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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out\nJuly 3\, 2018\n7-9pm \nThe Basement\n21 Center Street\nNorthampton\, MA \nFeatured Reader – Jan Maher \nJust the facts: Jan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \nJan Maher’s novel Earth As It Is is published by Indiana University Break Away Books. Other writing credits include a novel\, Heaven\, Indiana; plays Ismene & Intruders\,  and Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater\, now in its 27th year of performance as a play and 3rd edition as a book. She holds a PhD from The Union Institute and University in Interdisciplinary Studies and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her website address is http://www.janmaher.com. She has recently joined Twitter @JanCMaher and maintains Facebook pages for  Earth As It Is and for Most Dangerous Women.
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Joyce Hayden
DESCRIPTION:Writers Night Out – June 5 2018 \n \n  \nFeatured Writer: Joyce Hayden \nJoyce Hayden left her teaching position in the English Department at Westfield State University three years ago to pursue travel\, writing\, and painting. Since then she’s been across the US a couple times\, as well as France and Italy. She has published a chapbook of poems\,  \nLost Handprint with Dandelion Review\, held her first one-woman art exhibit at Sean-Christopher Gallery in Columbus\, OH\, and is now seeking a publisher for her completed memoir\, The Out of Body Girl. She writes a weekly Must Reads column at ROAR- Literature\, and Revolution for Feminist People. \n \nSee more of her writing and art on her website: Joycehayden.com \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. 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. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! \nFurther information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Kathy Ford
DESCRIPTION:Featured Reader – Kathy Ford grew up in Rochester\, New York\, graduated from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1980 with a major in design theory\, and moved to New York City to pursue a career in architecture. She received her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1985 and has been practicing architecture in New York and Massachusetts for the past thirty years. \nHer life as a quilter began shortly after becoming a mother in 1991.\nKathy lives with her two dogs in the hilltowns of western Massachusetts.\nHer body of work can be seen at kathyford.net \n \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. 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. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Readers Kris Holloway and John Bidwell
DESCRIPTION:John D. Bidwell is consulting editor of Monique and the Mango Rains\, the critically esteemed book authored by his wife Kris Holloway that chronicles their time in Peace Corps with the Malian midwife Monique Dembele. He is the Executive Director of the United Way of Hampshire County\, and a branding and marketing consultant\, frequent presenter\, and has lectured and taught at the University of Michigan\, University of Massachusetts\, Smith College\, and Marlboro College. John has his BA from McGill University. \n  \n  \n \nKris Holloway is author of the critically acclaimed Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali\, which has been called “a respectful\, unsentimental portrait (and) a poignant and powerful book.” (Kirkus\, Starred Review). She has delivered hundreds of presentations\, and the book remains a favorite “common read” and is used in 150+ college and university courses. Kris is President of CISabroad\, a leading education abroad organization responsible that has sent thousands of students to study and intern abroad worldwide. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan. \n  \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. 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. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out - Featured Reader Tzivia Gover
DESCRIPTION:Tzivia Gover is the author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep; Joy in Every Moment\, Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House\, a book about teaching poetry to teen mothers in Holyoke. She is a writer\, educator\, and certified dreamwork professional and the director of the Institute for Dream Studies. Her poems\, stories\, essays and articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies including The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, and Poets & Writers Magazine among others. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, and can be found online at tziviagover.com.  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. 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. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
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