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.

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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 9/6/19

1:45pm - 2:45pm

at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue

PUBLIC COVERSATION

Friday 9/6/19

3pm - 5pm

at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue

Alexis De Veaux  Moderator

This public conversation sponsored by the Hobart Women Writers Festival that invites festival participants and the broader community to think together about a series of questions, specifically-what does it mean to be a writer in these times? What are “these times” to and for us as writers?

Are they different given our particular identifications/localities/literary genres? What is “the news”/what are the issues occupying our writings today? How are we expressing a practice of language in our writing? Are we drawing on the language practices of writers who’ve come before us/who are contemporaries? Is the idea of “possibility” evidenced in our work?

Kathy Engel 

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

READING  2

Saturday 9/7/19

1:45pm - 2:45pm

at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue

READING  3

Saturday 9/7/19

4pm - 5pm

at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue

READING  4

Sunday 9/8/19

12:45pm - 1:45pm

at the Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Avenue