Note this author reading will be held in the children’s department Story Woods Room. Elaine Robinson will read from her illustrated poetic story, Uncommon Scents, which tells the tale of Marvin, a polite but bullied and lonely little muskrat, who lives in a forest where all the other animals are … Read More
The link to this Zoom program is shown at the end of the article. Author Marie Q. Rogers asks you to imagine yourself taken without warning from all you know—family, home, friends—to a distant world where people possess abilities you didn’t know existed. Such is Fern’s experience in Trials by … Read More
Come hear readings from Bacopa Literary Review 2020, the print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Local authors who contributed to Bacopa Literary Review are invited to read from and talk about their 2020 contributions, including Renee Agatep, Justin Blair, J. Brent Crosson, Jennifer Grant, David Maas, Jenna … Read More
How has the pandemic affected your life and that of your family and friends? That was the question asked by the Matheson History Museum staff and Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) members. They sought stories, essays, poems, etc. about personal experiences during the pandemic. Writers were asked to tell the … Read More
On Saturday, November 4th, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park will host a Writer’s Talk with Ernest Hemingway's grandson, John Hemingway, author of A Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir. The book is an intimate chronicle of the tumultuous relationship between John's father Gregory Hemingway and grandfather Ernest. The book tells … Read More