Tuesday, March 7, 2017 The Basement 21 Center Street (Down the drive, in back of building, next to the Northampton Police Department) Northampton, MA
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Featured Reader: MB Caschetta
MB Caschetta is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship for Emerging Artists, The Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and the Seattle Fiction Prize. Her debut novel MIRACLE GIRLS (Engine Books, 2014) was acclaimed as “darkly beautiful” in People Magazine. It won The 2015 USA Best Book Award for Literary Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Awards (IPPYs). Her newest book of short stories, PRETEND I'M YOUR FRIEND (Engine Books, 2016) was a People Magazine Pick-of-the-Week. Entertainment Weekly called it, “evocative…a complex tapestry of human experience."
Doors open at 7 - And you are welcome to read. If you'd like to, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes.
Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue.
SAVE THE DATE Featured Reader for April 4 - Jacqueline Sheehan
And don't forget ...
Playing with Reality Andrea Hairston March 11th, 10:30 – 12:00 pm** Click Workspace, 9-1/2 Market Street
Please join novelist, poet, and playwright Andrea Hairston for short readings from her work and conversation about the inspiration and craft of blurring the traditional boundaries of reality in one's writing. Come prepared to do a bit of writing.
Andrea Hairston is author of Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the 2011 Tiptree and Carl Brandon Awards, Mindscape, winner of the Carl Brandon Award, and Lonely Stardust, a collection of essays and plays. Her latest play, Thunderbird at the New World Theatre, appears in Geek Theater – 15 Plays by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers. Her third novel, Will do Magic for Small Change, is a New York Times editor’s pick. The short story, “Griots of the Galaxy,” appears in So Long Been Dreaming. “Saltwater Railroad” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. She has received grants from the NEA, MCC, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. In her spare time, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She bikes at night year round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light and breath, and the occasional shooting star.
** Bring a brown bag lunch so you can hang out afterward and carry on the conversation generated by the program.
The Easthampton BookFest was launched in 2015 to highlight the rich literary culture of the Pioneer Valley. This year, the festival will be a citywide event happening on April 9, 2017. Straw Dog Writers Guild will be there – join us!
If you are a Straw Dogs member with books to sell, consider participating at the Straw Dogs table during Bookfest on April 8, at Eastworks in Easthampton.
In exchange for managing the Straw Dogs table for an hour or two, a couple of your books can be for sale there all day.
