Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work, followed by a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.
Katelyn Ludwig is a writer from northern Berkshire County who is working in memoir, essays, and poetry. Her current project, Imperfectly Frank, is a creative nonfiction memoir exploring family secrets, silence, and what we inherit from the people who came before us. She writes as a person in the LGTBQ community and from a place of sobriety and recovery — believing that telling the truth, even the hard parts, is one of the most generous things a person can do.
Eric Wasileski (M.Div) is a Persian Gulf Veteran of Operation Desert Fox, and of Yugoslavia, Operation Joint Endeavour. He is a lifetime member of Veterans for Peace (VFP), Veterans for Foreign Wars (VFW), Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and is a facilitator for Warrior Writers. He is a Greenfield Native and resides in Pittsfield. He has authored three books, including his new release Consoling the Weeping Willow, his children’s book, How the Rainbow Became Truly Beautiful, and Live Free (or Die).
Since 2012, Carla Manene Cooke has facilitated writing groups in her home and online. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals Emulate, Meat for Tea, Naugatuck River Review, Persimmon Tree, RavensPerch, Silkworm, Wordpeace, and elsewhere. A freelance copyeditor and 2022 Pushcart nominee, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
For more information, email lindy@localaccess.org.
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