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  • June 2018

  • Mon 4
    Featured June 4, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Voices for Resistance – A Celebration!

    Forbes Library Coolidge Museum, 20 West Street, Northampton, 01060

    VOICES FOR RESISTANCE - A CELEBRATION! with special guests Martín Espada, The Nields, and Nicole M. Young! Short readings by Maria Jose Gimenez, Lauren Marie Schmidt, Eileen Kennedy, Ellen LaFleche, Dina Friedman, Christopher J. Sparks & Theresa Vincent OPEN MIC   - slots available on June 4. If you’d like to read (max. 4 minutes) please arrive BY 6:45 Read More

  • Tue 5
    Featured June 5, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Joyce Hayden

    The Basement

    Writers Night Out – June 5 2018   Featured Writer: Joyce Hayden Joyce 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 Read More

  • Sun 24
    Featured June 24, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

    Poetry Critique Meet-up 

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

    Poetry Critique Meet-up  Moderated by poet and translator Michael Goldman   Sunday June 24, 1-3pm Sunday July 15, 1-3pm Sunday August 12, 1-3pm Click here - TO REGISTER Poetry Critique Meet-up is a chance for poets to give and receive immediate constructive feedback on their poems by everyone in attendance.  Learn what is working in Read More

  • July 2018

  • Sun 1
    Featured July 1, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill – Featured Reader Jan Maher

    The Inn at Norton Hill 10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA, United States

    Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill 10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA 1st Sunday of the month. - 3:00–5:00 pm. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.)  Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Read More

  • Tue 3
    Featured July 3, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Jan Maher

    The Basement

    Writers Night Out July 3, 2018 7-9pm The Basement 21 Center Street Northampton, MA Featured Reader - Jan Maher Just 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 Read More

  • Wed 18
    Featured July 18, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Compass Roads Reading at the Northampton Senior Center

    Northampton Senior Center 67 Conz St, Northampton, MA, United States
  • August 2018

  • Sun 5
    Featured August 5, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

    ** Location change for this month! Writers Read @ St. John’s Corner House – Featured Reader Ann C. Averill

    The Inn at Norton Hill 10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA, United States

    Location change for this month! Writers Read at St. John's Corner House,  469 Main St., Ashfield.  Featured Reader - Ann C. Averill Ann Averill’s work has appeared in several Christian publications. One of her short stories was published in a Writer’s Digest Short Short Story collection. A flash memoir recently went online in Write Angles Read More

  • Tue 7
    Featured August 7, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell

    The Basement

      Featured Reader: Mary Clare Powell Mary Clare Powell is a lifelong teacher, retired professor at Lesley University, and poet.  Her newest poetry book is Everyday Ecstasy, a collection about aging (which we are all doing).  Growing older and its losses are here, but so is whimsy, joy, and gratitude--pondering a brother’s death, swimming in Read More

  • September 2018

  • Tue 4
    Featured September 4, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Emily Arsenault

    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 9
    Featured September 9, 2018 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

    Writers Read @ ELMERS – Featured Reader Phyllis Katz

    Elmers 396 Main St,, Ashfield, MA, United States

    Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! Here’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read, put your name Read More

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