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Lucy Ives: Life is Everywhere

Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NY, United States

With unflinching precision, Life Is Everywhere captures emotional events that hover fitfully at the borders of visibility and intelligibility, showing how the past lives on, often secretly and at the expense of the present. Multifarious, mischievous, and deeply humane, Lucy Ives’s latest masterpiece rejoices in what a novel, and a self, can carry. “Brilliantly berserk. […]

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Community Writing Group

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Join us for a free, collaborative, supportive writing community every Saturday. Facilitated by Jessica L. Pavia, our writing group is focused on encouragement, guidance, generosity, and accountability. Drop in weekly, monthly, or as the spirit moves. Writers at all levels and in all genres are invited to share work, receive respectful feedback, try out new […]

Kathy Johncox: On Second Base

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Kathy Johncox−fiction writer, communications professional, world traveler/Army brat, coffee-loving Norwegian daughter, wife, sister, mother−was born in St. Louis MO. She gathered material in two foreign countries and seven states before settling down to seriously write at her current home in upstate NY. On Second Base, a story of regret, suffering, introspection, and the path to […]

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Danielle Cadena Deulen, Matt Donovan & Lindsay Bernal

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Reading & Book Signing Divided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, Danielle Cadena Deulen’s Desire Museum touches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. “At once dreamlike and insistently clear(Chelsea Rathburn),” these poems trace the pleasures and pitfalls of sex; the anxieties […]

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Eidolon of A-Ngoh: In Between Performance

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Julie Chen exhibits what remains of her mother Peggy Chen’s life (her cremains) and her identity (clothing), from a gallery installation into a costume for performance. Here, she expresses the death of the person who once gave her life and the many lives she led. This is an in-person event held at Writers & Books […]

Jaime Mahler: Toxic Relationship Recovery

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Jaime Mahler, MS, LMHC, is the New York-based psychotherapist and mental health educator behind the popular Recollected Self social media brand. Her therapeutic education on trauma and toxic relationships has gone viral on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, with millions of views and likes. In addition to becoming the trusted, empathetic resource for her many followers, […]

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Blues Poetry

An In-Person Master Class with Doug Curry Participants will deepen their knowledge of the literary, aural, and oral legacy of the blues by engaging with Doug Curry’s and other practitioners' blues poems and songs. Listening to recorded examples, they will discuss and interpret the overt and subliminal messages inherent in this time-honored tradition. Discussion will […]

One Flesh: Writing the Inner and Outer Landscape

Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat 6581 W Hollow Rd., Naples, United States

An All Genres Workshop at Gell with Anais Salibian Gleason Lodge, Gell: A Creative Finger Lakes Retreat 6581 West Hollow Road, Naples, NY 14512 “Body and land are one flesh,” Scott Russel Sanders writes in his essay “Earth's Body.” “They are made of the same stuff. Their beauty is one beauty, their wounds are the […]

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Joe Baumann, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Thirteen surreal short stories utilize the strange and the bizarre as a backdrop for explorations of loneliness, queer coming-of-age, self-discovery, and loss. Baumann’s tender vignettes of love, anger, grief, and desire are a stunning ode to the places and people that can give us solace within an absurd and chaotic world. Joe Baumann is the […]

Rochester Reads Reception

The Strong National Museum of Play 1 Manhattan Square Dr, Rochester, NY, United States

Mingle with fellow book lovers over light hors d’oeuvres, wine, and beverages. Your ticket includes reserved, priority seating at N. K. Jemisin’s keynote. Reception will be held at The Strong National Museum of Play  1 Manhattan Square DR, Rochester, NY  

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N.K. Jemisin Keynote & Book Signing

The Strong National Museum of Play 1 Manhattan Square Dr, Rochester, NY, United States

Welcome by Annette Jiménez Gleason, Senior Program Officer at Rochester Area Community Foundation; introduction by scholar Dr. Gaya Shakes This is an in-person event held at The Strong National Museum of Play  1 Manhattan Square DR, Rochester, NY The keynote address will also be streamed online via Zoom. Tickets are still available. Reserve your ticket […]

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Rochester Reads Book Festival

SUNY Brockport Downtown 161 Chestnut St, Rochester, NY, United States

Welcome by NY State Senator Samara G. Brouk Browse indie bookstores and small press publishers’ tables and acquaint yourself with area cultural resources.  Enjoy pop-up events, author signings, panels, and multigenerational readings and performances. This is an in-person event held at SUNY Brockport Downtown 161 Chestnut St. Rochester, NY.     Choose the ticket price that’s […]

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Gallery Talk & Opening of Always With Us

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Join artist Julie Chen and Artist in Residence co-curator Susan Begy for a conversation on the creation and curation of Always With Us and experience the final stage of the “cloud.” This is an in-person event held at Writers & Books 740 University Avenue Rochester, NY. Reserve your in-person ticket below Choose the ticket price […]

Willie Lin, Conversation Among Stones

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Through fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin's debut collection of poetry questions what can remain and what must be pared away in our search for truth. Conversation Among Stones speaks both to the inanimate— misremembered histories, photographs, the dead—and to the voices in our daily lives that reverberate […]

Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Transitory

Writers & Books Streaming Event NY, United States

Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems  are “gleaned sketches” attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Seen through the lenses of whiteness and privilege from the last quarter of a lifetime, the poems navigate the desire to be at home in our bodies, to be loved […]

Willa Carroll: Demolition Suite

Writers & Books 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

Willa Carroll will read from her new chapbook, Demolition Suite, along with projections from her award-winning short film. Willa Carroll is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Nerve Chorus, (The Word Works, 2018) was noted in The Common as a “meticulously choreographed treatment of life as art.” Carroll’s poems have appeared […]

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