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Book Discussions, Online Book Groups, Book Lists, Book Awards
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Author Events:
CHRIS ROERDEN
SPEAKS
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 6:30 –
8:00 p.m., Downtown Library, Third Floor Program Room
Hear from veteran manuscript editor
Chris Roerden, Author of the Agatha Award Winning
Don’t Murder Your Mystery
and the forthcoming Don’t
Sabotage Your Submission…
Based on figures compiled from the Bowker’s
report of 42,076 new adult fiction titles published in 2006, and on
interviews with agents, who say one in a hundred manuscripts becomes a
published book, Roerden will provide specific
fiction-writing techniques on the basis of effectiveness.
OPEN READ:
Writers and Readers at Hartford
History Center
Thursday, June 26, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., Downtown
Library, Hartford
History Center,
3rd Floor
Hartford History
Center will present
“Open Read,” a new program for writers and readers. “Open
Read” provides writers of prose - fiction and non-fiction and either
self or industry published - the opportunity to read before an audience as
well as respond to questions. Each author will read for 10 minutes followed
by a 5 minute Q&A.
To
participate, the author must be a Hartford
resident or the book, essay and/or feature article be set in or about Hartford. This
criteria mirrors Hartford
History Center’s
collection statement. The library
will promote this program, but authors are asked to assist in developing
their own audience. To sign up to read, please call Hartford History
Center at (860)
695-6347. Once the June slots are filled, writers will be waitlisted to the
next “Open Read” on December 4, 2008.
Book Discussions:
THE DOWNTOWN
BOOK CLUB
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Downtown Library,
Peters Reading Place, 2nd Floor
Join friends and neighbors to discuss The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. Noted
for its accurate and sensitive depiction of traditional Chinese culture in
the early twentieth century, this popular novel won the Pulitzer Prize in
1932. Copies of the book are available at the Central Library and several
branches. Light refreshments.
Poetry Events:
RECITAL DE POESIA
BILINGUE:CELEBRANDO NUESTRO TALENTO
LOCAL
BILINGUAL POETRY RECITATION:CELEBRATING LOCAL TALENT
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 6:00 – 8:00
p.m., Downtown Library, Third Floor Program Room
Celebrate
National Poetry Month with an evening featuring readings by local poets and
an open microphone.
The
works of Luis Araya, Marta Soledad, and Evelyn Dominguez will be read in
Spanish. All adult and young adult aspiring poets are invited to share
poems, English and Spanish, during the open microphone session. If you
would like to share your work, you may pre-register at 695-6353 by leaving
your name and phone number.
Come and enjoy what promises to be a great night of poetry!
POETRY CENTRAL: A Branching Out Event: Hettie Jones on Beat Poets
Sunday,
May 18, 2008, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Downtown Library, Third Floor Program
Room
Poet and prose writer, Hettie Jones is the author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir
of the "beat scene" of the fifties and sixties. Her talk, The Beats Go On, addresses many
typical questions about this often-discussed group of writers such as: who
were the Beat Poets, why are they “beat” and what does that
mean? A look at their work, and the decades of the fifties and sixties in
which they wrote, will explain why they remain iconic figures in American
poetry.
Branching Out is a joint project of Poets House and the Poetry Society of
America and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Find
out more about Branching Out .
Writing Events:
Hartford Writer's
Group
Tuesdays, April 22, May
27, and June 24, 2008, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., Albany
Branch Library
If you have a passion for
writing, join us. All genres welcome. Bring copies of your original writing
for the group to read along. Light refreshments. For more information call
Albany Branch, 860-695-7380.
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