Solstice January 2022 Guest Faculty Reading

Online Zoom Event

Hear a sampling of three-minute readings from Solstice's winter 2022 guest faculty and writers-in-residence. Readers include: • Robbie Gamble (Poetry, January 2017)• Annie Harnett• Lee Hope• Sydney Lea• Shelley Linso• Beth Little• Devi Lockwood• Suzanne S. Rancourt• Lisa Stringfellow• Terrance Hayes

Free

CCW Virtual Reading January 2022

Online Zoom Event

Cambridge Common Writers will be hosting a virtual reading once more during the January Residency for Lesley University. This event is free and open to the public. Readers: Michelle Boland (Poetry, January 2019)Kathy Park Woolbert (Nonfiction, June 2010)Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011)Thato Mwosa (WSS, June 2017)Lisa DeSiro (Poetry, June 2010)Jorge Armenteros (Fiction, June 2012)

Free

NEPC / Voices of Poetry – Back at the Library–Featuring Eileen Cleary

Online Event

Eileen Cleary (Poetry, June 2016) - founder & editor of Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books - will be reading her work at this free virtual poetry event, presented by New England Poetry Club and Voices of Poetry (hosted by Cambridge Public Library). Other poets who will be reading include Charles Coe, Susan […]

Free

Getting the Words Right: A Look Inside the Writer’s Life — Featuring EA Luetkemeyer

Online Zoom Event

Host and author Ginna BB Gordon will lead a lively and probing conversation about the writing process and what it takes to be an author. Her guests are psychologist and poet Frank De Luca and fiction author EA Luetkemeyer (May 2015). These three local authors will discuss their writing process via the WHO, WHAT, HOW, […]

Free

Writing to Astound, with Michael Mercurio

Online Event

All writers, no matter how accomplished, feel the pressure of finding the right words to invigorate their prose and bring their stories to life. The right word choice and arrangement can surprise and astonish readers, or entice editors and agents to keep reading well after the first page. Think of the power that wordplay, (rhyme, alliteration, lyricism, connotation) […]

$75

Julie Wittes-Schlack in conversation with Pamela Petro on Julie’s new novel, Burning and Dodging

The Odyssey Bookshop 9 College St, South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States

Join Odyssey Bookshop both in person and online on Thursday, February 10 at 7 PM for a reading and discussion of Julie Wittes-Schlack's (Nonfiction, June 2013) new novel, Burning and Dodging. She will be joined in conversation by Pamela Petro (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty), author of the memoir, The Long Field - Wales and the Presence of Absence. Julie […]

Free

What The Universe Is: Gustavo Hernandez and Steven Cramer

Online Zoom Event

What The Universe Is: A Reading Series featuring two fantastic poets in a continent-spanning event: Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press). Gustavo holds a degree in creative writing from California State University Long Beach, and his poems have been published in Reed, Acentos Review, Sonora Review and […]

Free

VIRTUAL: Tell-All: Rejected by Modern Love — Featuring Deborah Sosin

Online Zoom Event

We've all read the popular New York Times Modern Love column. What you might not know is that the Times receives thousands of submissions for the 50 essays it publishes each year, making it one of the most sought-after spots for both aspiring and established writers. Join GrubStreet and Belmont Books for an evening of rejected Modern Love essays. Five […]

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