Join Ginny Sassaman for an online reading and talk to celebrate the release of her book, Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World.
Registration: To receive the Zoom link, please RSVP.
Contact: Bear Pond Books
Alice Miller: More Miracle Than Bird
Alice will be in conversation with writer, Christopher Castellani.
Cost: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite via Northshire’s website.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Lisa Alther: Swan Song
Lisa will be in conversation with former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin.
Cost: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite via the Northshire’s website.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
This workshop offers suggestions and techniques for writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that derives from travel and journeys, real and imagined. Prompts will bring out the writer in you and will be shared voluntarily. We will also read and discuss selected readings that combine travel with memoir.
This workshop will meet for five sessions, July 23 and 30, and August 6, 13, and 20.
Cost: $90
Contact: Green Mountain Academy for Livelong Learning
Paul Doiron: One Last Lie
Sarah Stewart Taylor: The Mountains Wild
Cost: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite via Northshire’s website.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Lucy Terry Prince was born in Africa, where she was kidnapped by slave traders and transported to Rhode Island. While still enslaved in 1746, she wrote “Bars Fight,” the oldest known poem in the United States written by an African American. Prince later regained her freedom and moved to Vermont with her husband, Abijah Prince, and fought for her family’s land rights all the way to the highest court in Vermont.
In this presentation, Shanta Lee Gander illustrates Prince’s importance as a poet and orator, and as one unafraid to fight for her rights within the landscape of early Vermont, New England, and America. Gander will also perform Lucy’s only surviving poem, “Bars Fight.”
Registration: This event will offered online. For registration information, contact Tracy Craft at .
Contact: Vermont Humanities Council
David Sedaris: Calypso
Cost: $45 to 55
Contact: Catamount Arts
Mamta Chaudhry: Haunting Paris
Mamta will be in conversation with writer, Jim Shepard.
Cost: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite via Northshire’s website.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Norwich Public Library is sponsoring an online community reading of “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” In 1852, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass asked this question in a speech condemning a nation that would celebrate freedom and democracy while so many of its inhabitants lived their lives in state-sanctioned bondage.
We will read an abridged version of the speech out loud together with an opportunity for facilitated breakout discussion following the reading. Facilitators will ask questions that make contemporary connections between Douglass’s speech and current affairs in the United States.
Registration: If you are interested in reading a passage, please consider “claiming” your selections in advance. To attend the event, use this Zoom link.
Contact: Norwich Public Library
You are invited to a poetry pick-me-up performance with pop! People want poems more than ever during this uncertain time, so we welcome you to RSVP for another virtual pandemic poetry party. We will find comfort in each other's words, release our stress and emotional weight, and celebrate connection and gratitude. Bring your best metaphoric firework of a verse to share, or just come to listen to the show. We'll see you on Zoom!
Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature.
About The Event Host: Bianca Amira Zanella is a Vermont-based performance poet, paper artist, and events coordinator, as well as the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland. Zanella’s poems have most recently appeared in The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded “Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry,” co-producing this series alongside Michael Kingsbury around Rutland County. In 2020, Bianca founded and is the owner of The Paper Poet, offering healing poetic experiences.
This event is free and open to all!
Please register with Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive a Zoom invite.
Contact: Phoenix Books
We are living in a time of tumult but of promise. Inspired by this moment of self-reflection. Northern Stages invites you to join its staff and board in a deep dive into the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
In the model of it’s Play Date program, Northern Stage invites all to read the book and join in a thoughtfully curated conversation, moderated by Brittany Bellizeare, who appeared in Northern Stage’s production of The Mountaintop and is an experienced facilitator of discussions on diversity.
Registration: This event is free and open to the public. To register, email or call (802) 296-7000. They will send registrants an email with the Zoom link in the days leading up to the conversation.
Contact: Northern Stage
Barbara Morrow, co-founder of the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont will sit down with author Julia Alvarez to discuss her new book, Afterlife, how women can triumph through the struggles of life in transition. This novel is also relevant to these times when immigration is an important issue and human empathy is more crucial than ever.
Cost: $10. Afterlife is available for purchase at the Northshire Bookstore.
Registration: Register online to receive the Zoom link.
Contact: Green Mountain Academy
Stephanie Storey: Raphael
Please Note: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase event books from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Sarah Stewart Taylor: The Mountains Wild
Sarah will be interviewed by Maine writer, Julia Spencer Fleming, and will read a passage from the book. We plan to have time for Q&A at the end.
To join the event, please email and you will be sent a link when it is available.
Contact: The Norwich Bookstore
Kristin Kimball: Good Husbandry
Please Note: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Rosalie Knecht: Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
Tracy O’Neill: Quotients
Cost: $0-20
Please Note: To support Northshire's event program, Northshire Live events are now ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets are free for those who purchase either event book from Northshire Bookstore, and for those who cannot pay at this time. Both free and paid tickets must be purchased via Eventbrite.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Emily Raboteau: Searching for Zion
Megan Mayhew Bergman: Almost Famous Women
“Placing the Environmental Perspective in the Current Moment”
Registration is not required. Simply click on the program title on the website on the day of the event.
Contact: Bread Loaf at Middlebury
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight: Hex
Marie-Helene Bertino: Parakeet
Cost: $0-20
In order to support Northshire Bookstore's event program, this event is ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Ticket purchases are non-refundable.
Ticket purchase is free if you buy the event book from Northshire Bookstore.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Wendy Williams: The Language of Butterflies
Wendy will be in conversation with Ted Williams.
Cost-$0-20
In order to support Northshire Bookstore's event program, this event is ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Ticket purchases are non-refundable.
Ticket purchase is free if you buy the event book from Northshire Bookstore.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Chris Bohjalian: The Red Lotus
Chris will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai.
Cost: $32-50
Your event ticket includes a new hardcover copy of The Red Lotus and a bookplate signed by the author, as well as online access to the event for your household. Northshire Bookstore will mail your book and bookplate to you after the event. Upon ticket purchase you will receive a link and password to attend the zoom event. Please note that your ticket purchase is not refundable.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Susan Choi: Trust Exercise
Sign up to participate in an exclusive event with author Susan Choi and her book TRUST EXERCISE, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and now in paperback!
Bear Pond has partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with author Hamilton Cain and participate in the live Q&A.
Registration is required to receive a link for the live event. Register through the link below:
https://forms.gle/eJjtwk5LCBoH1zDS8
Contact: Bear Pond Books
Michele Campbell: The Wife Who Knew Too Much
KJ Dell’Antonia: The Chicken Sisters
Stephen Kiernan: Universe of Two
Sarah Stewart Taylor: The Mountains Wild
Local authors (Michele Campbell, KJ Dell'Antonia, Stephen Kiernan, and Sarah Stewart Taylor) will join Lisa Christie for an evening of book talks. In addition to great reading recommendations, the first Virtual Pages in the Pub will be raising funds for a local charity.
All four authors have new books releasing this spring and summer. Links to order signed copies as well as featured books will be available.
Contact: Norwich Bookstore
Frances Mayes: Always Italy
Frances Mayes, the author of the runaway bestseller "Under the Tuscan Sun" will join Northshire Live to celebrate her new book, "Always Italy" with her co-author Ondine Cohane. This evening of armchair travel is sure to delight!
This event is ticketed at three levels. Your event ticket includes online event access for your household, plus one of the following items:
$40: A hardcover copy of "Frances Mayes' Always Italy"
$22: A paperback copy of Mayes' "See You in the Piazza"
$56: For superfans, both books - a hardcover copy of "Frances Mayes' Always Italy" and a paperback copy of "See You in the Piazza"
Northshire Bookstore will mail your book or books to you after the event. Upon ticket purchase you will receive a link and password to attend the zoom event. Please note that your ticket purchase is not refundable.
Contact: Northshire Bookstore
Just-for-fun short story readings from a variety of authors and readers. Two or three selections per session. Participants will be muted throughout the session. Make yourself a snack, pour yourself a drink, sit back, and be entertained by our amazing readers. It's an excellent excuse for you to make time for you, take a break from your day-to-day, and to feel a little less lonely while inside the comfort of your own home.
Cost: This event is by donation. Proceeds will be split between The Space On Main and our guest musicians. Tips to the musicians are encouraged.
Registration: Register online. Connection information and tip/donation links will be available upon registration.
Contact: The Space on Main
Join Liz Horan of Feral Journal of Poetry and Art and the Thetford Libraries for a Poetry Open Mic. Read a poem or two…your own or a favorite by another poet…in a supportive atmosphere! Open to teens and adults but no children, please, because poems may have mature language.
Registration: To get more information and sign up, please email .
Contact: Thetford Libraries
Bill Mares: The Land of Milk and Honey
Kim Greenwood: The Land of Milk and Honey
Online programming is made possible thanks to the generosity of our community. Please consider contributing to our NBNC Resiliency Fund today
Contact: North Branch Nature Center
The Space On Main is hosting its first Silent Reading Party. Make yourself a snack, pour yourself a drink, and read whatever you feel like reading silently to yourself. Relax as musicians Don Sinclair and Jenn Grossi (D&J Music, Summer Street Music) delight our ears with acoustic music. It's an excellent excuse for you to make time for you, take a break from your day-to-day, and to feel a little less lonely while inside the comfort of your own home.
Cost: This event is by donation. Proceeds will be split between The Space On Main and our guest musicians. Tips to the musicians are encouraged.
Registration: Register online. Connection information and tip/donation links will be available upon registration.
Contact: The Space on Main
Join the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing & Publishing Students for an online reading.
To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 (646) 876-9923. Meeting ID# 221 570 285
Contact: VCFA
Trinie Dalton: Destroy Bad Thoughts Not Your Own
Yi Shun Lai: Not a Self-Help Book
Carvell Wallace: The Sixth Man
The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 (646) 876-9923. The meeting ID is 687-912-190.
Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Debotri Dhar: A Flute Called Radha
Ann Cardinal: Five Midnights
Sean Prentiss: Crosscut
The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 646 876 9923
Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Through conversation and exercises, Richard Blanco will lead participants in a deep dive into the golden rule of writing poetry, “show don’t tell.” Though it’s a familiar rule often applied instinctually, Blanco will examine how it truly works, and why, in order to gain a stronger, more purposeful command of it. Limited to 20 participants.
Please note: This workshop will be available through Zoom.
Registration: Register online.
Contact: Kellogg-Hubbard Library
Richard Blanco: How To Love A Country
Richard Blanco reads from his recent poetry collection How to Love a Country, exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues and more, unraveling the fabric of the American narrative in accessible and emotive verses.
Please note: This event is digital only and will be held on the Vermont Humanities Facebook page.
Contact: Vermont Humanities Council
Kenzie Allen
Erika T. Wurth: Buckskin Cocaine
David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts
The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. All events can be accessed by the public on Google Hangouts.
Note: To view the event, you just signed into a Google account. Please put your computer microphone on mute when you enter. If you do not have a Google account, you can call in from your phone by using calling conference line: 1 (502) 208-5166 and then entering this PIN: 754 370 900#
Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts
Nicolette Polek: Imaginary Museums
Contact: Bennington College
This reading will take place in Franklin.
Teresa Lust: A Blissful Feast
Free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended as space is limited. Please call (802) 649-1114 or email to save a seat.
Contact: The Norwich Bookstore
Sean Prentiss: Crosscut
Contact: The Galaxy Bookshop
Join writer Katherine Gibbel in this workshop series for poets of all experiences. In this class you will experiment with new poetic forms and techniques. Over the course of five weeks we will strengthen our work and take risks in our writing. Through a combination of in-class writing exercises, workshops, and discussion of outside poems, we will develop reading and writing practices that will make us more attentive, generative, and generous poets. Participants will be expected to read three short poems and hand in one new poem each week. This poetry workshop welcomes poets of all experiences. Please bring something to write with and paper.
Note: This workshop meets weekly through April 7.
Cost: $100
Registration: Register online
Contact: Artistree