Local writers get a reading
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- June
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This Wednesday, the White Plains Public Library is bringing together Westchester readers and writers in a celebration of The Westchester Review, the county’s annual literary journal.
Writers from the newly-published 2009 edition are slated to read from their work, representing varied voices and visions from Hudson Valley communities. The publication describes itself as “A Literary Journal of Writers from the Hudson to the Sound.” (I’ve included a list of of some of the writers below.)
Editors of The Westchester Review will be present to answer questions about the publication process, with an eye towards submissions for the 2010 issue. The journal accepts unpublished poems, stories and essays by established and emerging writers living or working in New York’s Westchester County.
Here’s a list of some of the writers and their bios:
•Rosetta Benson has two loves: poetry and art. In May 2008 she received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Queens University, Charlotte, N.C. When she is not writing, she volunteers as a docent at the Katonah Museum of Art.
•Eleanor Gaffney has been teaching English to new immigrants for over 20 years and currently teaches at a Westchester high school. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Writing Program at Manhattanville College.
•Lu Hauser started as a classical actress before turning to playwriting. Her plays have won national prizes and been performed in major cities in the United States and in Toronto, Canada. This spring, Lincoln on Hester Street was produced at the Theater for the New City in New York.
•Meg Lindsay, with an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence, is also a painter with works juried into museum exhibitions. A semifinalist in two “Discovery”/The Nation contests and a finalist in the 1998 Inkwell competition, she has published poetry in Pivot, Salamander, Alimentum and the Connecticut Review.
•Sharon Medoff Picard lives and works in Westchester, where she is a psychoanalyst in private practice. The Westchester Review is her first effort at publication.
•Boria Sax has published many books, including “Animals in the Third Reich” (2000), “The Mythical Zoo” (2001), and “Crow” (2003). His memoir, “Stealing Fire,” is due to appear in the spring of 2009, and he is completing a history of the ravens in the Tower of London.
•Ruth Seldin, a resident of White Plains and a longtime book editor, has published articles in The New York Times, The American Jewish Year Book, The Jerusalem Report, and other publications.
•Ilene Semiatin was born in White Plains and wrote her first story at age seven. In the 1990s she returned to Westchester, where she lives and writes today. Her story, “Voices,” is very loosely based on an event in the life of her beloved grandfather, Cantor Herman Semiatin.
•Elizabeth Wood lives in Scarsdale with her husband and two children and works in New York City.
The event is at 7 p.m. at the White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave. and all are welcome.
Copies of the 2009 Review will be available for purchase and they are also available at local bookstores and from amazon.com .
Later this summer, there will be another reading at 7:30 p.m. July 23 at the Chappaqua Library, 195 S. Greeley Ave.
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