26 May

Come Meet The Hubbard Hall Writer’s: Friday, May 31. Win A Trip To Florence

by Jon Katz
Hubbard Hall Writers Reading
Hubbard Hall Writers Reading

Okay, I’m just kidding about Florence. Just getting your attention.  But if you come to the Hubbard Hall Writer’s Workshop Readings this coming Friday at Hubbard Hall, you will encounter something precious and worthwhile: six writers (and me, too) who are enthusiastically and creatively exploring the new life of the writer as the very foundations of publishing, writing, reading and books explodes and evolves all around us.

This workshop began in 2011 and was supposed to last six weeks. We are heading for our second year, and I don’t think we will ever disband. I asked each of the writers to create their own blog, and they have, and this has unleashed a wonderful river of the imagination – writing, animation, stories, poetry, essays, a flowering of imagination. Friday the Hubbard Hall Writer’s are coming out, sharing their work, meeting with you, talking to you, answering questions about this wonderful experiment, one of the most meaningful of my writing life.

At 6 p.m., there will be a reception where you can meet Diane Fiore, John Greenwood, Kim Gifford, Dr. Jen Baker-Porazinksi, Rebecca Fedler, Rachel Barlow. And me and Red, the workshop dog. This is an amazing group of creative and mutually supportive people, fusing technology and ideas to build new kinds of writing opportunities and careers. You can learn a lot from them, I have.  You can learn about pugs, the agony of caring physicians in the health care morass, family farms, family care and Alzheimer’s, bugs and spiders,  poetry, drawings and technology. A feast. I will be reading from my new book “Second Chance Dogs,” out in the Fall, and each of the Hubbard Hall writers will share something from their work. We will all be available to answer questions and have a discussion after the readings, which begin at 7 p.m. Contributions to the Hubbard Hall Summer Scholarship Fund are welcome, admission is free. Advance tickets can be purchased at the Hubbard Hall website for $10.

As I teach it, writing is a process of coming out, being authentic, finding your voice and your zeal, following it. These very wonderful people have all done that, and it is really working for them. I am so proud of them, I am eager for you to meet them and hear about their work.

The readings will be held in the Hubbard Hall Freight Depot and I know tickets are selling quickly. Hope to see you on Friday. If you care about the future of writings, stories, publishing on the Internet and blogs, you will find it worthwhile. In the fall, I will be teaching a course on “The Art Of The Blog” on four Saturday mornings at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y. Details to be announced on Friday.

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