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SUMMARY:Reading - (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius
DESCRIPTION:The BCA Playwright Residency presents a reading/workshop of a new play in development\, (UN)HOUSED by Fabiola R. Decius (WSS\, June 2015)\, at the Boston Center for the Arts. \n\n\n\n(UN)HOUSED tells the story of a single mother\, Elianie\, and her recent college graduate daughter\, Skylar\, who has moved back home. As Skylar tries to navigate the world of adulthood\, she and her mother learn that their two-bedroom home of ten years has been put up for sale by their landlord. When a new landlord purchases the home and allows for Elianie and Skylar to remain as tenants\, they believe all is well until a series of incidents put their housing in jeopardy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Fabiola at teenswrite18@gmail.com
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/reading-unhoused-by-fabiola-r-decius/
LOCATION:Boston Center for the Arts\, 539 Tremont Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:The Art\, Power and ABC’s of Talking With Young Children to Build Skills and Connection with Rebecca Rolland\, EdD
DESCRIPTION:Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent\, kind\, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted\, exhausted\, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations. \n\n\n\nHarvard lecturer\, speech pathologist\, and mother\, Rebecca Rolland (Fiction\, June 2017) offers an essential\, evidence-based guide to communicating more effectively with children of all ages\, revealing that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults and kids connect better in the moment and boosting children’s learning and wellbeing for years to come. \n\n\n\nDr. Rolland’s tools for communication will help you learn to: \n\n\n\n\nEngage in more “rich talk”—a methodology for a quality conversation;Promote your child’s empathy\, curiosity\, and ability to embrace challenges;Make you feel more effective and confident as a parent.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/the-art-power-and-abcs-of-talking-with-young-children-to-build-skills-and-connection-with-rebecca-rolland-edd/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Glenbard Parent Series":MAILTO:gilda_ross@glenbard.org
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SUMMARY:What the Universe Is: Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock
DESCRIPTION:Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us – both built and natural – and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry\, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By day\, she works as an art director for a Salt Lake City ad agency. Her first book All of This Was Once Under Water is out from Quarter Press (2023). Natalie’s poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review\, Tampa Review\, Rattle\, South Dakota Review\, Los Angeles Times\, Tar River Poetry\, http://Terrain.org \, and elsewhere. She serves on the Utah Arts Advisory and Lightscatter Press boards\, and lives in southern Utah with the poet Nano Taggart and two dogs. Find more at http://NatalieYoungArts.com  or follow her on Instagram (@pickledbeatss) for many pup pics. \n\n\n\nAutumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Philadelphia. Her newest chapbook\, Dirt Bird\, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press\, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Georgia Review\, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at http://autumnmcclintock.com.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/what-the-universe-is-natalie-padilla-young-and-autumn-mcclintock/
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author - Pamela Petro at Books on the Square
DESCRIPTION:Join Books on the Square on Thursday\, August 24th at 6:00 p.m. for a reading and discussion with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, author of The Long Field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHiraeth is a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate. Literally\, it can mean “long field” but generally translates into English\, inadequately\, as “homesickness.” At heart\, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place\, person\, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence.  In The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph’s and Financial Times’s Top 10 lists for travel writing\, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.” \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is a writer\, artist\, and educator and the author of four books\, including Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South (published by Arcade) and Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, Paris Review\, and others. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and in Lesley University’s MFA Program\, and is codirector of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, where she is a fellow. Pamela is also a visual artist who lives in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/meet-the-author-pamela-petro-at-books-on-the-square/
LOCATION:Books on the Square\, 471 Angell Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02906\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Pam Petro Book Launch ~ The Long Field
DESCRIPTION:Please join MainStreet BookEnds of Warner to celebrate the US book launch of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence – A Memoir with author Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) in conversation with David Elliott (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). \n\n\n\nHiraeth is a Welsh word that’s famously hard to translate. Literally\, it can mean “long field” but generally translates into English\, inadequately\, as “homesickness.” At heart\, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place\, person\, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. \n\n\n\nIn The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is a writer\, artist\, and educator and the author of four books\, including Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South (published by Arcade) and Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, Paris Review\, and others. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA Program\, and is co-director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, where she is also a Fellow. Pamela is also a visual artist who lives in in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/pam-petro-book-launch-the-long-field/
LOCATION:MainStreet BookEnds of Warner\, 16 East Main Street\, Warner\, New Hampshire\, 03278\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T090000
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SUMMARY:Novels-in-Verse: An Invitation to Play with Kate Fussner
DESCRIPTION:Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test\, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format\, white space\, word choice\, metaphors\, structure\, rhythm\, and more. In this seminar\, writers will be asked to re-imagine scenes from a work-in-progress with an emphasis on how we can transform scenes and heighten their impact when we stretch beyond the limitations of prose. No previous experience with novels-in-verse is required\, but students should come with a story they’ve been working on and a willingness to write bravely. \n\n\n\nBIO: Kate Fussner (she/her) is a novelist\, teacher\, and accidental poet living in Massachusetts with her wife and dramatic dog. Her debut novel\, THE SONG OF US\, is a queer middle grade novel-in-verse based on “Orpheus and Eurydice” (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books\, May 30\, 2023). Kate holds her B.A. in English from Vassar College\, her M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts Boston\, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People from Lesley University. Kate believes in the power of a good laugh and a good cry\, and hopes her stories will provide readers with both.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/novels-in-verse-an-invitation-to-play-with-kate-fussner/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Pamela Petro - The Long Field - Francie & Finch Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Join the Francie & Finch Bookshop to welcome Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty) as she introduces her newest memoir. \n\n\n\nThe publication of The Long Field will coincide with the Welsh American Festival happening from August 30th – September 3 at the Marriott Hotel in Lincoln. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book:In The Long Field\, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales\, as a gay woman\, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash\, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales\, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home\, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology\, immigration\, ecological crises\, and our new divisive politics. On this journey\, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition\, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. \n\n\n\nA finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph‘s and Financial Times’s Top 10 lists for travel writing\, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.” \n\n\n\nAbout the Author:Pamela Petro is an author\, artist\, and educator living in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz. She has written four books of creative nonfiction including her latest\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir\, as well as Travels in an Old Tongue\, also about Wales; Sitting up with the Dead\, about the American South; and The Slow Breath of Stone\, about Southwest France. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, The Paris Review\, and others. She was shortlisted in 2022 for The Wales Book of the Year Award and has received literary and visual arts residencies from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, The Black Rock Arts Foundation\, and The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St Davids\, where she is also a Fellow. She has widely exhibited her photography and has also created an artist book\, AfterShadows – A Grand Canyon Narrative\, and a graphic script\, Under Paradise Valley.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/visiting-author-pamela-petro-the-long-field-francie-finch-bookshop/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, Nebraska\, 68508\, United States
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