The Garret: Fall Reading in Easthampton MA

About this event

It's getting dark earlier, bonfire smoke is in the air, all the tell-tale signs of fall are here. Come join us around the candlelight in our cozy studio for a reading celebrating a group of local authors (who happen to all work together in an Easthampton studio we've decided to call The Garret).

Directions : We will send detailed directions out to all who RSVP! Our studio is in the Keystone Building in Easthampton MA, on the second floor. The most direct access is via stairs (this is an old, converted mill building). We will update this asap with elevator status.

RSVP :

Please RSVP if you plan to join us, as there is limited space! (About 35 seats.)

FEATURED AUTHORS

Jedediah Berry 's latest novel, The Naming Song , won the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction and was an LA Times Book Prize finalist. His first novel, The Manual of Detection , won the Crawford Award and the Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio 4.He is the author of numerous stories and interactive works, including The Family Arcana , which was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award. He is the co-creator, with Andrew McAlpine, of the Wildendrem adventure game setting, which began with the Ennie Award-winning The Valley of Flowers .Together with his partner, writer Emily Houk, he runs Ninepin Press , an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and games in unusual shapes. He lives in Western Massachusetts.

Melenie Freedom Flynn is an author, actor, and teacher. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Edith Wharton House, Straw Dog Writers’ Guild, Djerassi Residents Artists Program, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Melenie’s essay “Message from Your Inmate” won the annual nonfiction contest at Vela Magazine and her recent work can be seen in In a Flash and Provincetown Arts Magazine. A graduate of the MFA Acting Program at California Institute of the Arts, Melenie has performed in theatres across the country. She leads writing workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and provides coaching and editorial services for writers.

Megan Tady is the author of Bluebird Day , a Washington Post Noteworthy Book, and Super Bloom , both via Zibby Books. Super Bloom was awarded an IPPY Gold medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Northeast. She runs the freelance writing and editing company Word-Lift and offers book coaching and ghostwriting. Her writing has appeared in Oprah Daily , People , L.A. Parent , Woman's Day , Writer's Digest , The Huffington Post, and Ms. Magazine , among others. Megan lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.

Emily Houk ’s short fiction has appeared previously in Conjunctions , and she has just finished her first novel. She is coeditor of Ninepin Press , and she thrives in the shade of the library stacks of Western Massachusetts.

Christopher Boucher was born and raised in western Massachusetts, and he received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2002. He currently teaches writing and literature at Boston College, where he also serves as Managing Editor for Post Road Magazine . Chris is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive (Melville House, 2011), Golden Delicious (Melville House, 2016), and Big Giant Floating Head (a 2019 Massachusetts Book Award Fiction Honors Selection). He’s also the editor of Jonathan Lethem’s More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House, 2017). Chris lives in Northampton, Mass.

Joy Deva Baglio is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop and a speculative-literary fiction writer whose short fiction has appeared widely in such journals as One Story , Ploughshares , The Missouri Review , Tin House , American Short Fiction, Conjunctions , The Iowa Review , SmokeLong Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review , and Apex , among others. Two stories have been optioned for film/TV. A Bread Loaf and Sewanee Scholar, other honors include residencies and fellowships from Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, and The Kerouac Project, where she was the spring 2023 writer-in-residence living and writing in Jack Kerouac's Orlando bungalow. She is at work on a collection of short stories and three speculative-literary novels. Follow her on Blue Sky , Substack , Instagram , & Facebook , or find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com

Gretchen Schmelzer, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and trauma survivor who has worked for three decades with the complex issues of trauma, integration and behavior change across every level of system from individuals, to groups, to large systems and countries. She is the author of Journey Through Trauma published in 2018 by Penguin Random House. Gretchen is the co-founder of the Center for Trauma and Leadership which focuses on supporting leaders at the intersection of leadership and trauma, working with hospitals teams, first responders, city governments, journalists, and government agencies. She was faculty and adjunct faculty in the department of Counseling Psychology at Northeastern University from 2002 to 2007, and is currently a lecturer in the Medical Education Masters Program in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. She was recently featured on CNN with Anderson Cooper and Working from Home with Richard Quest. She is the founder and editor of The Trail Guide, a web-mag featured on www.gretchenschmelzer.com dedicated to healing repeated trauma. She lives in Western Massachusetts surrounded by mountains, friends and books. Find her online at https://gretchenschmelzer.com/