Freedom-to-Write Workshop, November 5
PEN New England's Freedom-to-Write Committee is Seeking Teachers for its Prison Writing Program
PEN has long been involved in the teaching of writing workshops in prisons, both as a way of helping rehabilitate prisoners by giving them the means to express themselves, and as a way of giving a voice to the otherwise voiceless.
PEN New England is no exception: for a number of years we on PEN NE's Freedom-to-Write Committee have taught workshops at Northampton County Prison. We are now beginning a program closer to home at Bay State Correctional Center near Foxborough, and are looking to expand our cadre of teachers.
Other programs—Framingham's Women's Prison, for example—will hopefully soon follow, depending on the number of teachers we have available.
NO TEACHING EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY, NO OBLIGATION. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
If you are interested, please come to the following information and training session:
Sunday, November 5th at 2:00 PM
MIT Room 2-105
182 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
(The #1 bus is easy also for getting to Bldg. #2)
Even if you're just curious, PLEASE COME! Poets, fiction writers, and non-fiction writers are welcome.
We look forward to seeing you there! For more information, feel free to e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.
Jessica Treadway Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
Jessica Treadway grew up in upstate New York, where after college she served as a bureau manager and reporter for United Press International. She moved to Boston in 1984 and since then has written two books--a collection of short stories called Absent Without Leave, and a novel, And Give You Peace. She teaches creative writing at Emerson College.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu