Katherine E. Young and Elizabeth Hazen Virtual Book Launch

Katherine E. Young and Elizabeth Hazen launch their respective poetry collections, Woman Drinking Absinthe and Girls Like Us, from the Writer’s Center.

RSVP HERE, and you’ll receive an email on or before April 17 with instructions for joining the chat via our video conferencing platform, Zoom. FREE and open to the public, all times Eastern. Limited space.

https://www.writer.org/event/hazen-young/

Reuben Jackson in Creative State of Our Union: Readings and Discussion [virtual event]

Enoch Pratt will host Reuben and a small panel of other authors included in their anthology This is What America Looks Like for a virtual reading and discussion. All are welcome.

Katherine E. Young to Read at the Virginia Festival of the Book (virtual)

From the website:

Hear poets Katherine E. Young (Woman Drinking Absinthe), Nin Andrews (The Last Orgasm), Sandra Beasley (Made to Explode), and Vijay Seshadri (That Was Now, This Is Then) read from their newest collections, offering poetry that explores connections between the ordinary and the profound, the landscapes and legacies of a life, the lyric of longing, the search for art as solace, and more.

As part of the Virginia Festival of the Book’s Shelf Life virtual series, this event is FREE to attend and open to the public. To attend, please register here at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shelf-lifeworlds-within-words-a-poetry-reading-tickets-149142694815 or simply make plans to watch on Facebook.com/VaBookFest. The video recording from this event will also be available to watch after the event concludes, on VaBook.org/Watch.

Reuben Jackson to Read and Present a Writing Prompt for the Alexandria Library (virtual)

From the Alexandria Library’s website:

Writing for My Life: Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri Reads for Alexandria Library (virtual)

From Alexandria Library’s website:

Katherine E. Young / Reston Readings (virtual event)

Join Katherine E. Young for an intimate reading from her newest collection of poetry, Woman Drinking Absinthe. Katherine will be joined by poets Elaine Chiew and Curtis Smith.

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Write with Reuben

From YWP:

“Join poet and YWP mentor Reuben Jackson for a fun online writing session on Wednesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m. EDT! Sign up for your Zoom invitation here! We’ll talk, write, share about what we’ve learned over this strange past year. For example, Reuben says, “I learned that as a flutist, I make a good reference librarian.” Sign up and we’ll see you there!”

Richard Peabody Reads at the Alexandria Library (virtual event)

Katherine E. Young / Readings on the Pike (virtual event)

Katherine E. Young will read as part of the much-lauded Readings on the Pike series.

More info here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/139782311403554

Katherine E. Young / Globus Book Store Reading and Discussion of Look at Him by Anna Starobinets (virtual event)

Join Katherine E. Young along with Jane Bugaeva, Muireann Maguire, Jamie Rann, and Svetlana Satchkova, and Zarina Zabrisky, for a discussion of Look at Him by Anna Starobinets (translated into English by Katherine E. Young).

https://www.globusbooks.com/events.php

This event will stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogNzhgTorWuUGb0MWIUg0w/videos

David Downie in Conversation with Don George (virtual event)

David Downie reads from his new novel, Red Riviera. Throughout, travel writer Don George talks with David about the book and his writing process. Presented by Left Coast Writers.

https://www.bookpassage.com/event/david-downie-don-george-red-riviera-online-event

@3pm ET

1455 festival features Rose Solari, Katherine E. Young, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, and Saida Agostini (virtual event)

Catch a full host of ASP authors and friends at the 1455 Festival. Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/09e46134-4022-438e-9297-72ee3f323a1d/summary

July 16th @10:30am Katherine E. Young Unspoken: New Writing on Losing a Child

Although nearly one-quarter of all pregnancies result in the loss of a child, pregnancy loss has traditionally been considered a “women’s issue” and remains largely unexplored in contemporary literature. Infertility, miscarriage, postpartum depression, and the grief associated with losing a child are themes that have also largely been neglected in literary works, both here in the U.S. and abroad. The four authors whose work features in this panel employ poetry, journalism, essay, and the prose memoir to reclaim and foreground this central human experience not just for women, but for their partners, spouses, families, communities, and societies in the U.S., Germany, and Russia.

July 16th @ 12pm Hannah Grieco Creative Nonfiction Editor Panel

What makes a work of creative nonfiction compelling and unforgettable? What’s the difference between literary nonfiction and the essays you see in freelance publications? What are nonfiction editors looking for in their literary submissions? Learn what editors want to read, what makes a piece stand out from the slush, and what mistakes writers often make when submitting their true stories to literary journals.

July 16th @ 1pm Saida Agostini In Praise of Grandmothers: Poems in Dialogue with Our Elders

We come together to honor inscribing inherited knowledge into our poems—the realities and lessons received from our grandparents’ generation. Too often powerful family stories are labeled “sentimental” by the academic workshop model. How do we reclaim them, and locate ourselves in a lineage of writers following the same instinct? Our panel of accomplished authors will discuss the intricacies of writing history and cultural inheritance into poems, providing brief illustrating readings from our work alongside our contemporaries.

July 16th @5:30 Linda Watanabe McFerrin & Rose Solari Telling Stories, Building Community

Everyone has a story to tell. The magic of sharing those stories is that while it can often be healing for the writer, it can also build bridges between peoples, cultures, groups, and nations. On this panel, four distinguished writers will discuss their own paths as builders of writing communities.