Your weekly rundown of upcoming book discussions, readings, open mics, slams and workshops happening all over the region.
Submissions are open for the 6th Heroines Anthology and the 2025 Heroines Women’s Writing Prize. Volume 6 is a special witchcraft-themed edition.
A prize of $2,000 is given annually for a poetry collection published in the previous year by a resident of upstate New York.
Here’s a look at the upcoming book launches, discussions, readings, open mics, and workshops in the region.
Thom Francis welcomes poets Cat Simon & Kate S. who shared their work at the 2024 Word Fest Open Mic at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts.
Prizes and grant opportunities from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, University of Pittsburgh Press, CRAFT Literary, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Awards & prizes from Orison Books, Los Angeles Review, PEN America, National Gallery of Ireland, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and the Sundance Institute.
Another big week of literary events in the region. Here’s a quick look at the upcoming book discussions, readings, open mics, and workshops.
News and information on what’s going on in the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry world outside the upstate New York region.
The Troy Architectural Program, Inc. and NYS Writers Institute want your poems for a mural on the south wall of TAP during June, Pride Month.
News and information on what’s going on in the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry world outside the upstate New York region.
Thom Francis talks with poet Rachel Baum about collecting funeral poems, starting an open mic, and getting new people interested in poetry.
