BRATTLEBORO — Write Action celebrates its 10th anniversary with a reading in the Main Room of the Brooks Memorial Library on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.
Several authors featured in Write Action's 10th Anniversary commemorative anthology will give readings during the event including:
• AA Burrows, along with his wife Elise and friend Ray Clark, have run their own publishing venture, Pro Lingua Associates, since 1980, publishing English-as-a-second-language training materials. He is a long-time member of Write Action.
• Gena Corea is co-director of Geryunant retreat center (www.geryunant.com) in southern Vermont, where she guides clients in focusing and teaches a beginners' African Chi dance class.
• Bill Devlin, poet of half-century duration, considers himself a poetic historian and commentator.
• Kathleen Fagley is a 2005 MFA graduate of the New England College; she lives in Keene, N.H., and teaches at Keene State College. Currently she is a poetry editor for Amoskeag: The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University.
• Lynn Martin is about to turn 75. She has been a serious writer more than 20 years, collaborating with a dancer, an artist, a photographer, and a song writer. She has just self-published a book of poetry, Talking to the Day, where she envisions her life as one day.
• Tim Mayo's poems have received numerous awards and accolades, and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award.
• Greg McAllister entered a Catholic seminary at age 16 in the San Francisco Archdiocese, left as a deacon in 1966. Following a long and diversified ministry, holding many diverse jobs, he retired to Putney with his wife Linda. His first book, Confessions of a Serial Celibate, was published by Authorhouse in 2003.
• John Nirenberg is a professor of leadership at Walden University, College of Management and Technology. A Beautiful Thing is his first published non-academic article. He lives in Brattleboro.
• Jennie Reichman has written poetry since childhood and feels that it is the touchstone for all of her other creative endeavors. Growing up in the lush, wooded hills of Oregon she was inspired to a lifelong love of the outdoors and often draws on those images in her poetry and songwriting.
• Lani Wright's writing appears frequently in the Readers Write section of The Sun magazine, Chrysalis Reader and in the Southern Vermont Audubon Newsletter, including the 2009 anthology Tale Feathers: a Celebration of Birds, Birders and Bird Watching.
Write Action is a community-based, grass-roots writer's organization formed in 1999 to strengthen a community of writers in Brattleboro and the surrounding area; and to nurture, encourage, and promote the literary arts in the at-large community. For more information, visit www.writeaction.net.