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 […]
View artworks from Julie Chen’s current collection that inspire and inform her upcoming exhibition Always with Us, which includes Eidolon of A-Ngoh, “I can’t forget, okay?,” The Last Shoe, and Getting Comfortable with Death. This is an in-person event held at Writers & Books 740 University Avenue Rochester, NY. Reserve your in-person ticket below Choose […]
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 […]
Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, Gonzalez's poems are a crescendo on the page. Part ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive, and meditative work. “India Lena González’s debut is made of exhilarating body language. Her serpentine stanzas, upper- […]
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 […]
In his 20th book, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction, survival, love, and parenthood. Death Prefers the Minor Keys is, most of all, a love letter to Dougherty’s wife and a chronicle of her courage and complicity in the face of long-term illness and addiction. Ultimately, […]
September 23 @ EST 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm & 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Tickets $25 | 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Join us for the unexpected: five 10-minute plays conceived of, written, directed, rehearsed, and performed within 24 hours. Five writers, five directors, and five actors gather at Writers & Books on […]
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. […]
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−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 […]
