Writers in the Mountains (WIM) presents The Amherst Method, a generative writing workshop with poet Sharon Israel, the last Friday of the month from 3 to 5 pm at the Roxbury Library, 53742 State Hwy 30, Roxbury, NY. The first session will be held on March 29. Advance registration is recommended. Never written before? Know you have a writer’s soul but haven’t yet been able … Continue reading The Amherst Method Creative Writing Workshop
Rebecca Rego Barry reads from and signs copies of her latest book The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells (2024) at the Emerson Resort in Mt. Tremper, NY. You can read about Rebecca’s book in the Saturday Evening Post at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/considering-history-americas-forgotten-women-writers-carolyn-wells/ and Publishers Weekly at https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/editorials/article/94384-rebecca-rego-barry-on-mystery-author-carolyn-wells-and-the-erasure-of-women-in-literary-history.html Barry’s articles and essays about books, history, and collectibles have appeared in Financial Times, Literary Hub, CrimeReads, Atlas Obscura, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, … Continue reading Rebecca Rego Barry Book Reading and Signing Event
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Upcoming Events from Writers in the Mountains (WIM) Literary Community: Weekly figure drawing at Andes Academy of Art, 506 Main Street in Andes, every Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm. State of the Art publication closes the 15th of the month prior to its printing and two months prior to its cover date. Poetry and micro-fiction can be submitted to Andesacademyofart@gmail.com. The Power of Words to Heal: Post Traumatic Press @ … Continue reading April is National Poetry Month: News from WIM’s Literary Community
Journey to the Catskills: I’ve actually been here for generations! My grandparents owned Boris Bungalow Colony in Glen Wild in the 1940s -1960s. My parents met while they were both working for a hotel in Loch Sheldrake over their summer break in 1950. After a few years in the City, they settled in the Hudson Valley, and even though I was away for a while, … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Laurie Boris
24-year-old Mae McCain flees from New York City at the beginning of the COVID lockdown to her great-grandparents’ abandoned farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York. In the attic of the old house, Mae finds a family secret and gradually discovers why it was hidden for so long. Ruth is an aviator of another time, blazing new history as she breaks through old boundaries. Silver Dollar Girls, … Continue reading Book Release: Silver Dollar Girls by Margaret DiBenedetto
FULL COURT PRESS announces the release of EBONY BEAR, A NURTURING URSINE LEARNS A LESSON by Margaret DiDenedetto with illustrations by Fabia Wargin. Meet Ebony, a black bear and new mother of three cubs, and take a peek at their adventures as they learn to share the world with humans. Ebony Bear is the first in a series of wildlife books that are based on research … Continue reading Book Release: Ebony Bear, A Nurturing Ursine Learns a Lesson by Margaret DiBenedetto
From Artists and Writers Affiliated with Writers In The Mountains PAINTINGS: HOUSHMAND AND DUKE MURAL on Main Art Gallery, Hobart, NY Saturday and Sunday, 12 noon – 4 pm (until July 2) PLEIN AIR PAINTING SHOW 1084 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY Saturday and Sunday, 11 am – 4 pm (until July 3) Participating artists include: Ros Welchman, Sharon Suess, Michelle Sidrane, Patrice Lorenz, Gail Freund, Helene Manzo, Lesley Powell, Oneida … Continue reading News and Events
Journey to the Catskills: On a summer day in 1973, on the Columbia University campus, I was chatting with another mother while our preschoolers splashed hands in the fountains. She told me of a place that sounded magical. Her family had recently pooled resources with four other families to buy part of a mountainside up near the Rondout Reservoir in Sullivan County – and they … Continue reading Humans of the Catskills: Shaune Bornholdt
WEEKEND INTENSIVE Writers in the Mountains (WIM) presents Fiction Writing with Thaddeus Rutkowski, a weekend intensive held online Saturday and Sunday, July 9 – 10, 2022, from to 1 to 4 pm. Once you register and pay, you will be given instructions on how to join the class. Everyone has a story to tell. Your story may be true or it may be fictional, but … Continue reading FICTION WRITING WITH THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI
Art in the Catskills 