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Quick Links W&B’s Calendar of Events If All of Rochester Read the Same Book… Winter Workshops & Classes The Big Read |
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Ongoing at Writers & Books Writers & Books Annual Fund Dear Friends of Writers & Books, At this time each year we ask our friends to support Writers & Books with a year-end contribution. This year that support is needed more than ever before. Needed because we are involved with so many exciting programs that reach people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the greater Rochester community. Needed because with your support we can do even more to make Rochester the most literary mid-sized city in the country... Click here to read more or to donate online.
Gell Poetry Prize Winner Requiem available
“All the poems in Requiem may be read as attempts to confront the presence of death in our lives, to engage the subject directly without melodrama and without evasion.”
Regional Playwrights Festival Plays for consideration must be submitted (postmarked or hand-delivered) between January 20 and February 3, 2009, to Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14607. An SASE for return of the script must be included with the manuscript. Plays that have been submitted in the past may be resubmitted if there has been significant work done on the script since the last submission. The final selections will be made by March 12, and winners will be notified. Scripts will be returned after that date. Playwrights should be available to attend the reading and the rehearsal for it. On the evenings of April 27 and May 4, 2009, both full-length and one-act plays written by regional (living now or having lived within the five county-area: Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario, and Genesee) playwrights, and selected through an open competitive process, will be given a developmental reading by professional actors at Geva. "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…” 2009 Selected by Granta as one of America's best young writers and featured in The New Yorker's best young fiction issue, Tony Earley [in Jim the Boy] now gives us a luminous portrait of a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era town of Aliceville, North Carolina. At once delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own. Jim the Boy will appeal to the readers who loved classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, Ellen Foster, and A Member of the Wedding. Click here to read more about 2009's book. Winter 2009 Adult Catalogue Now Online
All Adult courses for winter are now online and available for registration online or over the phone. W&B introduces Senior Class, a new writing program for older adults. The introduction of Senior Class represents a unique collaboration between Writers & Books, Rochester’s community-based literary center, and The Center for Healthy Aging, the nationally recognized geriatrics program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. This new program is intended to address issues of aging associated with memory loss and overall cognitive functioning. Writers & Books will offer a menu of daytime writing classes and workshops at our facility on University Avenue. Staff from the Center for Healthy Aging will conduct ongoing testing of participants to see whether involvement in the act of creative writing does improve ongoing cognitive functioning. Participants will be asked, but not required, to take part in a series of non-obtrusive tests that will gauge their cognitive functions and memory retention. Click here to view Senior Classes.
Winter Classes for Kids and Teens Don’t let your kids leave writing in the cold this winter! Kids courses for winter are now available to browse online. Make sure to check out our selection of classes for February and April Break!
Publishing FAQ Do you have a piece you would like to publish, but don't know how to go about it? Steve Huff, author and Director of Adult Education has produced answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding self-publishing, magazine, and novel publishing. Read it here. |
Upcoming Winter Events
Valley Manor Book Group DiscussionsThursday, January 8, 10:30 a.m.–noon. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by: Dr. David White The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society. This Month: George McDade on “What’s Wrong With Contemporary Philosophy in the Real World?” David White For further information, call 415-5925 or e-mail: tmadigan@rochester.rr.com Genesee Reading SeriesHosted by: Wanda Schubmehl Here's the plot: It's January in Rochester, NY. Tuesday, January 13, to be exact. You are restless. None of your socks match. Your dog threw up on your newspaper. Dunkin Donuts stopped making pumpkin muffins. And it's a long time till spring. And yet - you have a strange feeling that something good is ahead...you remember that tonight is Genesee Reading Series at Writers and Books, with Joan Pedzich and her son Keith. Or is it Keith Pedzich and his mother, Joan? You are intrigued, your curiosity aroused. You begin to look forward to the evening, when you can solve this mystery... Keith Pedzich teaches English at Canandaigua Academy, but aspires to put on 200 lbs, be known as Fat Al, and gain a reputation for his slow smoked brisket and tangy pork spare ribs. Keith holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College . His stories have been rejected by some of the finest publications in the land, including The Alaskan Quarterly Review, Glimmertrain, and Ploughshares. Currently, he is at work on a collection of short stories about teaching in the American Public school system. Senior Reading GroupTuesday January 13 2:00 pm- 4:00p.m. Share your writing with other seniors in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere at W&B. Open History Reading GroupHosted by: Steve Huff Join us for meetings of an open history-reading group. In these gatherings we choose historical topics rather than specific books, and then you choose a book on the subject that most interests you. The discussions are convivial, exciting, and informative.
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