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 […]
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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 […]
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, 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 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 […]
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 […]
