Women Authors Event

100 Institute Road,Worcester MA 01609

18 April, 2023

Description

Join readers, writers, and friends for a gathering of noted women authors as they discuss their writing process and take questions from the audience. Moderated by Stephanie Pasha, Board President of the Worcester Public Library. This event honors the life and legacy of Ginger Navickas, long-time Director of Domestic Violence Services at YWCA Central Massachusetts and a lifetime advocate for women. There will be a reception with light refreshments, an art sale and silent auction, followed by our "Meet the Authors" panel. The evening closes with a book signing and book sale. Proceeds from this event will benefit YWCA’s Domestic Violence Services Program, serving survivors in Central Massachusetts. Meet the Authors: Jenna Blum: JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; the novella “The Lucky One” in the collection Grand Central; and memoir Woodrow on the Bench, about her senior black Lab and what his last seven months taught her, now in paperback from Harper Collins. Jenna is one of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women Writers, with her work published in over 20 countries, and cofounder/CEO of literary social media marketing company A Mighty Blaze. Jenna’s New York Times and internationally bestselling first novel, Those Who Save Us, won the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel; Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation for five years. Jenna is a public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally; for her 1st novel, she visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone. Andrea Hairston: Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, and scholar. Aqueduct Press published: "Will Do Magic For Small Change", a New York Times Editor’s pick and finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Otherwise Awards; Mindscape, winner of the Carl Brandon Award; and Lonely Stardust, a collection of essays and plays. Her play, Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre, appears in Geek Theater. A novelette, “Saltwater Railroad,” was published by Lightspeed Magazine. “Dumb House,” a short story appears in New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl. Andrea received the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2011 and has gotten grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her latest novel, Master of Poisons, came out from Tordotcom Publishing and is on the Kirkus Review’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2020. “Seven Generations Algorithm,” a short story is in Trouble the Waters edited by Sheree Renee Thomas, and Pan Morigan. Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the Otherwise and Carl Brandon Awards, will be out February 1, 2022 from Tordotcom. In her spare time, Andrea is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. Randy Susan Meyers: The drama of Randy Susan Meyers' internationally bestselling novels is informed by over twenty years of working with families impacted by emotional and physical violence. The Massachusetts Council of the Book—a division of the Library of Congress—chose Meyers novels as "Must Read Books" and finalists for the Massachusetts Book Award, writing, "The clear and distinctive voice of Randy Susan Meyers will have you enraptured and wanting more." When choosing Accidents of Marriage as a People "Pick of The Week," the magazine wrote, "This novel's unsparing look at emotional abuse and its devastating consequences gives it gravity and bite, while a glimpse into a physically damaged mind both surprises and fascinates." The Murderer's Daughters, Meyers' debut novel, was chosen as a One Book, One Community Read by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. She believes that many things can save your life—children who warm your heart, the love of a good man, a circle of close friends, a great sister, and an occasional New York bagel. After a tumultuous start in life, she now has all those things. SponsorsPresenting Sponsors District Attorneys Office WPI Chapter Clark University Carolyn Erskine Consigli Construction Company, Inc. Nancy Sawyer Women’s Initiative, United Way of Central Massachusetts Prologue Anonymous ArtsWorcester Seder & Chandler Shelley & Todd Rodman The Willows at Worcester