Generative Texts Salon

St. Rocco’s Salon at Kiddie Pool in Downtown Albany.Chatbots and Python outputs, cut-ups and surrealist games: a variety of approaches to generative text. With Kite, Chris Funkhouser, & more. Games […]

Friends Book Talk: Gene Damm

Gene Damm, former journalist, former president of FAPL, & current board member of FFAPL presents Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by Laura Meckler at the Washington […]

Friends Book Talk: Sílvia Mejía

Sílvia Mejía, PhD, professor of Spanish, Latin American Literature, & Film, also Chair, Dept. of World Languages & Cultures, The College of Saint Rose presents Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond […]

Next Year’s Words: A New Paltz Reading Forum

Be Part of the Tenth Season of Next Year’s Words!  Come to the Next Readers Forum:  Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 7:30 at Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz, New YorkThe […]

Friends Author Talk: Michael Sinclair

Michael Sinclair discusses & reads from his latest novel, a 1920s mystery, Darker Than The Night at the Washington Ave branch of the Albany Public Library. Open to all ages.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding

Join the NYS Writers Institute on Thursday, January 25, for a pair of conversations with Paul Harding, the first events of our 41st season.Thursday, January 25 4:30 p.m. Craft Talk, […]

NYS Writers Institute: Elizabeth Benedict

Author of the eternally popular how-to book, The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers (1996), Elizabeth Benedict applies her talents to retelling the story of her recent […]

A Galère of Poetic Autopsies

“A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” is held the first Thursday of each month at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson […]

St. Rocco’s Readings for the Dispossessed with Royer + Tetreault + Voet

College of Saint Rose Standish Rooms, Saint Rose Events and Athletics Center (second floor), 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

St. Rocco’s Readings for the Dispossessed welcomes you to our penultimate reading at the College of Saint Rose Centennial Hall.An afternoon of readings to welcome Ric Royer and his “Niagara […]