This is my third year to participate in Readings from The Writing Room. I will be joined by 12 other writers who will share samples of their work. We all write together in The Writing Room held every Wednesday and Saturday, from 9:30-12:30, at Forbes Library, in the Watson Room. Our group is led by Forbes Author in Residence, Susan Stinson.
Please join us tonight at 7:00, Forbes Library, The Coolidge Museum. You will hear writers of every description – novelists, poets, memoir writers, essayists, journalists, and more. Each writer will read for 3 1/2 minutes. Join us to hear:
Sally Bellerose, a retired RN and longtime Northampton resident, loves to give readings and play with her granddaughter in the garden. Her novel The Girls Club is set in Chicopee, MA. sbellerose@comcast.net http://sallybellerose.wordpress.com.
Carolyn Cushing is a poet inspired by nature. She has published inFreshwater and was a finalist for the Philbrick Poetry Award of the Providence Athenaeum in 2012. Her work is athttp://unstoppablewholeness.wordpress.com/.
Bernadette Giblin is writing her memoir Heal the Earth: a woman’s odyssey to heal the earth a lawn @ a time. Her blog The Finding Safeground Project teaches that organic lawns can help stop climate change.
Cynthia Hinckley writes about her therapy dogs and the meaningful visits she has made with them to healthcare facilities over the past twenty-one years. Her articles on therapy dogs have appeared in the American Kennel Club Gazette and other dog publications. She is the author of the blog Say Hello Spot. She has just completed her first book, Beyond Words: The Bond Between People and Dogs.
Grace LeClair is an artist, community activist, mother, lover and pie-maker. Her favorite topics for writing include these disciplines and, even more, the ways they inform each other.
Philip C. Maurer, poet, essayist, and genealogist, is an Ohio native living in Northampton. His writing has appeared in The Farmer General and Ohio Genealogy News
Rick McNeil likes to do a lot of things. If he’s not in the woods, playing guitar or doing Kundalini yoga you might find him in a local library or cafe writing.
Ellen Meeropol, author of House Arrest, writes characters on the fault lines of political turmoil and human connection. Her dramatic script for the Rosenberg Fund for Children will be produced June 16 in Manhattan.
Mary A. Nelen is a Easthampton resident who strives to meet everyone who feeds her.
Megan Nolan is a graduate of Western New England University. She writes poetry and essays. She lives in Monson, Massachusetts.
Shane Sinclair: I am pursuing writing because language is important to me. Narrative writing accounts for a good portion of my focus. Poetry for me is expressive of experience.
Susan Stinson‘s fourth novel, Spider in a Tree (about18th C Northampton in the time of Jonathan Edwards) will be out from Small Beer Press in the fall. Mark your calendars for the October 2 launch/reading.