Writers’ Open Mic is a monthly open mic event featuring all literary genres. Prose, poetry, flash fiction, pages from your graphic novel, a haiku about Market Basket; whatever you’re working on, come and dazzle a live audience in a low-key, supportive atmosphere. Connect with a literary community, have a drink or two, hear inspiring features […]
The Tiny Shed Discovery & Arts series continues with a novel, genre-blending match-up, as internationally touring guitarist and composer Nathaniel Braddock joins up in a collaboration with poet Steven Cramer (Poetry, Mentor). Braddock performs solo fingerstyle guitar concerts drawing on his repertoire of African roots and American fingerstyle guitar music. He teaches privately, and has […]
Visit Ben McNally Books in Toronto for a book launch event with Mundy McLaughlin (Fiction, January 2019) for her debut novel, Blue Life (Civil Sector Press). Mundy will be joined […]
Dr. Greg Stein is pumped. He’s ready. He is so ready to introduce his newest invention, THE VICTOR—a revolutionary device that can permanently erase a woman’s most traumatic memory. And after […]
Visit the Alameda Free Library for the 2026 Alameda Book Con, featuring a number of authors, including Abbie Harlow (WFYP, June 2019), who will be talking about her book, The […]
Join Jennifer Sperry Steinorth and Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) for the virtual poetry series What The Universe Is. Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (TRP, 2026), A […]
Acclaimed author P. O’Connell Pearson (WFYP, June 2015) tells the inspiring story of the trailblazing women of the Progressive movement and their work that led to political, economic, and social […]
Visit Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of Bonebag with authors E.M. Elliott and David Elliott (WFYP, Mentor), in conversation with Mary Burchenal. In this riveting middle-grade fantasy, New York Times bestselling author David Elliott and E.M. Elliott tell the story of a forest-dwelling boy forced to confront the mysteries of his life. Trapped in a dark forest with […]
Join Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017) for the writing class: If You Can Name It, You Can Fix It: Decoding Common Craft Missteps in Fiction where she will dig […]
Join WBUR and Deborah Sosin (Nonfiction, January 2015) reading from her childhood diaries on "Moritified"-- a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts as shared by their original authors in front […]
As a visual artist, writing about your own work - whether it's an artist statement, exhibition placards, or grant proposals - can be a challenge. Ekphrastic poetry (a.k.a. poetry inspired […]
Local author and historian P. (Patty) O'Connell Pearson (WFYP, June 2015) will be visiting the City of Fairfax Regional Library to talk about her newest book, No Ordinary Women: How Progressive Era Reformers […]