Publications
Quabbin Writers Salon Launches Microbursts in Easthampton




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Here’s our review from Steve Pfarrer in Hampshire Life:
http://www.gazettenet.com/Book-Bag-14133622
Look for more readings by this prolific group.
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
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.
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
Forbes Writing Room Reading May 31
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Ina Anderson will be reading her new book “Journey Into Space” in Western Massachusetts on Saturday, April 8, 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.
Gallery of Readers November 20
Jonathan Wright and Dan Levy will read at the Smith College Neilson Browsing Room on Sunday, November 20 at 4 pm. This is a part of the Gallery of Readers Series.
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.



. Now we’re excited to offer a sampler to the community.