Writers Night Out
October 1 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday October 1, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Dean Cycon at Forbes Library.
No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.
Masks are not currently required for indoor events. Please wear a mask if you would like to exercise caution.
Hosted by Jacqueline Sheehan, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.
Sponsored by Valley Home Improvement.
Dean Cycon is an author, lawyer, human rights advocate and internationally renowned social entrepreneur who has lived and worked in over sixty countries. Cycon is a passionate explorer of culture and history, seeking out unexamined corners that illuminate the human condition. His narrative non-fiction, Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Chelsea Green, 2008) was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Travel Essay by the Independent Publishers Association and has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Spanish. FINDING HOME (Hungary, 1945) is his first novel.
