
COMING SOON
Alexis De Veaux Moderator

To Be Announced
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
~ Readings & Special Events ~
Since our first Festival of Women Writers in 2013, we have upheld the tradition of Public Readings of their creative work by our distinguished Invited Authors.
Additionally, special informative and provocative programs have been offered to the community to broaden the Festival's accessibility.
ALL READINGS & PROGRAMS ARE FREELY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
READING 1
Friday 6/8/25
2:00pm - 3:00pm
at the Tent at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue
FESTIVAL OPENING Readers:

CHERYL CLARKE

VALERIE COLE
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SALLY SIMON
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SPECIAL MULTI-MEDIA EVENT
Book Art Presentation and Poetry Reading with Open Panel Discussion
Lisa presents a special Book Art Presentation & Poetry Reading of I Know How to be Helpful with Open Panel Discussion.
Join the creators of I Know How to be Helpful, a letterpress book of a poem of the same name, by Lisa Wujnovich. The book speaks in the inside and outside voice of a 12-year-old girl who is coerced into a dangerous car ride by a stranger.
I Know How to be Helpful, Z’roah Press, 2024, limited edition of 24 copies, was created by the book artists, Roni Gross and Peter Schell, and is a Minnesota Center for Book Art Prize Semi-finalist 2024.
A film of the unfolding of the art book by filmmaker, David Dawkins, will be shown overlaid with a live reading, followed by a panel discussion about the making of the book and the importance of voice in empowering and protecting girls’ and women’s bodies in today’s political climate.
Friday 6/7/25
3:15pm - 4:30pm
at the United Methodist Church Coffee Hour Room
at 204 Maple Avenue, Hobart NY

LISA WUJNOVICH
Photo Courtesy of Lisa Wujnovich
READING 2
Saturday 6/8/25
1:00pm - 2:15pm
at the Tent at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue
Readers:

STEPHANIE COTSIRILOS
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RURH FRANKLIN
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MIHO KINNAS
IRENA KLEPFISZ
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Saturday 6/7/25
4:45pm -5:45pm
READING 3
FLASH READINGS
- by Various Returning Festival Writers
at the Tent at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue
READING 4
Sunday 6/8/24
11:30pm - 12:30pm
Sunday 6/8/25
11:30pm - 12:30pm
FESTIVAL CLOSING Readers:

MARGOT FARRINGTON
Photo Courtesy of Dos Madres Press

BERTHA ROGERS
Photo Courtesy of Nick Kelsh

SOPHFRONIA SCOTT
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