Join us on the first Monday of every month at 7PM at the UConn B&N Bookstore at Storrs Center. 
Hang out, listen to some riveting stories, and meet us for a drink at Geno's afterwards. 

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November 6, 2017

Ellen Meeropol
​is the author of three novels: Kinship of Clover, ​On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest​. A former nurse practitioner and bookseller, Ellen's recent essay publications include The Writer​, Guernica, The Cleaver, Necessary Fiction​, and Writer's Chronicle. She is co-founder and board president of Straw Dog Writers Guild. 

Sarah Gilligan 
is currently completing The Genius of Connecticut, her collection of short stories. She has previously written a series of essays about her tangle with breast cancer, and she has been running her writing and graphic design firm Cerebration for more than twenty-five years. Her work has been published by Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, and she recently earned an honorable mention in the 2017 Short Story America Prize. Sarah lives in Windsor with her husband and two daughters. 

Joan Seliger Sidney
is the author of Bereft and Blessed, Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir and The Way the Past Comes Back. She has received individual artist poetry fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the recipient of a Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Yale.  She’s Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.  In addition, she facilitates "Writing for Your Life," an adult writing workshop.

December 4, 2017 

Aaron Tillman
is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College. His short story collection Every Single Bone in My Brain was published in July 2017. He received a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories​, and his fiction has appeared in several journals, including Glimmer Train and Mississippi Review. More details are available on his website: aarontillmanfiction.com. 

Christine Kalafus's 
essays have appeared in The Woven Tale Press, The Writer in the World, and PAGE Arts Journal. "I Hear You Make Cakes," performed at Laugh Boston, was selected by The Moth for its podcast. Blueprint for Daylight is Christine's memoir-in-progress. It's a story of survival: from her husband's affair, a cancer diagnosis, twins, and the water in her basement - all determined to swallow her whole. ​​

Edmond Chibeau 
​is a performance writer. His work has been published in The Nation, Multicultural Review, New England Theatre Journal, The World, EAR Magazine, California Quarterly, and ​Santa Barbara News and Review. His work has been performed at the Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Hall, the Knitting Factory, The Ear Inn,  and Hygienic Art. He has worked with John Cage, Alison Knowles, and Charles Bernstein, among others. He teaches scriptwriting at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Don't forget to submit your one-sentence story!

Find Your Voice at Yale 

The Yale Writers' Conference brings together the experience and expertise of leading teachers, authors, editors, agents, and publishers in a series of panels and workshops for the benefit of writers the world over. We offer two sessions on Yale's historic campus that match the needs of any serious writer. 

For more information, visit: http://summer.yale.edu/academics/yale-writers-conference

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Elephant Rock Books: Stories You Won't Forget

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