Zoom Events: May 14, 15, 22, 28 & June 14

Explore how an intentional focus on place shapes the inner and outer landscapes of our writing. In this craft-centered session, place becomes more than a backdrop—it becomes a force that informs voice, character, and emotional stakes.
Aurora Bonner will share practical techniques for making place dynamic on the page. Through sensory detail, tone, and embodiment, writers will learn how to create vivid settings that do more than describe scenery. Instead, place can generate tension, deepen character, and shape the movement of a narrative. Through discussion and brief generative exercises, participants will experiment with ways to anchor their work in a strong sense of place while avoiding static description. Together, we’ll consider how landscapes interact with identity, memory, and lived experience to reveal deeper meaning and move a story forward. Open to writers of all genres and experience levels.
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for this workshop AND the 7:00pm workshop below (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

A craft workshop for writers wishing to tighten and shorten their manuscripts, with Ilona Bray and Stephen Soong. Building self-editing skills is crucial for polishing one’s work and for meeting current publication standards. Both presenters will discuss market trends, provide tips and tricks, and offer interactive exercises. Appropriate for writers working in any genre, from technical writing to fiction or fantasy to children’s picture books.
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for  this workshop AND the 6:00pm workshop above (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

This generative workshop with Clare Jones will offer writers of all genres a chance to connect both sides of their brain. First, we will play a few rounds of BOGGLE, to get ideas for topics and words that share sounds. Then we’ll build paragraphs, poems, and creative hybrids from what we discover together. We will also discuss a few writers who engage on the level of sound.
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for this workshop AND the 7:00pm reading below (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

Join us to hear five local writers! Fran Markover (poetry rooted in family history and everyday life), Caitlin Strong (a flash fiction story), Jhenah Telyndru (poetry),  Jim Mack (short speculative fiction), and Dr. Nia Nunn (poetry).
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for this reading AND the 6:00pm workshop above (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

Join Ithaca College students for an evening of storytelling: Poetry, prose, fiction, and more! with Cora Little, Oninye-Che Burge, Conner Hoffman, Pete Dorman, Ben Domenick Urbansky, Angelica (Angi) Snyder and Jessica Romero Silver.  ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE 

Setting intentions, establishing practices, and maintaining accountability around creative self care. The world is loud and hard, and most of us have day jobs, families, and other obligations that make us susceptible to burnout, especially when trying to balance those things with writing and other creative pursuits. This session with Aurora Rey will include a presentation on burnout symptoms and research as well as reflection activities and exercises that can help participants implement burnout prevention strategies in their writing and everyday lives.
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for  this workshop AND the 7:00pm reading below (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

Join us for a wonderful group reading with three poets and two novelists! Peter Fortunato (poems are soaring, searing truth-telling), Amir McClam (poetry), Lex E Santí (reading from his novel, The Song of the Midnight Rider), Laura Glenn (poems about contemporary life: trials and hope) and Rebecca Gopoian (reading from her novel First Rule of Fire)

ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE for this reading AND the 6:00pm workshop above (same form! Drop in for one or both.)

A reading of speculative poetry by African American poets on the theme of Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrates the years late arrival of the announcement of emancipation to the enslaved in Texas. The celebration has come to signify a celebration of freedom and liberty for all those previously enslaved. The poets include multi-award winning Linda Addison, Owolabe Aboyade, Sol’Sax, upfromsumdirt, and Grandmaster of Fantastic Poetry, Akua Lezli Hope. ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE