Announcing the Participating Writers for Hobart Festival of Women Writers’ eleventh year. Also, we’re announcing that JUNE 7, 8 &9 are the dates for our annual weekend to celebrate women writers in the beautiful Catskill Mountains.

Join us on June 16, 17 & 18th for a weekend of readings, workshops and panel discussions and an art installation in Hobart, New York, the Reading Capitol of New York State.

Festival 2023 Participating Writers are:

Our Participating Writers will read from their works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, as well as, offering two-hour writing craft workshops. There’s something to engage all readers, writers and lovers of language at any stage in all genres.

Venise Berry – Muddy Water:  Controlling Plot, Subplots, and Plot Points in Your Novel

Micharne Cloughley – Poetry vs Advertising: Writing scenes for television

Esther Cohen – The Stories Intensive Workshop ( a special six-hour session)

Marina Cramer – Building Character(s)

Alexis De Veaux – A Special Panel Discussion

Mary Johnson – Writing a Great Sex Scene

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa – The Nuances of Writing Dialogue

Linda Lowen – Find the BAM: the Art of Storytelling Online

Ellen Meeropol – Using multiple narrators to deepen your novel

Stephanie Nikolopoulos – Sense & Sensibility: Engaging the 5 Senses to Bring Your Story to Life

Khaliah D. Pitts – Grand Mother’s Kitchen: Memory, the Senses and the Kitchen Narrative

Bertha Rogers – Asian Poetry Forms

Jane Schulman – Writing The Six-Word Story

Lisa Wujnovich – Epistolary Poems: Revisiting the “Dear“

Kathy Kremins – Queering Space: Poetics of the In-Between

Read about the magical town of Hobart, Reading Capital of New York State, our Festival host. Hobart Book Village was recently featured in the NYTimes IT TAKES A (BOOK) VILLAGE https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/books/review/hobart-book-village.html

read Hobart, NY, The Town That Loves Books: http://bit.ly/3HzUb77

Registration for Festival 2023 will open on May 1st.

for more information, go to http://www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com

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