Tag: Bertha Rogers

Registration for Festival 2025 is open!

Join our stunning lineup of Participating Writers for a weekend to reinvigorate your writing or jumpstart a project. Join the magic on June 6, 7 & 8th. Harness the beautiful inspiration of The Catskill Mountains.

Spotlight: Bertha Rogers

A new collection by one of our founding Participating Writers Named the first Poet Laureate of Delaware County, New York, Bertha Rogers, is a poet, translator, visual artist, and master teaching artist. More than 250 of her poems and critical reviews have appeared in journals and literary magazines. She has published more than 600 poems and…

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Renew! Renew! Renew!

Celebrate spring and consider a workshop that may change your writing. The Hobart Festival of Women Writers is once again offering writing workshops on June 6, 7 &8th. We’ve got an array of engaging two-hour workshops to inspire,

Meet the Festival 2025 Participating Writers

The Hobart Festival of Women Writers has, since 2013, celebrated and recognized women‘s literary work. We’ve brought together writers who work in all genres to read, present workshops exploring writing craft, participate in panel discussions, and sell their books. We also exhibit artwork by local women artists. Our three-day weekend dedicated to women writers is open to all readers, writers, and lovers of language. All are welcome.

Eleventh Time’s a Charm!

We had a raft of craft workshops, three public readings open to all, two panel discussions, an art exhibit entitled “Absence Is Not Empty,” and lots of books for sale.

Registration is Open!

Once again, we have launched our Indiegogo Fundraising Campaign. Each year we’ve appealed directly to The Festival’s friends, family, and colleagues to offer their support of our program. We thank you heartily for past support and ask that you once again help us to grow and thrive.

Come To The Catskills

HFWW 2024 has a writing workshop for everybody Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2024 is June 7, 8 &9 Settle in for a weekend dedicated to literature and women writers in Hobart, NY, a village set against the panorama of the Western Catskills. Explore Hobart, the Reading Capital of New York State and home to…

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Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2024

The Hobart Festival of Women Writers, now in its eleventh year, features diverse women writers leading workshops, readings, and panel discussions. Notable writers include Nancy Agabian, Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, and Mary Johnson. The festival fosters conversations, workshops, and camaraderie, creating a platform for women writers to showcase their work.

A Bumper Crop of Books

Join us in the Hobart Book Village for a glorious celebration of women writers. Our writers have published a stunning variety of books. There are story collections, poems, and novels. We are pleased to promote these new publications by our 2022 authors.

Welcome Festival Participating Writers for 2022

We’re already celebrating! Spring is here and The Hobart Festival of Women Writers is returning to an in-person gathering on the weekend of September 9, 10 & 11, 2022. We’re ecstatic to be able to return to our signature weekend of celebrating the work of women writers. We’ve invited a stellar group of Participating Writers who’ve published their work in all genres and styles. They will offer workshops, will read from their work and their books will be available for purchase. Join us in the Hobart Book Village for a glorious celebration of women writers.

Expanding Ideas: Words into Poems and Artists Books with Bertha Rogers

Before poets could read and write, they spoke their poems, and they drew and carved on available surfaces. When the monks began copying holy texts, they weren’t satisfied with words only; they began illuminating the manuscripts with both sacred and profane drawings and paintings. William Blake was famous for his poems rich with watercolors. What we call “outsider art” frequently features words and images. – B. Rogers