Featuring: T.M. Dunn, author of Her Father’s Daughter, Jimin Han, author of The Apology, Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True, and William Maz, author of The Bucharest Legacy. Hosted by Kathy Curto, Writer, Teacher, Author of Not for Nothing. More information here.

Join T.M. Dunn for a celebration of the release of her new thriller, Her Father's Daughter, at the Stamford Barnes & Noble

Featuring T. M. Dunn in conversation with Tessa Wegert, author of the acclaimed Shana Merchant series and co-president of the Connecticut chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Refreshments! Prizes! Optional scavenger hunt!

HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER, as well as books by Tessa Wegert, will be available to purchase and sign at the event.

More information and RSVP here.

Join Tessa Smith McGovern and Patricia Dunn for an in-depth conversation with New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik at StoryFest 2022! Be there as Tessa and Pat launch their brand-new podcast, Go Ahead, Write Something!

Register Here!

https://westportlibrary.org/sustaining-program/storyfest-2022/

The Italian American Studies Association is pleased to continue its Webinar Series on September 8, 2022 as we host writers Patricia Dunn and Kathy Curto.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WDaHjJi6RImwE8m_KUiC_w

A concert honoring women composers. Hear the voices of four generations featured through the genres of music theater, folk-pop, classical and jazz. Listen to the words of a modern day poetess and inspiring authors of the present day. Sopranos Lauren Mian, Jessica Zamek and Daniele Hager will be joined by violist Lucie Gelinas and pianists, Keith Burton and Tony Bellomy.

All proceeds will benefit:

Ukrainian National Women's League of America

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/she-said-tickets-339585327857

There are two things aspiring and established writers need and crave: time and space. During this one day retreat we give ourselves the gift of time. In the nurturing space of the workshop, we begin or continue to write the stories we live every day. Using our histories, our memories, and our senses as launching pads, we will begin to transform the ordinariness of our lives into extraordinary fiction and non-fiction.

 

This  day is for those who want to write but don’t yet believe they have anything to say, as well as for those who know what they want to say but need the time and space in which to do it. This one day, through tailored writing prompts, you will be given the guidance to write the stories you are destined to write.

 

You will also be given the 21-day challenge to keep you writing.


WHERE:
IN PERSON at 25 Sylvan Road North, Suite J, Westport, CT 06880
TIME:
10am to 4pm  (Please bring a bag lunch)

DATE:
Saturday, June 4th
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LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS
https://www.westportwriters.org/product-page/there-s-a-story-in-every-day-1-day-writing-retreat-patricia-dunn-in-person-Sat6-4
 

For more info, call 203.227.3250 or email info@WestportWriters.org

The Westport Writers’ Workshop will hold its first annual  Westport Writers Pitch and Publish Your Book Conference on Saturday, April 2, 2022, with a networking reception on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 7:00pm. The conference events will be held at the Westport Library  with  WestportWRITES, a program of the Westport Library.

In today’s marketplace, writers need to know more about the ever-changing publishing process and its constituents than ever. This must attend writer’s conference will be held in person and online with a full agenda of panels, talks, and networking opportunities for commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction writers.

A list of guest agents, editors, and speakers is forthcoming soon.

Westport Writers’ Workshop has planned an exciting plethora of interactive panel discussions with prominent New York City literary agents, major publishing house editors, and public relations professionals. A highlight of the day will be our guest agent and author talk with Q&A, followed by the rare opportunity to pitch your book in a one-to-one session with agents. Each event will also be recorded and attendees will have access to watch and replay these important sessions.

Writers who have registered for the conference have the option to discuss their work in person at the library or via Zoom with two agents for 10 minutes each (included in the cost of registration).

Prepare Your Pitch Workshops are expected to be announced in the near future.

AGENDA for Saturday Conference

0800 - 0900 Registration

0915 - 0930 Welcome Orientation

0930 - 1045 Agent Panel Discussion

1045 - 1100 Short Break

1100 - 1215 Editors Panel Discussion

1215 - 130 BREAK FOR LUNCH

The library sits within downtown Westport where attendees will find a variety of restaurants offering a discount for conference attendees.

130 - 230 How to build a platform to market your writing

230 - 330 Agent and Author Talk about the journey to publication

330 - Final Comments

345 - 600 One-to-One agent & attendees meetings begin

Pricing includes the Saturday conference, two pitches, and entrance to the networking reception on Friday evening.

Registration fee: $675

Early bird discount registration available until February 9th: $575

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/westport-writers-pitch-and-publish-your-book-conference-tickets-205733393117

The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration. The AWP Conference & Bookfair has always been a place of connection, reunion, and joy, and we are excited to see the writing community come together again in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2022.

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Exhibit Space T1245

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_author_signings?order_by=ecsa.last_name%2Cecsa.first_name&order_method=ASC&author_name=Patricia+Dunn&orga

The East Bronx History Forum and the Huntington Free Library are pleased to announce the Forum will hold its 163rd meeting on Wednesday, March 16th at 8:00 PM with a ZOOM presentation, Bronx based authors: Patricia Dunn and Philip Cioffari.

PATRICIA DUNN is author of the young adult novel, Rebels by Accident (Sourcebooks Fire). Of her first novel for adults, Last Stop on the 6 (Bordighera Press, November 2021), Kirkus Reviews says, "A novel that brings the Bronx to teeming life with a wry marriage of drama and humor." Her writing has appeared in Salon, TheVillage Voice, The Nation, LA Weekly, and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also been published in the New York Times best-selling anthology, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull); and elsewhere. 

 Dunn has served as Senior Director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she holds an MFA in creative writing. She is a co-founder of The Joe Papaleo Writers Workshop in Cetera, Italy. Patricia coaches aspiring and established writers and teaches creative writing workshops at Westport Writers' Workshop. This Italian-American, Bronx-raised rebel, has traveled the world. She lives in Stamford, Connecticut where she is currently working on her next novel, with her rescue puppy Blanqui snuggled at her side. 

PHILIP CIOFFARI is the author of the novels: If Anyone Asks, Say I Died From the Heartbreaking Blues, The Bronx Kill, Dark Road, Dead End, Jesusville, Catholic Boys,  and the short story collection, A History of Things Lost or Broken which won the Tartt Fiction Prize, and the D. H. Lawrence award for fiction. His short stories have been published widely in commercial and literary magazines and anthologies, including North American Review, Playboy, Michigan Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, Florida Fiction, and Southern Humanities Review. 

He is a playwright member of the Actors Studio in New York City. He has written and directed for Off and Off-Off Broadway. His Indie feature film, which he wrote and directed,w Love in the Age of Dion, has won numerous awards, including Best Feature Film at the Long Island  International Film Expo, and Best Director at the NY Independent Film & Video Festival.He teaches fiction writing at the Gotham Writers Center in NYC.  

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84495347803?pwd=UHdCZ1FwQzg3aGNCek0wL0xPYzcyQT09

Meeting ID: 844 9534 7803
Passcode: 248456

In person book presentation of the novel Last Stop on the 6.

Suggested donation: Up to $30

Proof of vaccination required for all guests

https://casa-belvedere.org/product/in-person-02-08-tuesday-700-pm-book-presentation-last-stop-on-the-six/

This event will take place online, via Google Meet. 

Join us for a virtual Author Talk with Patricia Dunn, author of the novel  Last Stop on the 6 , as she discusses her new novel that takes place in our very own Pelham Bay neighborhood. 

Last Stop on the 6' is the return of the prodigal daughter to a world of long-buried hurts, political complexities, and female resilience. Dunn introduces characters of all possessing questions for which there are no easy answers - only the slow and steady re-awakenings of familial bonds and moral responsibility.

Registrants who attend the program will also be entered in a free book giveaway contest and the winner will receive a free signed copy of the book!

Patricia Dunn is the author of the young adult novel Rebels by Accident (Sourcebooks Fire). Her writing has appeared on Salon, in The Village Voice, The Nation, LA Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor; in the anthology Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull); and elsewhere.

Patricia has been Senior Director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and is co-founder of The Joe Papaleo Writers Workshop in Cetera, Italy. This Italian-American, Bronx-raised, rebel has traveled the world. These days, she can be found on her living room couch working on her next novel, or zooming with aspiring and established writers, of course, always in a suit and tie. Last Stop on the 6, her first novel for adults, is forthcoming with Bordighera Press, Fall 2021. Patricia holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. The link will be sent to you approximately one day before the event. You will need a device with audio and/or video and an internet connection to join via Google Meet.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2021/02/04/author-talk-patricia-dunn

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-with-patricia-dunn-tickets-235425061697?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85141601214?pwd=Y3JwM3VlSmU1SnJMd2RGeUJtQmtldz09

Meeting ID: 851 4160 1214

Passcode: 764691

Moderated by Adele Annesi with Pat Dunn, Christine Kalafus, Valerie Bolling, Liz Matthews, & Sherri T. Mercer 

For most of us, 2021 was a year of transition and uncertainty, a time between the already and the not yet. As we begin a new year and new season of life in 2022, what changes can we anticipate in our writing lives and with our writing goals? What will remain the same? What questions still plague us? What do we hope for, long for, aspire to? Join us for an insightful, interactive discussion of these topics and plans for how we can bring our goals to fruition in ways that motivate and inspire as we move from isolation to community. Bring your questions for Q&A.

WHERE: online via Zoom

TIME: 10am to 11:30am

DATE: Saturday, January 22nd

FREE

https://www.westportwriters.org/product-page/writing-in-the-new-year-from-isolation-to-community-w22

Join I AM Books and NIAF for a conversation with author Patricia Dunn(Last Stop on the 6) and Bordighera Press co-founder Anthony Julian Tamburri. Moderated by Chiara Durazzini and Nicola Orichuia.

Zoom Webinar

Register for free at www.iambooksboston.com/events