Free Write with TMI Project
Join the TMI Project for a free weekly writing workshop series facilitated by trained workshop leaders. Drop in whenever you're available! Register here!
Poughkeepsie Book Festival (in person)
Poughkeepsie High School 70 Forbus St, Poughkeepsie, NYThe Poughkeepsie Public Library District hosts its annual Book Festival! Meet and greet over 40 authors and illustrators (covering reading ages from preschool to Young Adult), costumed book characters such as Elephant and Piggie, Estaban the Magnificent from The Day the Crayons Came Home, Curious George, and more! There will be fun crafts and activities …
Writer’s Lab (virtual)
Jumpstart or support your writing process at The Hudson Valley Performing Arts Lab "Writer's Lab"! Writers who workshop their work in the month of June will have the opportunity to continue development with actors in the July Actor's Labs. Register here!
Meet the Authors with Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat (in person)
Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat 7 Hummingbird Way, Staatsburgh, New YorkRhinebeck Writers Retreat serves a crucial role for writers, in the long developmental process for their musicals. We give a writing team a weeklong residency in a private home just outside of Rhinebeck, where they live together for one week and do nothing but write their new musical. We ask for no money from Rhinebeck …
Poughkeepsie Library Holiday Book Sale (in person)
Locust Grove 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NYThe Holiday Book Sale features thousands of gift-quality books and media, sorted into multiple categories and most priced at $4 or less per item. All items will be half-price on Sunday. This year’s sale again offers an additional room for specially priced vintage items, coffee-table books, items, and books of local interest, collectible books and …
Poughkeepsie Library Holiday Book Sale (in person)
Locust Grove 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NYThe Holiday Book Sale features thousands of gift-quality books and media, sorted into multiple categories and most priced at $4 or less per item. All items will be half-price on Sunday. This year’s sale again offers an additional room for specially priced vintage items, coffee-table books, items, and books of local interest, collectible books and …
Juneteenth: A Discussion of the Ralph Ellison Novel
Adriance Memorial Library 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NYBook discussion of Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison’s second novel published posthumously in 1999, created by Ellison’s friend and biographer John Callahan from more than 2,000 pages written by him over a period of 40 years. Callahan edited the novel in the way he believed that Ellison would have wanted it to be written. RSVP HERE
Beacon Lit Fest
Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon, NYLibrary Book Sale
Locust Grove 2683 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NYBeyond the Burden of Elegy
Rockefeller Hall 200Lawrence Jackson Poster Lawrence Jackson is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He has recently published Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland Baltimore (Gray Wolf Press, 2023), a memoir about his search for housing in the city of Baltimore as a single Black male parent. He will deliver a …