NER Vermont Reading Series

October 10 at 7 pm

September 5, 2019

from left: Emily Arnason Casey, Rahat Huda, Sara London, Sarah Wolfson

Join us for an evening of new writing with poets Sara London and Sarah Wolfson, essayist Emily Arnason Casey, and fiction writer Rahat Huda, at the Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main Street, Middlebury, VT.

Light refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.

Emily Arnason Casey’s debut collection of essays, Made Holy, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. She has been an instructor at the Community College of Vermont, Winooski, since 2012, and her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, The Normal School,Hunger Mountain, and other journals. Originally from northern Minnesota, she now lives with her family in Orwell, Vermont.

Rahat Huda is a junior at Middlebury College. Originally from New York, she writes about the city in all its hectic glory. She spends any spare time she has daydreaming about adopting a pitbull after graduation.

Sara London is the author of Upkeep (Four Way Books, 2019) and The Tyranny of Milk (Four Way Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Common, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Hudson Review. She grew up in California and Vermont and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches at Smith College and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Sarah Wolfson is the author of the debut poetry collection A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including AGNI, The Fiddlehead, Michigan Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches writing at McGill University.

The NER Vermont Reading Series is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop. To be added to our events email list, please send a message to NER.Vermont@gmail.com.

NER Presents 3 New Fiction Writers

Thursday, April 18, 7 pm

March 21, 2019

Brad Felver, David Moats, and Kylie Winger will read at the Vermont Book Shop

Join us on April 18 for a reading at the Vermont Book Shop with three fiction writers: Brad Felver, whose debut collection of stories, The Dogs of Detroit, won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize; David Moats, a well-known Vermont journalist whose new fiction appears in the current issue of NER; and Kylie Winger, a Middlebury College senior and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum.

The reading will begin at 7 pm at the Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main Street, Middlebury, VT. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

Brad Felver is author of the story collection The Dogs of Detroit (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His other honors include the O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize special mention, and the Zone 3 Fiction Prize. His fiction and essays have appeared widely in magazines such as One Story, New England Review, Hunger Mountain, and Colorado Review. “City of Glass,” his essay about boxing and the city of Toledo, appears in the spring 2018 issue of NER. He lives with his wife and kids in northern Ohio.

David Moats was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in California. For many years he worked as an editor at the Rutland Herald in Vermont, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2001. He is the author of the book Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage, published by Harcourt in 2004. He is also the author of numerous plays, most recently An Afternoon in France, which was performed in Middlebury, Vermont, in 2012. “The Incident,” in the current issue of NER, is his first published fiction. He lives in Salisbury, Vermont.

Kylie Winger is a senior at Middlebury College from Medford, OR, and Elgin, IL. A literary studies major, she also attended the 2017 summer session at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received a Middlebury student scholarship in fiction to attend the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is currently an intern at NER, where she does everything from addressing envelopes and updating the website to creating new episodes of the NER Out Loud podcast.

Co-sponsored by New England Review and the Vermont Book Shop

NER Vermont at the Marquis Theater

Join us Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm

March 15, 2018

New England Review’s Vermont Reading Series is pleased to present poets and fiction writers Didi Jackson, Jodi Paloni, Ben Pease, and Layla Santos, in the Marquis Theater Café on Wednesday, April 11. The Marquis Café/Bar, at 65 Main Street, Middlebury, VT, is open at 5 pm; the reading begins at 7 pm.

NER’s Vermont Reading Series is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. Books, beverages, burritos, and other Southwestern dishes will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Didi Jackson’s debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (2020). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Common, and the current issue of the New England Review. She teaches Creative Writing, Poetry and the Visual Arts, and Twentieth-Century Poetry of War and Witness at the University of Vermont, and serves as the associate poetry editor for Green Mountains Review.

Jodi Paloni is the author of the short story collection They Could Live with Themselves (Press 53, 2016), a 2017 IPPY Silver Medalist, finalist for the 2017 Maine Book Award, and runner-up in the 2015 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. She was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the 2017 Kenyon Review Summer Writing Workshop and an upstreet scholar at the 2016 VCFA Post-Graduate Conference. A freelance writer, teacher, and editor, she serves on the planning committee for the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Ben Pease is the author of Chateau Wichman: A Blockbuster in Verse (Big Lucks Books, 2017). He is a board member of the Ruth Stone Foundation and is leading the renovations of Ruth Stone’s property in Goshen, Vermont. He is finishing up two other projects, Fugitives of Speech, an epic poem following teenage filmmakers in Ludlow, Massachusetts, and a collection of poetry about the death of his mother. He lives in Brandon with his wife and daughter.

Layla Santos is a senior political science major at Middlebury College. She was raised in the Bronx and Port Chester, New York. As a first generation Dominican-American, she enjoys exploring aspects of dual identity through her creative work.

Join us October 16

Vermont Reading Series Moves to the Marquis

September 21, 2017

Come down for poetry and prose, tacos and tequila, at the next event in New England Review’s Vermont Reading Series. Poets Rob Hardy, April Ossmann, and Lizzie Apple, and essayist Jericho Parms will read from their new work in the Marquis Theater Café on Monday, October 16 at 7 pm. The Cafe will open at 5:45 pm, at 65 Main Street, Middlebury, VT.

NER’s Vermont Reading Series is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Books, beverages, and burritos will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Lizzie Apple is a senior at Middlebury College from Memphis, Tennessee. She is a major in English and American Literatures and a minor in French. She is so happy to represent Frame magazine, a handmade chapbook that collects work from student-run workshops.

Rob Hardy is the first Poet Laureate of Northfield, Minnesota. He has published his essays frequently in the New England Review, and his poetry and prose have appeared in Ploughshares, North Dakota Quarterly, New Letters, Rattle, West Branch, and other journals and anthologies. His poetry has been included in The Best of the Net, and his chapbook The Collecting Jar won the 2005 Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Competition (judged by Marilyn Nelson). He’s the author of Domestication: Collected Poems 1996–2016 (Up On Big Rock Poetry Series, 2017) and Aeschylus, The Oresteia: An Adaptation (Hero Now Theatre 2017).

April Ossmann is author of the poetry collections Event Boundaries, just out this summer, and Anxious Music, both published by Four Way Books. She has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review, New England Review, and Harvard Review, and in anthologies. Her poetry awards include a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. Former executive director of Alice James Books, she owns a poetry consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com), offering manuscript editing, publishing advice, tutorials, and workshops. She is a faculty editor for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College and lives in West Windsor, Vermont.

Jericho Parms is the author of the essay collection Lost Wax (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Normal School, Hotel Amerika, American Literary Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, noted in Best American Essays, and anthologized in Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction and Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women. She is the Associate Director of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches in the Professional Writing program at Champlain College.

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