Silkworm 11 Is Open for Submissions

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Silkworm, the annual review of Florence Poets Society, is open for submissions! You are invited to submit your poems to be considered for Silkworm 11–The Eleventh Hour to be published in fall 2018.
 Please submit up to 3 poems of no longer than 50 lines each on the theme of “the eleventh hour.” The theme may or may not be taken literally. Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2018.
Please include a 30-word bio with your submission. Only electronic submissions will be accepted, as an MS Word document attached in an email sent to info@florencepoets.com. There is no fee to submit your poems for consideration. Members and non-members of Florence Poets Society are encouraged to submit. Please visit their website for more information: www.florencepoets.com
 Simultaneous submissions are acceptable so long as you inform them right away if your poem is accepted elsewhere. They claim first American publication rights, with rights reverting to the author after the initial publication period; please give us credit in future publications. We prefer work that has not been previously published.
Submissions from within the United States that are accepted for publication will receive a contributors copy of Silkworm 11. For international submissions that are accepted for publication in Silkworm 11, we reserve the option to send contributors an electronic PDF copy rather than a print copy. This is because of the high cost of international postage. Florence Poets Society does not and never will require a fee for submissions.

They look forward to reading your poems!

Quabbin Writers Launch Microbursts on December 9 in Easthampton

Joie us for the launch of Microbursts – the Quabbin Writer’s Salon’s Debut Anthology –

on Saturday, Dec. 9, 3:30 pm at White Square Books, 85 Cottage St., Easthampton, MA.

Epi Bodhi

D. Dina Friedman

Marianne Gambaro

Kathryn Holzman

Jane McPhetres Johnson

Eileen P. Kennedy

Maureen Solomon

 

 

Forbes Writing Room Reading Wednesday May 31, 7 -8:30 pm in the Coolidge Museum

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Writing Room Reading

Wednesday and Saturday morning from 9:30- 12:30, writers of every description — novelists, poets, memoir writers, essayists, journalists and more — join novelist Susan Stinson or Forbes writer-in-residence Naila Moreira for companionable writing time. The Writing Room has been open for seven years. We’re celebrating with a reading.  We end our mornings writing together with the option of sharing a quick taste of our work, and now we’re offering a sampler to the community.

READERS

Carolyn A. Cushing
Allie Eaton
Elizabeth French
Rachel Hass
Eileen P. Kennedy
Mary Messick
Megan Nolan
Erika Norden
Sean F. Norton
Elizabeth Pike
Julie Rosier
Shane Sinclair
Alice Thomas
Susan Stinson
Naila Moreira

Poetry Reading Saturday May 20

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Reading and Book Party

Journey into Space. Ina Anderson

 

Saturday, May 20, 2017, 3 p.m.

120 Pulpit Hill Road, North Amherst

(Pioneer Valley Cohousing Common House)

 

From her origins in England through a life well lived in Vermont, poet Ina Anderson will transport her audience through universal experiences of childhood, love and loss in a reading from her new collection Journey into Space. Maine poet laureate Baron Wormser has written of Journey into Space, “Ina Anderson’s poems show us scenes from a fully lived and deeply appreciated life. The poems hail from that legendary land called The Past, each poem brimming with convincing details and nuances of feeling. Her British origins feel at once far away and familiar, for the terrain her poems traverse is thoroughly human—the stuff of tales told by the eternal hearth.”

 

The reading is free and open to the public.

Please join us!!

The Pioneer Valley Cohousing Writing Group and

Quabbin Writers’ Salon

 

 

More information available at: antrimhousebooks.com/anderson-ina.html

contact: Kathryn Holzman, kbholzman@gmail.com

 

Forbes Writing Room Reading May 31

Rescheduling of Ina Anderson Reading Until May 20

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Ina Anderson will be reading her new book “Journey Into Space” in Western Massachusetts on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the Pioneer Valley Co-Housing Common Room at 3pm.This is surely to be an interesting reading by this accomplished Scottish poet.  This event is sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Co-Housing Writers Group.