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Jumpstart Your Memoir! A Writing Workshop with Celia Jeffries

Joanne Rossman's Home 6 Birch Street, Roslindale, Massachusetts, 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 […]

$125

Lyz Lenz presents This American Ex-Wife

Magers & Quinn Booksellers 3038 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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 […]

Free

Eileen Cleary, Anne Pluto, Linda Carney-Goodrich & Gloria Monaghan at Brookline Booksmith

Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 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 […]

Free – $5

Project Management for Poets and Writers, with Michael Mercurio

The Valley's Literary Arts Studio 221 Pine St., Studio #359, Florence, Massachusetts, 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 […]

$75

Cambridge Common Readers: Inaugural Book Club Event with Tracey Baptiste

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. […]

Free

Reading at Western Carolina University with Lyz Lenz

A.K. Hinds University Center 245 Memorial Drive, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 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 […]

Free

Beyond the Book with Julie Wittes Schlack

Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St, Northampton, Massachusetts, 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? […]

$150

Author Talk: Shari Caplan – Exhibitionist

Jamaica Plain Public Library 30 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 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 […]

Free

A Greater-est Boston Reading with [Working Title]

The Rockwell 255 Elm Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

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 […]

$5 – $10

New Book and Poetry Open Mic with Vijaya Sundaram and Steven Cramer

Robbins Library 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts, 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. […]

Free