Regional Writers Showcase Winners Announced
April 3, 2018
Join us on Monday, April 30th, and Monday, May 14th at 7:00 PM for the 2018 Regional Writers’ Showcase, our annual collaboration with Geva Theatre Center.
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Join us on Monday, April 30th, and Monday, May 14th at 7:00 PM for the 2018 Regional Writers’ Showcase, our annual collaboration with Geva Theatre Center.
Scott Seifritz is the teacher of the upcoming How to Write Funny class at Writers & Books (four Wednesdays starting 4/11, 6:30 pm – 8:30
Breathing Fire is a safe space for youth ages 13-19 to explore the riveting power of self-expression through slam poetry/spoken word. Students will be introduced to diverse
It may not feel like it, but summer is just around the corner, and summer at Writers & Books equals SummerWrite! This year we have
I’ve lived in a variety of apartments during my adult life, but my favorite space would have to be the studio apartment I rented when
From my earliest memories I loved playing “make believe.” By six years old, my friends and I would spend hours in the basement with a
If procrastination were an art I’d be Picasso. I have a myriad of forms and techniques to delay and fail at achieving my goals. Each
Writers & Books Retreat Center Receives Grant Gell: A Finger Lakes Retreat prepares for expansion project
Writers & Books staff have a few of their favorite books from 2017 to share with you:
I’m Anais Salibian, and I’ve been teaching at Writers & Books since the late 1980’s. I had a longing to be a writer, so I
Youth Department Winter/Spring Internship Writers & Books internships offer candidates the chance to work in a creative and dynamic workplace and the opportunity to learn
Rochester, NY: Writers & Books is excited to announce The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande as the selection for the 2018 Rochester Reads program. Grande will be
My junior year at Oberlin College, I took a class in music technology. Our “classroom” was a tiny sound-studio in the basement of the conservatory
A “work of fictional nonfiction,” this inventive book reveals, in stunning prose, the story of Chabon’s grandfather, a man who said little in his lifetime
For Immediate Release: August 12, 2017 Media Contact(s): Melissa Cole, 646-221-7652, [email protected] Show info: www.mo-to-the-oncle.com, facebook.com/mototheoncle/, twitter.com/MELISSANTHROPE, instagram.com/MELISSANTHROPE Fringe info: rochesterfringe.com, www.facebook.com/RochesterFringeFestival, @RochesterFringe, instagram.com/rochester_fringe, #rocfringe17 MO-TO-THE-ONCLE AT 2017 FRINGE The award-winning solo comedy makes its Rochester debut
For Immediate Release: August 14, 2017 Media Contacts: David Jacobs, 415-860-5027, [email protected] Fringe Info: rochesterfringe.com, facebook.com/ RochesterFringeFestival, @RochesterFringe, instagram.com/rochester_fringe, #rocfringe DAVID JACOBS PRESENTS: “HALFWAY HOME”
“Once more, we will charge the air with our voices, dance, drum, sing, write and ruminate, hold creative sacred space and commune with like-minded women.
BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE MEMOIR People who love to write generally have strong emotional associations with certain words. For example, I love the word “emphatic.” It
W&B and RIT/NTID present author Harry Lang Harry Lang author of Fighting in the Shadows: Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War at
Excellent. Instructors were well prepared and attentive. Student participation and level of writing excellent as well. Participant – Fiction Intensive| July 2017 | Ralph Uttaro.
I got hooked on blogging in 2009 when I became Deputy Editorial Page Editor for the Democrat and Chronicle. In addition to writing editorials and
