Our Events Fall 2019
Click on any event title for more details and to register. Registration is required for all events unless listings state otherwise.
For a calendar of events in date order, click here.
Exhibition | Special Events | Performances | Poetry | Lectures | Seminars & Reading Groups | The Writing Life | Children's & Young Adult Events | Informal and Informational Gatherings
Exhibition
- Wanderlust: Your Favorite Travel Books (September 19-December 31)
Special Events
- Workshop: Women's Leadership in the Creation of Off-Broadway (December 4)
- NEW! Workshop: Illuminated Manuscripts with Christina Amato (December 13)
Performances
- Special Presentation: Manydown, a New Jane Austen Play by Sarah Rose Kearns (December 3) - SOLD OUT!
Poetry
- Seminar: Jane Mallison, Walt Whitman at 200 (October 2, October 30, November 20, December 18)
Lectures
- Special Event: Robert A. Caro with Brenda Wineapple, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing (December 11) - SOLD OUT!
Seminars and Reading Groups
- Nicholas Birns, The Marginal and the Universal: Ellison’s Invisible Man and Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (September 18, October 16, November 13, December 11)
- Donald McDonough, Euripides’ Trojan War (September 26, October 24, November 21, December 12)
- Jane Mallison, Walt Whitman at 200 (October 2, October 30, November 20, December 18)
- Blanche Siegal, Tea & Trollope, Fall 2019-Spring 2020 (October 20, November 10, December 15, February 9, March 15, April 19)
The Writing Life
- Prompt! with Carol Weston (separate sessions Fridays September 13, October 11, November 8, December 13)
- The Editor Is In: An Interactive Seminar with Walter Bode (separate sessions October 24 and December 12)
- Workshop: Miral Sattar, Why Writers Need to Learn About SEO, Voice Search, and Getting Found on Google (October 29, December 10)
Children's and Young Adult Events
Informal and Informational Gatherings
- Member Orientations (separate sessions November 18, December 16)
- Happy Hour (separate sessions November 20, December 18)
- Teatime (most weekday afternoons)
The Writing Life events in 2019 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.
Children's events are generously supported by Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner & the Richard Peck Fund.
Registration is required for all events unless individual listings state otherwise, and space is limited. Please see individual listings for details on time, format, and location. Many events are open to the public, with some for members only; check individual listings for details.
The house opens for each event thirty minutes prior to the stated start time. Registrants are asked not to arrive for check-in prior to that time. A seat cannot be guaranteed after an event has begun.
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