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  • December 2018

  • 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 13
    Featured January 13, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift Event 

    Northampton Center for the Arts 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA, United States

    Title of Presentation: Labyrinth Through Fear: A Gift Event ©  Location: NCA Date/Time: Sunday, Jan.13, 1-3pm This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore fear as information. Quest-ions (energy for the journey) include "What am I afraid of?" "What do I want?" and "What can I do to move through fear to the next level of courage?" Read More

    $5
  • Sat 26
    Featured January 26, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    A Winter Reading – Belchertown Authors

    Parish Hall at BUCC 18 Park Street, Belchertown, MA

    Local authors who are members of the Straw Dog Writers Guild and friends will read from their books and manuscripts. There will be snacks and books available for signing. Snow day is January 27, 4-6 PM. Readers include: Mary Warren Bartlett, Justine Dymond, Francesca Forrest, Marianne Gambaro, Ellen Evert Hopman, Melanie S. Lewis, and Jo 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

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