August
Word Up Next
Word Up Next is a listing of writers’ events in Salem and nearby towns. Want to add something to the calendar? Email ellorelizabeth@gmail.com.
Weekly Writing Studios at the Salem Athenaeum. The building will be open from 9:45-12:00 every Tuesday (unless announced otherwise). Feel free to come by and write in a quiet peaceful setting. Come for as long as you’d like–for 20 minutes or all three hours.
September
Weekly Writing Studios at the Salem Athenaeum. The building will be open from 9:45-12:00 every Tuesday (unless announced otherwise). Feel free to come by and write in a quiet peaceful setting. Come for as long as you’d like–for 20 minutes or all three hours.
All are welcome to bring work-in-progress to share with the group for feedback. The group is facilitated by J.D. Scrimgeour, Professor of English, Salem State University.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with the Powow River Poets! Readings are free, accessible, and open to the public. The poets reading this month are Catherine Chandler and James Najarian. Come early to sign up for open mic!
Weekly Writing Studios at the Salem Athenaeum. The building will be open from 9:45-12:00 every Tuesday (unless announced otherwise). Feel free to come by and write in a quiet peaceful setting. Come for as long as you’d like–for 20 minutes or all three hours.
The Ipswich Poetry Group meets upstairs on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month at 6:30pm to share poems in progress and give and receive feedback. All are welcome! Email ipswichpoetrygroup@gmail.com with questions or call Sarah at 617-584-7025.
On Sunday, September 16th, the Poetry Salon at the Abbot Public Library commences with a discussion of the influence of Emily Dickinson on contemporary poetry. One of the greatest American poets, Dickinson has influenced many poets, including Marbleheader Claire Keyes, who will present some of her poems and address Dickinson’s impact on her.
Weekly Writing Studios at the Salem Athenaeum. The building will be open from 9:45-12:00 every Tuesday (unless announced otherwise). Feel free to come by and write in a quiet peaceful setting. Come for as long as you’d like–for 20 minutes or all three hours.
All are welcome to bring work-in-progress to share with the group for feedback. The group is facilitated by J.D. Scrimgeour, Professor of English, Salem State University.
Salem Literary Festival
Author readings, panels, talks, signings and family activities
Opening Keynote Madeline Miller, author of #1 New York Times bestseller, Circe
Janet Benton
Eric Jay Dolin
Jane C. Esther
Julia Glass
Hannah Kimberly
Stephen McCauley
Matthew Phillion
David Roper
Paul Tremblay
Meghan Weir
Joan Wilking
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Author and Cartoonist Mark Parisi will speak about his transition from cartoons to his novels “Marty Pants” Appropiate for ages kindergarten and up |
Our Readers & Writers Guild meets the third Friday of select months to hear a featured reader as well as share open mic time, peruse attendee’s books for sale, and enjoy pot luck refreshments. All are welcome!
Paul’s poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and Best of the Net. He has been published in Poetry, Passages North, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, New Delta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Poetry East, The Sun, and many other journals and anthologies.
I’m so pleased to announce the Witch City Writers’ very first writing retreat to be held at The Word Barn at 66 Newfields Road, Exeter, New Hampshire.
Our agenda will include:
– Introductions
– Writing prompt(s)
– Time to write together
– Speaker: Ursula DeYoung, GrubStreet instructor and author of SHORECLIFF
– Q&A
– Happy hour to follow at The Thirsty Moose (please RSVP for the happy hour via its own meetup–coming soon)
Weekly Writing Studios at the Salem Athenaeum. The building will be open from 9:45-12:00 every Tuesday (unless announced otherwise). Feel free to come by and write in a quiet peaceful setting. Come for as long as you’d like–for 20 minutes or all three hours.
We are a Beverly-based writing group. For inquiries, please contact Liz Ciampa at erc7@comcast.net
The library hosts a monthly poetry series with an open mic. Each month there will be a featured poet followed by a discussion, an open mic and light refreshments. Stephen Wagner, Amesbury Poet Laureate, hosts this event.
The Ipswich Poetry Group meets upstairs on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month at 6:30pm to share poems in progress and give and receive feedback. All are welcome! Email ipswichpoetrygroup@gmail.com with questions or call Sarah at 617-584-7025.
October
Saturday, October 6, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Writing Prompt Workshop with Scribbler’s Ink
Nahant, Ma
Do you love to write? Do you think you might like to write? Did you used to love to write before your inner critic took your muse hostage? No matter if you are an aspiring or a seasoned writer, one rule is the same of all; you need to put pen to paper and write.
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Saturday, October 6, 11 am – 1:30 pm
North Shore Poets’ Forum: Roberta Hung, TBA
Beverly Public Library, 32 Essex St, Beverly
Each meeting will feature a presentation on a poet, movement or form that should be of general interest to members. After the program, members are encouraged to bring an original poem and six to 10 copies for members to offer gentle critique. For more info
Saturday, October 6, 2:00 pm
Scary Stories – New England Premiere!
Peabody Essex Museum
Over the course of its three volume run, Arthur Schwartz’s Scary Stories introduced children to urban legends and folk tales of terror, featuring ghastly illustrations now infamous for making them the most frequently banned books of our time. This documentary follows the author’s son, Peter Schwartz, in an exploration of the collection’s legacy, and many controversies, with interviews from iconic children’s authors R.L. Stine, Debbie Dadey, Bruce Coville, and Q.L. Pearce
Wednesday, October 10, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ipswich Poetry Group
Ipswich Library, Collins Room, 25 N Main St, Ipswich
The Ipswich Poetry Group meets upstairs on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month at 6:30pm to share poems in progress and give and receive feedback. All are welcome! Email ipswichpoetrygroup@gmail.com with questions or call Sarah at 617-584-7025.
Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Writers Series: Ann Taylor
Ellison Campus Center, Salem State University, 1 Meier Drive, Salem, MA 01970, Metro Room
Ann Taylor is a Professor of English at Salem State University in Salem, Mass. where she teaches both literature and writing courses. She has written two books on college composition, Short Model Essays (Little Brown) and Shaping the Short Essay (Harper Collins) and a collection of personal essays, Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing (Ragged Mountain/McGraw Hill). Her first poetry book, The River Within, won first prize in the 2011 Cathlamet Poetry competition at Ravenna Press. A chapbook, Bound Each to Each, was published in 2013 (Finishing Line Press). Her most recent collection, published in 2018, Héloïse and Abélard: the Exquisite Truth (Word Tech Communications) is based on the famous twelfth-century story of their lives. She is now working on a manuscript entitled In the Writing Zone.