"Please join The Opinionated Ladies Book Club and The Friends of the Library," says Cynthia Chestnut, "as we present Gainesville author K.E. Mullins, on January 26, 2:30 p.m. at the downtown library. Mullins, immediate past president of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, will discuss her books, Thinking Aloud: Dimensions of … Read More
Author Kassandra Lamb, who served as a psychology professor for sixteen years and practiced psychotherapy for two decades, spoke about the therapeutic aspects of writing. In her practice, she specialized in trauma recovery. When a person has been through trauma, she said, almost any form of writing can help with … Read More
Author Kassandra Lamb will discuss To Kill A Labrador (no, the dog does NOT die) at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 23, at the Alachua County Library Headquarters. The book is the first of her cozy mystery series about Marcia Banks, who has both an unusual name (Marcia is pronounced … Read More
WAG will provide refreshments for this event.
Sandra Gail Lambert, a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellow, explained the nuts and bolts of qualifying and applying for an NEA grant and shared how the Fellowship benefited her writing career. Establishment of the NEA Fellowship Federal programs supporting arts began in the 1960s with … Read More
Dwight Bennett, who writes under the pen name Sam Berretti, will present the second in his Seekers Mystery Series, Good Girl Gone at the Alachua County Headquarters on Saturday, March 23, at 2:30 p.m. Doris Watson works as engineer, designing kitchen appliances such as microwave ovens. Ex-military, she appears to … Read More
Jeremy Merritt, Literacy Program Specialist for the Alachua County Library District (ACLD), discussed on April 14th, 2019, the types of literacy services available to patrons at library branches throughout the county. He described the ACLD program that helps adults learn to read for enjoyment and learning through one-on-one and small-group … Read More
