Join a Community Reading / Word Share with PVWW students, instructors, community members, to share recent writing or read a favorite poem, passage, or other text. Reading order and signup will happen in the first ten minutes of the gathering. Featured final reader: Rachel Lyon, author of two novels (Fruit of the Dead and Self-Portrait with Boy). Register and find more information at https://www.pioneervalleywriters.org/service-page/march-community-reading-with-rachel-lyon.

Launch event for Sarah Bridgins’ book of poetry DEATH AND EXES.

Launch event for Blair Hurley’s novel MINOR PROPHETS.

Join the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop for a PVWW Fall Reading at beautiful Park Hill Orchard, in Florence MA! The lineup includes many of this season's instructors, local authors, and former PVWW students. We'll be on the Willow Stage, and readings will be happening from 1 - 3pm, with an hour afterward for mingling and meeting fellow writers and local community. If you've been craving in-person writerly community, we hope you join us! There really isn't a more magical spot in the valley.

The Willow Stage, where the reading will happen, is close to the bathrooms and to Park Hill Orchard's farm stand, which offers fresh cider, donuts, seasonal fruit, and other treats. After the reading, stroll around the orchard and see the many artworks embedded and nestled in the trees and groves (Park Hill Orchard hosts "Art in the Orchard" every year, a season-long display of outdoor artworks by local and regiional artists.)

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This informational class with former West Branch associate editor and PVWW Founder-Director Joy Baglio and author and Epiphany Editor-in-Chief Rachel Lyon (who will join us for two hours as a special guest) will cover everything you need to know related to publishing short stories and flash fiction. We'll talk about the different pathways available for those who wish to publish in literary magazines, the submissions process (including the different kinds of literary magazines out there), what editors care most about, getting your work to stand out in the slush pile, dealing with rejection, and what happens after an acceptance. Writers will have an opportunity to receive feedback (in class) on the first paragraph of a submissions-ready piece. For those new to submitting/publishing short fiction, as well as those who've been submitting for a while who want a deeper look at the process. Come with any and all questions related to these topics. Informational, lecture-based, with Q&A / feedback time. Class size: 15 spots.

Epiphany presents a discussion and book club about Elena Ferrante's "The Lying Life of Adults," featuring Ann Goldstein, Ferrante's American translator, and Michael Reynolds of Europa Editions, moderated by novelist Rachel Lyon. Register here.

ANN GOLDSTEIN is an American editor and translator from the Italian language. She is best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet.

MICHAEL REYNOLDS is the editor-in-chief of Europa Editions. He was born in Australia in 1968 and now lives in New York with his family.

RACHEL LYON is the author of SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOY (Scribner 2018), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. She is the editor-in-chief of Epiphany.

THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS is a powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

“There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year.”—Elle

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.

Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape.

Dixon Place Presents the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. Since 2007 the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series has featured readings from emerging and established authors. This reading will be broadcast on Zoom. Register here.

Rachel Lyon is the author of SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOY, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including One Story, Longreads, Joyland, and Electric Literature. Editor-in-Chief of Epiphany magazine and cofounder of the reading series Ditmas Lit, Rachel has taught at Catapult, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Slice Literary, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, her hometown.

Gina Marie Guadagnino is the author of THE PARTING GLASS. She holds a BA in English from New York University, and an MFA in creative writing from the New School. Her work has appeared in the Morris-Jumel Mansion Anthology of Fantasy and Paranormal Fiction and Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader).

Leila Rafei is the author of SPRING, her debut novel to be released in August 2020. Her writing has appeared in news outlets including DC Magazine, Muftah, and Mondoweiss. She grew up in the Washington, DC area, came of age in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in New York, where she works in communications at the ACLU

Join Ed Winstead of Guernica, Lou Ann Walker of The Southampton Review, and Rachel Lyon of Epiphany, for a conversation about editing and publishing at literary journals. This event will be broadcast on Stony Brook University’s MFA YouTube channel, Bob’s Writing Shack. Tune in on YouTube on 4/22 at 1 PM.

Join us on March 31st for Episode 2, featuring novelists Andrew Altschul (THE GRINGA), Rachel Lyon (SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY) and Michael Seidlinger (DREAMS OF BEING). They'll each read for about 10 minutes, followed by a short Q&A with the online audience.

UPDATE: Watch this event on LitHub’s Virtual Book Channel.

Join Write For Democracy for an evening of readings, refreshments, and music to raise money for You Can Vote, which registers and mobilizes North Carolina voters from traditionally underrepresented communities.

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Join Books Are Magic and Epiphany as we celebrate Epiphany’s Fall/Winter 2019 issue release and reading, hosted by EIC Rachel Lyon and featuring contributors Jill Eisenstadt, Megan Milks, Nadia Owusu, Jacob Rogers, Ryan Teitman, Jeanne Thornton, Leah Umansky, and Avra Wing. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

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