UPCOMING EVENTS
We are thrilled to announce the next two readings in our series. The summer reading, Thursday, August 8, 2013 (7 p.m.), will feature Vermont poets and fiction writers Michael Collier, Cleopatra Mathis, Partridge Boswell, and Angela Palm.
The autumn reading, Thursday, November 21, 2013 (7 p.m.), presents Vermont authors Julia Alvarez, John Elder, Christopher Shaw, and Jessica Nelson reading from their recent nonfiction.
More information about these authors will be posted closer to the reading date.
Samples from past readings are available at our YouTube channel and on Facebook.
WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?
Janice Obuchowski
Sponsored by the New England Review, with support from Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, the Vermont Book Shop, and Middlebury Community TV, the NER Vermont Reading Series provides an opportunity for Vermont writers to read their work in front of an audience, and to acquaint local audiences with the talented writers who live and work among us. The series presents not only authors who’ve published in the New England Review and elsewhere, but also those just starting out, who may be unpublished and reading their work for the first time.
That Vermont is home to more writers per capita than any other state in the nation is a testament not only to the natural beauty of our surroundings and the possibilities for solitude and contemplation, but also to the great traditions and institutions that support our literary artists when the time comes to share their work. Published by Middlebury College since 1987, New England Review is proud of its own tradition of advancing the literary arts, bringing both new and known writers to a national reading public, and endeavors through the NER Vermont Reading Series to help bring about a similar convergence of voices here in our home state.
Our previous events have featured Eliza Gilmore, Major Jackson, Thomas Kivney, and Henriette Lazaridis Power (April 2013); Eileen Brunetto, Jon Mathewson, Julia Shipley, and Jacob White (January 2013); Benjamin Aleshire, Larry Bradley, Bette Moffett, and Marguerite Sullivan (November 2012); Megan Mayhew-Bergman, Hugh Coyle, Lené Gary, and Tim Weed (August 2012); Joan Aleshire, Arthur Bloom, Kristin Fogdall, and Kerrin McCadden (April 2012); Jennifer Bates, Maya Beres, Karin Gottshall, Carolyn Kuebler, Christopher Ross, Jeffrey David Stauch, and David Weinstock in a special Addison County edition of the series, “Will Write for Love,” on Valentine’s Day 2012; Stephen Kiernan, Chloë Joan López, Daniel Lusk, and Neil Shepard (January 2012); Ellen Dudley, Estela Gonzalez, Sydney Lea, and Leath Tonino (November 2011); David Huddle, Gary Margolis, Janice Obuchowski, and Angela Patten (August 2011); and Kellam Ayres, Castle Freeman Jr., Ted Gilley, and Kathryn Kramer (April 2011).
Clips from some of these readings are available NER Vermont’s YouTube channel, with filming care of Middlebury Community TV.
RECRUITING WRITERS TO PARTICIPATE
David Huddle
Each event in the quarterly NER Vermont Reading Series will feature four writers. While we’re looking forward to cultivating our existing Vermont literary friendships, we’re also eager to discover and feature writers who aren’t yet established. We encourage writers who are residents of Vermont and wish to be considered for a reading spot to contact series coordinator Christopher Ross. Send him an email with a sample of your work (about 10 pages, attached as a PDF) and your current town of residence to NER.Vermont@gmail.com.
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To join the NER Vermont Reading Series mailing list, send an email to NER.Vermont@gmail.com. To join the general NER mailing list, email NEReview@middlebury.edu.
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