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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
