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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read More
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... 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... 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... 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. ... Read More
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