and for bringing me back.”– Cate Marvin, author of Event Horizon and Oracle

Shari Caplan (she/her) is a poet, actor, and event producer with a passion for enlivening our collective imaginative potential. She’s the author of “Exhibitionist” (Lily Poetry Review Books, Paul Nemser Prize Winner 2024), “The Red Shoes; a Phantasmagoric Ballet on Paper,” (Lambhouse Books, 2023), and “Advice from a Siren” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). A wearer of many tophats, she has produced and performed in “The Poetry Circus,” “The Fairy Tale Poetry Walking Tour,” and other cross-pollinations, including the Boston chapter of The Poetry Brothel, an international immersive cabaret series (founded by The Poetry Society of New York). Shari’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, Grimoire, Angime, Drunk Monkeys, and others and has earned her a scholarship to The Home School in Hudson, a fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, as well as nominations for a Bettering American Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rhylsing Award. She graduated with an MFA from Lesley University in 2014. Find her work, workshops, monthly love letter to creativity, and upcoming events at ShariCaplan.com.

A Greater-est Boston Reading with [Working Title]
2024-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Rockwell, 255 Elm Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, 02144, United States
[Working Title] is a Boston-based, queer reading and open mic series founded by L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023) platforming emerging writers. Together with Bug World, they will present a lineup of local authors and poets, with a special feature by Philadelphia-based author Graham Irvin, promoting his new book, “I Have a Gun.” The planned readings will be followed by an open mic.

This event is All Ages // Valid ID required for alcohol

New Book and Poetry Open Mic with Vijaya Sundaram and Steven Cramer
2024-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts, 02476, United States
April is National Poetry Month! Arlington’s Beehive Poetry Group invites you to the “New Book and Open Mic” series. Featuring readings from recent publications by local poets, followed by an open mic for other poets to share their work. April’s featured poets are Vijaya Sundaram and Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty). Introductions by Steven Rapp. Open mic reading slots will be on a first come, first served basis and open 15 minutes before the start of each event.

CCW Open Mic
2024-04-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Cambridge Common Writers for an Open Mic with members of the Lesley MFA community!

An Evening with Lyz Lenz and Garrett Bucks
2024-04-17 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Pageturners Lounge, 5004 Dodge St, Omaha, Nebraska, 68106, United States
Come join Lyz Lenz (Fiction, June 2011) and Garrett Bucks for an event at Pageturners Lounge. Literary Pub Quiz to follow.Lyz is a New York Times bestselling author, whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, and others. Her book God Land was published in 2019, through Indiana University Press. Her second book Belabored, was published in 2020 by Bold Type Books. Lyz’s essay “All the Angry Women” was also included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. Her third book, This American Ex-Wife, published in 2024, was an instant New York Times best seller. She is also the host of the This American Ex-Wife podcast.Garrett Bucks is the founder of The Barnraisers Project, which has trained nearly one thousand participants to organize majority-white communities for racial and social justice. He is also the author of the popular newsletter The White Pages. Originally from Montana, he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and two children. The Right Kind of White is his first book.

It’s Your Mug 30th Anniversary Celebration
2024-04-24 08:00 - 2024-04-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20566, United States
From February 1994 to August 1996, the Tuesday night open mic at It’s Your Mug was a community event that had a lasting impact on Washington’s poetry scene that continues to impact American poetry. Celebrate the event’s 30th anniversary with original host and founder Toni Asante Lightfoot, and a group of Mug regulars including Toni Blackman, Kenny Carroll, Lisa Pegram (Poetry, June 2012), Patrick Washington, Holly Bass, and Twain Dooley with live jazz accompaniment.

This event will be both in-person and livestreamed.

Serabelle Book Launch with Tavi Taylor Black
2024-04-25 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vashon Bookshop, 17612 Vashon Hwy. SW, Vashon, Washington, 98070, United States
Join Tavi Taylor Black for the book launch of her new historical fiction novel, Serabelle, at the Vashon Bookshop.

Author Event: Jody Hobbs Hesler & BettyJoyce Nash
2024-04-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bluebird & Co, 5792 Three Notched Road, Crozet, Virginia, 22932, United States
Join Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017) for a book reading featuring author BettyJoyce Nash.

Jody Hobbs Hesler has written ever since she could hold a pencil and now lives and writes in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Growing up, she split time between suburban Richmond, Virginia, and the mountains outside Winchester, Virginia. Experiences of all these regions flavor her writing. Her debut story collection, What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better (Cornerstone Press) is now available, and her debut novel, Without You Here (Flexible Press) is forthcoming September 10, 2024. She teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, and serves as assistant fiction editor for The Los Angeles Review.

Light refreshments will be served. RSVP Required.

Zoom Webinar: The Modern Art of War - Hunter Liguore
2024-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been read mostly as a book of war strategies that teaches us how to beat our opponents on the battlefield. The Modern Art of War presents a new interpretation: it isn’t about conquering your enemies, devising strategies to overtake armies, or getting ahead against your competitors. Instead, the real art of war is the fight to control your mind and the thoughts that rule it.

What if Sun Tzu wasn’t a general at all, but a spiritual advisor, and that the Art of War was written not for a king, but for the people?

Join this webinar and share in Hunter Liguore’s (Fiction/WFYP, 2012) insights and guidance to the deeper meaning of the Art of War, from how to understand one’s own nature to strategies for drawing on our own wholehearted will and perceiving the inherent instability in all things.

The book contains over 150 reflection questions that prompt the reader to understand the text and guide them in their self-development journey, from ‘If you can change one idea about yourself to step into a new future, what would it be?’ to ‘Based on Sun Tzu’s teachings, what strategies can you incorporate into your daily activity or practice that would assist you in working through frustration or anger, without being harsh with yourself?’

Learn how to “conquer” or still the mind in order to reveal your own hidden teacher and recognize that the root of conflict (or war) begins within.

Here in Sanctuary–Whirling Book Launch with D. Dina Friedman
2024-05-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, 01002, United States
Join the Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western Massachusetts for a book launch and reading from Here in Sanctuary–Whirling by D. Dina Friedman (Fiction, January 2016), a collection of poems taken from the author’s journey to the Brownsville/Matamoros border and her work in the immigration justice movement.

Limited Engagement! by Erin FM
2024-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
Boston Theater Marathon XXVI features 50 ten-minute plays written by New England playwrights and presented by New England theatre companies which donate their time and talent to this annual event. The event will be divided into five blocks (each block $30 advance/$35 day-of-event, no fees), each featuring ten plays and running approximately one hour and 40 minutes.

Patrons who purchase a ticket to any part of the in-person event will also receive a link to the event livestream, so they may continue their BTM experience outside the theatre if they wish.

Limited Engagement! by Erin FM (WSS, January 2023) will be in the 6pm block.

Arrowsmith Press Reading with Steven Cramer, Diane Mehta and Christopher Merrill
2024-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States
Join Arrowsmith Press for a reading with Steven Cramer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty), Diane Mehta and Christopher Merrill with an introduction by Askold Melnyczuk. This event will be available both in-person and online.

Why and How to Perform Your Poetry (Well) with Shari Caplan and Jennifer Jean
2024-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom
There’s nothing like an amazing poetry reading! These are the events where readers are not onlyprepared, they’re authentic, compelling, charismatic, and memorable. Why is this kind of readingimportant for you as a poet and for society at large? And how can you give this kind of reading?You’ll leave this 2-hour, interactive presentation with solid knowledge about WHY you need toperform your poetry well and with tools for HOW to learn to read your poetry well. Throughtechniques based in neuroscience, sociology, and the theater, you will learn how to work withnerves, find confidence, use your voices, and connect with your audiences. Featuring poets JenniferJean and Shari Caplan (Poetry, June 2014).

Writer's Lab: Launch and Grow Your Substack Newsletter with Hurley Winkler
2024-05-21 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Regency Square Branch Library, 9900 Regency Square Blvd, Jacksonville, Florida, 32225, United States
Hurley Winkler (Fiction, January 2017) presents a 90-minute lecture-style workshop on developing a successful online newsletter.

The writer of a popular newsletter shares her keys to success on Substack. Learn about newsletter content strategies, the benefits of Substack over other social media platforms, and monetizing your newsletter.

Hurley Winkler writes the popular Substack newsletter Lonely Victories for an engaged audience of writers and readers. She leads the Book Club for Writers and teaches classes for writers. Hurley also hosts and produces the Jax Music Hour on WJCT News 89.9, broadcasting every Saturday night at 8. Her writing has been published in The Millions, Neutral Spaces, and Hobart, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She is currently on submission with her first novel.

Register to save your seat. Registration must be completed two hours prior to the start time. A library card and PIN are required for registration. If you do not have a card, click HERE to obtain one.

This workshop will later be held over Zoom for the public.

Cambridge Common Readers: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers with Rebecca Joy
2024-06-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join us for the next online meeting of Cambridge Common Readers as we discuss My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jean Shapland with Rebecca Joy (Fiction, January 2017). This event is free and open to the Lesley MFA community. You do not need to have attended previous sessions, and while you don’t have to read the book beforehand, we do encourage you to so that you may participate in the conversation. We look forward to seeing you there!

7th Annual Bronx Book Festival
2024-06-08 08:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Fordham Plaza, Fordham Plaza, The Bronx, New York, 10458, 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 one of the keynote speakers this year, accompanied by other established and emerging names in literature right now.

Who Am I: The Music and Meaning of Stream-of-Consciousness with Angelo D'Amato
2024-06-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, 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 music that is entirely our own. At the end of the class, students will have produced either a short story, an excerpt from a larger story, or a portfolio of smaller exercises.

This class will meet in-person at CCAE on Tuesdays for 8 weeks. Limited availability.

Lesley MFA Summer Reading Series: Kyoko Mori & John Rozum
2024-06-21 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Kyoko Mori (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) and John Rozum (Graphic Novel & Comics).

MFA Summer Reading Series: All Lesley Reads Visitor Bernardo Cubria
2024-06-22 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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 the 2021 Smith Prize for Political Theater from the National New Play Network. He is an artistic director (among many) at AMMO, Ammunition Theater Company. Here’s an interview with him on Playwright’s Spotlight: “Hitting the Flow State, Locking Yourself Away, and Staying in the Sh*t.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibY4478Fsb4

Writing for Young People Open Lecture Series: Using Your MFA to Stay Rooted in Craft
2024-06-23 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join visiting writer Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013), author of Other Words for Home, The Shape of Thunder, A Rover’s Story, and My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into twenty languages.
