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  • December 2018

  • Tue 4
    Featured December 4, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Michael A. Ponsor

    The Basement

    Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support Read More

  • Sun 30
    Featured December 30, 2018 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    Literary Rendezvous- OPEN MIC

    The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA
  • January 2019

  • Sun 6
    Featured January 6, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Michael J. Ponsor

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Michael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. Ponsor has taught at Yale Law School, Western New England School of Law, and the University of Read More

  • Tue 8
    Featured January 8, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Writers Night Out /Open Mic – Featured Reader: Debra Immergut

    The Basement

    Writers Night Out The Basement, 21 Center Street, Northampton, MA OPEN MIC - 2nd Tuesdays 7-9pm Hosts Rick Paar & Jacqueline Sheehan Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading Read More

  • Sun 27
    Featured January 27, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    Literary Rendezvous – Featured Poet: Lauren Marie Schmidt

    The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA

      Lauren Marie Schmidt is the author of three collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of The Dining Room, a sequence of poems about her volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her Read More

  • February 2019

  • Sun 3
    Featured February 3, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured reader: Alice Barrett

    Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! Here's how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want Read More

  • Tue 5
    Featured February 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured reader Chris O’Carroll

    Doors open at 7 – with an open mic. If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support Read More

  • Sun 24
    Featured February 24, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    Literary Rendezvous – Featured Reader Christopher J. Sparks

    The Rendezvous 78 3rd Street, Turners Falls, MA

      Featured Reader:  Christopher J. Sparks grew up in Northampton, MA through the 1980s and 90s. He writes poetry, travel, and history, the latter regarding Northampton State Hospital. 

  • March 2019

  • Sun 3
    Featured March 3, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader S. Forrest Nomakeo

    Belding Memorial Library 344 Main Street, Ashfield, United States

    Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read, put your name in the hat before 2:15. Shirley Forrest Read More

  • Tue 5
    Featured March 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Amy Laprade

    The Basement

    OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER Every month we host a  different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer. THE BASEMENT - 21 Center Street, Northampton, MA  If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until Read More

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