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North Adams, MA - Inkberry and Papyri Books sponsor Wordplay this Saturday, January 12 at 7:00 pm. Guest reader is Eileen Gloster. Refreshments and open mic will follow. Papyri Books is on 45 Eagle Street. Call 662.2099 for more information. The Papyri Gallery features the work of Gillian Jones in January and February, and open Monday through Friday from 12:00 6:00 PM, Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 12-4 pm.
NORTH ADAMS, MA‹ Saturday, November 10, at 7:00 p.m. WordPlay, a monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books, will be held at Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street.
November¹s WordPlay will highlight the work of fiction writer Bill Belcher, who will read from, Galesville Rag, his novel-in-progress about a young man who wins, then betrays, the confidence of a musician who was once the voice of a generation.
Belcher received his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. He has taught fiction writing at the Saratoga County Arts Center, and he has served as the Workshop Facilitator of Inkberry¹s Thursday Night Critique group since 2006.
Gail Burns of Williamstown will host the event for Inkberry.
After the reading, there will be a brief intermission, followed by the popular WordPlay open mic. Refreshments will be available, and admission is free and open to the public.
For additional information regarding Inkberry or these readings, contact Inkberry by phone at (413) 664-0775 or visit www.inkberry.org.
About Inkberry Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate and support writing and reading. Inkberry is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
North Adams, MA - Local writer Seth Brown has recently published a new book - "Rhode Island Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff." A reading/signing/refreshments event at Papyri Books (45 Eagle Street, NA) will celebrate the occasion on Saturday, September 15th from 2:00-4:00 pm.
NORTH ADAMS, MA Over the summer, incoming freshmen to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) read Dont I Know You? a murder mystery by Williamstown author Karen Shepard, who will be on campus Monday, Sept. 3, to discuss her book from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Church Street Center. The event, which is free and open to the public, will include a musical performance by alt-country band Gloria Deluxe. A book signing reception will follow in the Church Street Center social hall, from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
First-year students at MCLA are asked to participate in a summer reading project that allows them to read a common book during the summer and then come to campus to discuss it and the issues that it raises.
A Chinese-American born and raised in New York City who teaches writing and literature at Williams College, Shepard is the author of three novels, An Empire of Women, The Bad Boys Wife, and, most recently, Dont I Know You? a murder mystery set in 1976 New York City. The psychological drama is divided into three parts, with each narrative giving the reader a different angle on the crime.
According to Publishers Weekly, Shepards vision of how a murders effect reverberates outward inspires us to understand the limitations of intimate knowledge and the extraordinary capacities of the people we think we know best, even as it shows us how we repair those bonds and prepare ourselves to go on.
The New York Times Book Review called the book, Darkly tantalizing. It succeeds brilliantly. O. The Oprah Magazine said, Shepard has found a voice here that is as strong and confident and full of wise observation as any in recent American fiction. And author Tim OBrien wrote that, Dont I Know You? is Among the most suspenseful and moving novels Ive read in many years.
Shepard has received the William Goyen-Doris Roberts Fellowship for Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, won honorable mentions in Best American Short Stories in 1995, 2002 and 2004, was a National Magazine Award Finalist in 2002, and a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in 2002.
For more information, go to http://reading.mcla.edu.
North Adams, MA - Edible Wild Plants of the Northeast will be presented on Saturday, June 9 from 2:00 – 3:30 PM at the North Adams Public Library. Admission is free and all ages are welcome. The program is sponsored by the North Adams Public Library and is presented by Naturalist/Educator John Root. Call 413-662-3133 for more information.
North Adams, MA - On June 9, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Papyri Books and Inkberry sponsor WordPlay as host Gail Burns welcomes Charles O'Brien, author of the Anne Cartier mystery series, reading from his most recent book, Cruel Choices. Refreshments and open mic to follow. Papyri Books is at 45 Eagle Street, and holds WordPlay on the second Saturday of each month.
North Adams, MA - Inkberry is offering a fiction workshop that will meet online every Monday from June 18 to July 23. The course will explore linked short fiction, a hybrid form between the traditional short story collection and the novel which offers unique opportunities to explore character, place, theme, and voice. The cost of the workshop is $100.00. To sign up for it or for additional information regarding Inkberry or this course, contact Inkberry by phone at 413-664-0775.
NORTH ADAMS, MA - On Friday, May 4, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Inkberry and Papyri Books present the release and reading of work from Cacophony, a chapbook featuring students from Inkberry's bi-weekly college workshop. Sarah Russell, the facilitator of the workshop and co-editor of the chapbook, will host the event, which will be held at Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street in North Adams.
Copies of Cacophony will be available at the reading, along with refreshments, and admission is free and open to the public. For additional information regarding Inkberry or these readings, contact Inkberry by phone at (413) 664-0775 or visit www.inkberry.org.
About Inkberry ¬ Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate and support writing and reading. Inkberry is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
NORTH ADAMS, MA - On Saturday, May 12, at 7:00 p.m. WordPlay, a monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books, will be held at Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street in North Adams. Gail Burns will host the event for Inkberry, at which featured writer, J. Peter Bergman will read from his new works of poetry and fiction. He will also include a few pieces by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Mr. Bergman's book of short fiction Counterpoints, published in 1999, won a Charles Dickens Award in 2002. A playwright, whose work has been produced regularly for the past six years, he also directs and acts and is the principal author for the recently acclaimed musical theater radio show Up With the Curtain.
A resident of Pittsfield, he is the Executive Director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society and a freelance writer and publicist whose work appears regularly in Berkshires Week and the magazine section of The Berkshire Eagle. His theater criticism is now a regular feature of The Advocate.
After the reading, there will be a brief intermission, followed by the popular WordPlay open mic. Refreshments will be available, and admission is free and open to the public.
For additional information regarding Inkberry or these readings, contact Inkberry by phone at (413) 664-0775 or visit www.inkberry.org.
Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate and support writing and reading. Inkberry is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Williamstown, MA – Ray McGinnis, author of “Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-Inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry” (Northstone, April 2005), is coming to the First Congregational Church of Williamstown to teach a workshop on writing sacred poetry on Wednesday, May 16 from 7-9:30 pm. The workshop is being co-sponsored by Inkberry, which is handling registration for the event.
A Writing the Sacred workshop explores the Psalms as a doorway to spiritual self-expression by inviting people to discover the poetic forms and themes of the Hebrew Psalms and draw upon these to help articulate their own longing for the sacred. As with his book which in one chapter contains over thirty new sacred poems by writers from a variety of perspectives from both within and outside of organized religion, McGinnis offers a wide invitation for participants to give voice to their own cries of the spirit.
McGinnis guides participants and gives them the tools to compose new psalms/sacred poems for the 21st Century. As a designer of conferences and workshops for over 25 years, he creates a very accessible and inclusive setting. By providing a wide variety of writing exercises, he frees both seasoned writers and those who have never put pen to paper to write with freedom.
A graduate of the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver, Colorado, McGinnis has taught writing workshops since 1999 through his home based business, Write to the Heart©. He has taught a range writing workshops including journal writing, prayer writing, writing for health and wellness, poetry and nature writing, and spiritual autobiography workshops. McGinnis has led workshops for groups as diverse as women in business conferences, lawyers retreats, hospital professionals and hospital chaplains groups, hospice groups, writing groups, libraries, high schools, churches, synagogues, community centres and retreat settings.
A former staff member of the Naramata Centre (1995-99), McGinnis also has served at the United Church's Division of Mission in Canada (1986-95) including oversight of curriculum development, publication of a Youth Magazine, and print resources for youth and young adult ministry. While there he planned national conferences for youth and young adults. McGinnis has kept a journal for over 20 years. A writer for Seasons of the Spirit Online, McGinnis is also a writer for the Seasons of the Spirit curiculum for 12-14 year olds for the 2007-8 Pentecost season. He worships at Canadian Memorial United Church in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.
Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-Inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry (Northstone, April 2005), is McGinnis' first book. It is available in the USA through The Pilgrim Press and will be available for purchase at the workshop. For more information visit his web site at www.writetotheheart.com
The registration fee is $15 per person and registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. To register, call Inkberry at 413-664-0775 or register online at www.inkberry.org. The First Congregational Church-United Church of Christ is centrally located at 906 Main Street (Rt. 2) opposite the top of Spring Street in Williamstown, MA. The building is fully handicap accessible and parking is available in the church lot located behind the building, off of Chapin Hall Drive.
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