Literature
Meet the Author: Paul Gaus and the Amish Country Mysteries Series [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Paul Gaus is a native Ohioan, who has had a life-long fascination with the Amish culture, particularly as expressed in the county where he grew up, Holmes, which has the largest Amish population in the world. Taking inspiration from fellow mystery-writer and friend, the late Tony Hillerman, Gaus writes mysteries that authentically and respectfully explore... Read More
Fiction Writing Series [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Receive an introduction to the basic bones of the craft: character, plot, setting and scene, and how they work together to breathe life into your story. These four integrated seminars will consist of mini-lectures, examples and discussion. It is strongly recommended that participants make a point of seeing the movie, Casablanca, as examples from that... Read More
NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program (Weekly Virtual Program)
NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program (YWP) is a national program that "focuses on developing students’ creative voices, writing fluency, resilience, and self-efficacy." Join Athens County Public Libraries' YWP Club to meet virtually with other young writers in the area, take part in weekly writing challenges, and set your own writing goals! You'll have access to an online writing space through... Read More
NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program (Weekly Virtual Program)
NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program (YWP) is a national program that "focuses on developing students’ creative voices, writing fluency, resilience, and self-efficacy." Join Athens County Public Libraries' YWP Club to meet virtually with other young writers in the area, take part in weekly writing challenges, and set your own writing goals! You'll have access to an online writing space through... Read More
Virtual Bandits Book Club/NCBC
"Virtual Bandits" is our online version of the Next Chapter Book Club, a reading group inclusive of developmentally disabled adults. If you want to join us, please register, making sure you provide an email address to which your invitation will be sent.
Winter Book Club: The Underground Railroad (In 3 parts) [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Winner of the National Book Award (2016), The Pulitzer Prize (2017) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2017), Colson Whitehead's novel of slaves seeking escape from thralldom in 19th Century America is actually a work of historical science fiction, a parallel world where the Underground Railroad is literally a functioning secret railroad beneath the ground... Read More
Play Discussion: Tantrum Theater’s Spring Awakening [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Discussing a play elicits added dimensions for analysis. Read a copy of the play by Frank Wedekind that is the source for the 2006 musical of the same name by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. The musical will be performed by Tantrum Theater, a professional drama group based at Ohio University currently offering its performances through... Read More
Beowulf Book Club: A New Translation, Part 1 of 3 [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Fantasy-writer Maria Dahvana Headley, gives Beowulf a contemporary, cool, punk, and most especially feminist spin, redressing a tradition of translation with a 19th & 20th century masculine bias that has arguably distorted the intentions of the original Old English in its portrayal of female characters. Headley’s is a translation for the 21st century--join us to... Read More
Meet the Author: Terri Mash and The Cultured Girl [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Local author Terri Mash has created a book of poems, short stories and charming illustrations that capture what life was like growing up in rural Southeast Ohio in the 1960s. Get to know the author and how she came to write the book, and hear excerpts read live by the author.
Fiction Writing: Finding Your Narrative Voice [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
This seminar will also look at opening passages in various works of fiction and analyze what the narrative voice in each promises the reader. With Amy Coombs, MFA