Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day, the series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York, has announced its dates through December.
Welcome back to the Pine Hollow Arboretum open mic. The pot luck is still on beginning at 6 p.m. If you want bring something to share. The reading starts at 6:30 p.m.
Bob Sharkey announces the results of the 2017 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Contest. There will be a reading at the Colonie Town Library on Sunday, May 7, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Arthur’s Market & Cafe 2nd Wednesday of the Month Poetry Open Mic to feature Jackie Craven April 12.
Poet Kathleen McCoy will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, on Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m.
Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces its third annual Young Writers’ Contest. The contest is open to writers in grades 9 through 12 attending school (or home schooled in or a resident of) Berkshire or Columbia County.
On Wednesday, April 5, Caffè Lena will present a poetry reading by Phillip X Levine.
Rensselaerville Library will celebrate National Poetry Month with poems from local poets online daily and two readings open to the public.
Fiction, non-fiction and memoir writers are invited to read their work at a Short-Prose Open Mic at Roeliff Jansen Community Library on Saturday May 6, 4-6 p.m.
Writers in the Mountains (WIM) invites authors residing in, working in or otherwise connected to the Catskills and Hudson Valley regions to a literary arts and community event and celebration we call Writers Unbound (formerly known as Meet the Authors), the fourth in our series of annual literary festivals. This year, the event takes place Sunday, April 30, from noon to 4 p.m. at Union Grove Distillery in Arkville, NY.
Marion Roach Smith has moved her memoir classes online, and she is having more fun that ever.
Please note that Dael Orlandersmith, Obie-winning playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama, has rescheduled her appearances to Monday, May 1. (She was originally scheduled to appear March 20.)
