Quabbin Writers Read at Great Rapids Spoken Word Festival last Saturday night
New England
Great Falls Word Festival
The Quabbin Writers Salon of Western Massachusetts will read at the Great Falls Word Festival at 6:30 pm, Saturday, October 14 at the Harvest Restaurant in Turner’s Fall.
They are reading for the first time from their newly published Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose that explores nature, love and the labyrinths of lives fully lived. Members of the Quabbin Writer’s Group have published widely in literary magazines and books. but this is our first collaborative effort and include Epi Bohdi, D. Dina Friedman, Marianne Gambaro, Kathryn Holzman, Jane Johnson and Eileen P Kennedy. Join us for the reading and the rest of this wonderful festival, which will run October 12-15 in Turner’s Falls.
Almost Bloomsday Forbes Writing Room
Wednesday morning from 9:30- 12:30, writers of every description — novelists, poets, memoir writers, essayists, journalists and more gather for companionable writing time. The Writing Room has been open for seven years.
Bloomsday is a commemoration of the life of the Irish writer, James Joyce. It’s celebrated on June 16, the day on which Ulysses is set. I will facilitate the Writing Room on Wednesday June 14. Since Bloomsday is just two days following, I will provide you with prompts based on James Joyce quotes.
I look forward to writing with you.
Forbes Writing Room Reading Wednesday May 31, 7 -8:30 pm in the Coolidge Museum
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
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
Forbes Writing Room Reading
May 31, 2017
7 pm
Coolidge Museum
I’ll be reading at the Forbes Library Coolidge Museum on May 31 at 7 pm with some fabulous writers. Join us for an evening of eclectic readings.
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 or not. Now we’re excited to offer a sampler to the community.
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
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.
Wordwrite Has Been Kind
Wordwrite Book Award Competition, sponsored by Knight and Grey Publishing and KarmaKindler.com, awarded my book , Banshees, second place in their Poetry Book Contest.
Check it out at:
https://knightandgreypublishing.com/wordwrite-book-awards/
https://karmakindler.com/the-wordwrite-book-awards.html
I am grateful for the honor.
Red Thread Writers Circles Begin This Week
Julie Rosier, writer extraordinaire and facilitator of writing groups for 10 years in Western Massachusetts, is starting her Red Thread Writing Circles on December 7. Two 10-week writing workshops, one will run on Wednesday evenings in Easthampton and on Thursday evenings in Northampton. Contact Julie at jrosier06@gmail.com for more details.
Greenfield Annual Word Festival
The Greenfield Annual Word Festival will run from Tuesday, October 18th to Sunday, October 23rd in Greenfield. I will be reading on Friday at 7 pm the Root Cellar, 10 Fiske Ave. with some wonderful poets including Lori Desrosiers, Anita Gallers, Debbie Tosun Kilday, Colin Haskings, Michael L. Kilday, to name a few. Join us for this word marathon.
Eileen P. Kennedy Author 