Join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival's Support Caribbean Writers Tour with writer Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) celebrating Pleasantview. The tour runs June 06 -16 at various venues in Brooklyn and one stop in Washington, DC. Pleasantview, though set in Trinidad and Tobago, derives its power from its ability to transcend its character's experiences from one to all […]
Join the 5th annual Bronx Book Festival! Thursday, June 9th celebrates the 2nd annual virtual Educator Day; Friday, June 10th is the kickoff with the Bookish in the Bronx party; Saturday, June 11th will be in-person (for the first time in two years) to celebrate books and authors with live programming and giveaways at Fordham […]
Join us for a virtual reading during the Lesley June Residency week. The reading will feature alums from all genres and will be held over Zoom. Our readers will be: Fabiola Decius - WSS, June 2015Daniel Carey - Poetry, June 2021Emily Inouye Huey - WFYP, June 2011Jody Hobbs Hesler - Fiction, June 2017Debbie Sosin - […]
Join Vermont author Benjamin Roesch (Fiction, January 2016) on Zoom to celebrate the release of his new young adult novel, Blowin' My Mind Like a Summer Breeze. Registration is free, but book purchases are welcomed and appreciated. Benjamin Roesch has an MFA from Lesley University and is a writer, musician, podcaster, and award-winning essayist. For twelve glorious, exhausting years, […]
Join Jennifer Barber, Steven Cramer (MFA Writing Faculty, Poetry), and Joyce Peseroff for an evening of reading at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square. There is an in-person registration and a virtual registration. The store asks guests to provide proof of vaccine at the door, and to wear a mask during the reading. […]
Celebrate the talented local writers in Chattanooga! The Chattanooga Author Showcase will feature nine authors and their published works in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essay, memoir, short story, young adult, and children's genres. Along with music, drinks, and tables with their books, the authors will have a reading and answer questions. Featured Authors: KB Ballentine (Poetry, […]
Sunday, August 28, will be the 67th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till. The Faraday Publishing Company, in collaboration with Cherry Castle Publishing, will be holding a reading that night at 7:30pm Eastern. Come hear poets who were featured in the landmark anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience, edited by Enzo Silon […]
Join Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) at Atticus Bookstore Café for an evening discussing her memoir Mother Noise.
Join The Silver Unicorn Bookstore as they host award-winning author Sara Farizan (WFYP, MFA Faculty, January 2012) and her newest release Dead Flip, and New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus and her newest release Nothing More to Tell.
Writers Flock presents a virtual event celebrating the work of Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016), Trinidadian author of novel-in-stories, Pleasantview, winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the American CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction in 2022. Join Strange Birds host and Bahamian-born writer Christi Cartwright in an hour-long conversation and readings with […]
Join AAPI Communities in Conversation for their next event on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, at 1:00 pm ET with Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011), author of The Many Meanings of Meilan in conversation with librarian Crystal Chen, New York Public Library.
Why a Lab and not a Workshop? Because this class is an opportunity to play “mad scientist” with your poems, to experiment in free-writing and to discover your voice through revision. Each of our 8 sessions will start off with a brief reflection on the craft of writing poetry, as well as a poem to […]
