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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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 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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Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series curated and cohosted by Rachel Lyon and Sarah Bridgins. Find out who’s reading this month at http://www.ditmaslit.com/events.

Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series curated and cohosted by Rachel Lyon and Sarah Bridgins. Find out who’s reading this month at http://www.ditmaslit.com/events.

Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series curated and cohosted by Rachel Lyon and Sarah Bridgins. Find out who’s reading this month at http://www.ditmaslit.com/events.

The theme of October’s event is “Accident & Emergency.”

Literature Evenings—Fall 2019

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rachel Lyon is the author of the novel Self Portrait with Boy, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize and is in feature film development at Topic Studios. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Longreads, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Epiphany and cofounder of the reading series Ditmas Lit, in her native Brooklyn NY. View this event on the Bennington website.

Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series curated and cohosted by Rachel Lyon and Sarah Bridgins. Find out who’s reading this month at http://www.ditmaslit.com/events.