The Sleeping Giant Reading Series brings writers and book lovers together on the third Thursday of the month. In the long shadow of Hamden’s Sleeping Giant, writers of every kind gather to hear professional readings, raise a glass, network, and support one another’s work. All are welcome, whether you’re a scribbler who hasn’t yet dared to call yourself a “writer” or an experienced published author.
For September’s Installment, we have writers Sheila Dietz and Nalini Jones.
Join us for first-hour readings by our featured guest writers, including some of the great voices of our day, followed by Writers’ Happy Hour, a chance to meet fellow writers, ask questions, lend your support, and have fun together!
Sheila Dietz’s The Berry and the Bee won the 2023 Gerald Cable First Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. David Wojahn has said that her poems offer “a glimpse of divinity at one moment, and a reckoning with dread in the next.” Sheila grew up in the Netherlands, attended a Dutch school and began conceiving of the world in literary terms at an early age. She has been a Bread Loaf Scholar and won an Individual Artist Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Sheila was a librarian at the New Haven Free Public Library for many years. She’s the co-founder of New Haven’s Salt and Pepper Gospel singers.
The Kirkus review of Nalini Jones’s new novel, The Unbroken Coast, notes that she “writes with extraordinary empathy for her characters. . . .peppering her prose with sharply observed aphorisms: ‘This was what the world did: press in on you with its bad-news this and so-sad that, snatch away what little time you had to see to your own affairs, fill your head with pictures you wished you’d never seen.’” She’s also published a story collection, What You Call Winter, and nonfiction about politics, jazz, folk music, travel, etc. She’s won O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, and an NEA fellowship. Nalini teaches at Fairfield University.
Curated by local writers Alice Mattison, Sandi Shelton (aka Maddie Dawson), Kathy Czepiel, and Heather Jessen, the Sleeping Giant Reading Series happens every third Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Best Video Film and Cultural Center in Hamden, Connecticut. The Sleeping Giant Reading Series is free to attend. Donations at the door for our guest readers are always appreciated.
You may also like the following events from Best Video Film & Cultural Center:
- This Friday, 12th September, 07:00 pm, Dave Brooks, The Problem With Kids Today at Best Video Fri., Sept. 12 in Hamden
- This month, 27th September, 07:00 pm, Velvet, Blandest, Sowing at Best Video Sat., Sept. 27 in Hamden
Also check out other
Arts events in Hamden,
Literary Art events in Hamden,
Music events in Hamden.
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