Writing a novel can be a fun, if daunting proposition.  Woburn Public Library and local authors will cheer on, encourage, and rally around aspiring writers this November for a four-part NaNoWriMo Challenge series.  Every Tuesday, from 6-7 PM, local authors will lead a writing workshop covering a range of topics to help writers sharpen their skills and find inspiration.  Following the workshops will be informal writing time with peers and authors available to offer guidance and support.

The topic of this evening's writing workshop is: Poetry.

Presented by Ann Taylor.

 

Registration is requested, but not required.  Snacks will be provided.

 

About NaNoWriMo:

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous, hosting authors drafting novels like Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, and more. 

 

About Ann:

A long-time Professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, Ann Taylor has written two books on college composition, academic and free-lance essays, and a collection of personal essays, Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing. Her first poetry book, The River Within, won first prize in the 2011 Cathlamet Poetry competition at Ravenna Press. A chapbook, Bound Each to Each, was published in 2013. Her collection, Héloïse and Abélard: the Exquisite Truth, published in 2018, is based on the twelfth-century story of their lives, and her most recent collection, Sortings, was published by Dos Madres Press, in June of 2020. Her recent manuscript, Taking Care, is under consideration with a publisher. She is currently at work on a collection of poems focusing on Horn Pond in Woburn, Massachusetts (Horn Pond: As I See It), near which she grew up and where she now lives again.