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Writers Salon features emerging and established writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, local to the Catskills and beyond. Join us every third Thursday at Wilber Mansion, 7:30 PM. Free and open to the public.
We’re grateful to Community Arts Network of Oneonta for supporting this reading series. CANO is committed to building literary community in Otsego County.
2022-2023 CALENDAR
February 16 // Peter Murphy (poetry)
March 16 // Catskill Community Players, Love or Best Offer
April 20 // Lesley Diehl (fiction)
SERIES CURATORS
Racheal Fest (PhD) is a writer and critic based in Central New York. Her work on US culture and politics has appeared in online and peer-reviewed venues, including boundary 2, Entropy, Jump Cut, Mediations, and Politics/Letters. She is also a Pedagogy Specialist at SUNY Oneonta. She joined Writers Salon in 2022.
April Ford's books include an award-winning novel, Carousel, and story collection, The Poor Children, and a chapbook of poems, Death Is a Side-Effect. She’s a Pushcart Prize recipient for her short story “Project Fumarase,” and has enjoyed fully funded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Ucross Foundation. Her essay “I Will Tell You This Much, and Then We’ll Never Talk About It” was selected as a Finalist for The Lascaux Review’s 2021 Prize in Creative Nonfiction and is forthcoming this year in the Review’s prize anthology.
APPLY TO READ
Think you’d be a good fit for our series? Get in touch! We're always looking to invite published writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama to read in Oneonta. We also sometimes host interdisciplinary performers. Send a brief bio (no more than 500 words) and CV to writers-salon@canoneonta.org. Thanks to CANO, we are able to offer accepted writers a modest honorarium.
VOLUNTEER
Looking to support local writers and the Oneonta literary community more directly? We're looking for volunteers to help us keep this monthly series running. Whether you're interested in assisting with live events (setup and clean up, bartending), collaborating with us, or promoting us on social media and IRL, we'd love to hear from you. Write to us at writers-salon@canoneonta.org.
PAST READERS
Michael Peters, Iris Cushing, Jesse Hilson, Robert Bensen, Bertha Rogers, George Hovis, Lynne Kemen, Julene Waffle, Marly Youmans, April L. Ford, Alice Lichtenstein, Daniel Payne, Tom Travisano, Gary Koutnik, Mike Tamburrino, Pam Strother, Harry Barnes, Jim Louden, Brent Delanoy, Carol Ohmart Behan, Cheryl Petersen, Mona Sen, Leslie T. Sharpe, Jo Mish, Kirby Olson, Deborah Blake, Michael Blaine, Austin Bunn, Libby Cudmore, Jennifer R. Donohue, the Oneonta Freewriters, Ginnah Howard, Adrienne Martini, Jim Mullen, Gustavo Arango, Maya Chinchilla, Shannon Delaney, Chuck D’Imperio, Swamiji Tirtha, David Mills, Lisa Wujnovich, and the Smithy Writers’ Circle.
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