Conversation followed by a book signing with…Erin E. Adams is the author of Jackal (2022), the story of a young Black woman who returns— reluctantly— to her very white hometown in central Pennsylvania to attend a friend’s wedding. Meanwhile, something evil waits for her in the woods— something that has been preying on Johnstown’s Black […]
Ruth Franklin, acclaimed biographer, is the author of The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jan. 2025). The book explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to cultural icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary—translated into more than 70 languages— is the most widely read work of literature to arise […]
Featuring Sean Allison, billy cancel and Genevieve Fernworthy; Sasha Pearl.“A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” is a monthly series at Hudson’s historic Park Theater on the first Thursday of each month. Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work. Hosted by […]
Join us for a conversation with Rigoberto González, award-winning poet and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers Newark, and editor of a major new anthology, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Sept. 2024), from the Library of America.On Good Morning America, National Book Award-winner Elizabeth Acevedo called it “a landmark […]
Tony Tulathimutte, fiction writer and humorist, is the author of Rejection (2024), an acclaimed story collection that explores the many ways of being rejected— by lovers, friends, housemates, society, even oneself. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the book was also named a New York Times Best Book of the Year.Writing in the […]
Salon Salvage returns to the Upstairs Arts Collective with Miriam Atkin (poetry), Tyler Barton (multimedia), Alex Chang (harp), and Betsy Fagin (poetry).
The NYS Writers Institute welcomes Joseph O’Neill, acclaimed Irish novelist, for an afternoon conversation and Q&A.
Salon Salvage returns to the Upstairs Arts Collective with artist Judith Braun, poet Maggie Greaves, and translator Mayada Ibrahim.
Richard Price, celebrated author of Clockers, and a key screenwriter for HBO’s "The Wire," is a renowned author of gritty crime fiction set in the devastated neighborhoods of America’s cities.
Kazim Ali, UAlbany alum (B.A. ‘93, M.A. ’95), is an award-winning poet, translator, novelist, essayist, founder of the nonprofit press Nightboat Books, and Professor of Creative Writing at UC San Diego.
Lan Samantha Chang is a prize-winning fiction writer and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her most recent novel is "The Family Chao."
Word Thursdays Online featuring Melissa Eleftherion & Georgina Marie Guardado will broadcast live on Zoom and Facebook, Thursday, April 10.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
