History

Inkberry offered its first slate of programs in the spring of 2001. Since then we’ve offered a great many readings, workshops, book discussion groups, and events, as well as special programs which aimed to serve teens, breast cancer survivors, and other groups within the northern Berkshire community.

Here’s a list of our workshops, readings, and events. Someday we may add bios, photographs, and other information to the list; for now, it serves as a brief reminder of the programs we’ve worked to put before our community.

Readings, Events, and Workshops at Inkberry

Readings & Events

Alicia Ostriker

Donald Hall

Claire Messud

Bernice Lewis

Pam Houston

Karen Pepper & Michelle Gillett

Abbot Cutler & Patricia Crane

Elinor Lipman

Martin Espada

Ken Waldman

David Lehman

Frank Tempone

Asha Bandele

Norton Owen

Bob Hicok & Aaron Jorgensen

Kate Abbott, George Drew, Greg Sheckler, Ted Conover, & Clara Park

Jeannie Atkins

Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women

Mark Doty & Aaron Beatty

Wyn Cooper

Lawrence Raab

Rick Moody

Deidre Bollinger & Joyce Lazarus

Laure-Anne Bosselaar & Meg Kearney

Drinkberry

Genie Zeiger & Jacqueline Sheehan

Howard Cruse

Maureen Howard

Shawn Durrett, Adrie Lester, Chivas Sandage, & Kirtland Snyder

Shin Yu Pai & Scott Withiam

Sandra Kohler & Diane Lockward

Jessica Hagedorn & Susan Choi

Inklings

An Evening of Novelists: Ali Benjamin, Pam Summa, & David Essinger

Jim & Karen Shepard

Mary A. Koncel, Jeffrey Levine, & Margaret Szumowski

Trudy Ames & Dan Tobin

An Evening of Local Nonfiction

A Celebration of Poetry: Poetry Slam

Patricia Lee Lewis & Diane Wald

April Bernard & Marc Wunderlich

Philip Lopate

Susan Cheever

John Dicker

Andrea Barrett (& Jill Gilbreth)

Reverend Burt Marshall

Literary Salon

The Moon Is Broken

Anne Waldman (with Ellen Dore Watson & Ilya Kaminsky)

Ink Slink

Inkstravaganza!

Jennifer Niesslein, Jennifer Mattern, & Catherine Newman

Julia Glass & Margot Livesey

Elizabeth Winthrop

Jim Shepard (with Trudy Ames)

WordPlay Events

Matt Silliman

Charles O’Brien

Paul Marino

Upstreet (lit zine)

Williamstown: The first 200 years

Vivian Dorsel & Frank Merrigan

Jocelyn Emerson, Tara Gorvine, Joshua Michael Stuary, & Sophie Wadsworth

The Moon is Broken (Response)

A.Randall Bentley

J. Peter Bergman

Slate Roof Writers (Trish Crapo, Jim Bell, & Art Stein)

Paul Clermont

Bill Belcher

SCRiV (MCLA Student Writers)

Paul Park

Eileen Gloster

Omar Shapli

Kelli Newby

Derek Mong & Jeffrey McRae

David McLaughlin

Omar Shapli

Leith Colen

Derek Gentile

Michelle LaFlamme-Childs

Workshops

Flash Fiction (taught by Alix Olin)

Art of the Journal

Sustaining Ourselves as Artists Through Transitions (taught by Martin Blackman)

Reading Rumi (taught by William Darrow)

Speak Up, Speak Out (taught by Rachel Barenblat)

Reading Each Others’ Sacred Stories (Rev. Rick Spalding, Rabbi Dennis Ross)

Finding Your Own Poetic Voice (taught by Laurie Zupan)

Mixed-Genre Intro to Creative Writing

Wishes, Lies, and Dreams

Everyone’s a Critic (Seth Rogovoy)

Sex Scenes for Everyone (Hanne Blank)

Introduction to Screen Writing (Alix Ohlin)

Preserve Your Family History (Joe Manning)

Words In Space (Ann Kremers)

Getting Started (Rachel Barenblat)

The Lyric Poem (Rachel Barenblat)

Resources for Nature Writers (Tammis Coffin)

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Writing Ourselves to Wisdom (Elayne Clift)

Writing From the Center (David Lane)

What does it Mean to be an American Writer? (Judith Monachina)

Japanese bookbinding (Ann Kremers)

The Art of the One-Act Play (Jennifer Mattern)

Our Words, Our Selves (Michael Card)

The Art of Revision: Tools Every Poet Should Own (Laure-Anne Bosselaar & Meg Kearney)

Bringing a Character to Life

Lives in Pictures (Rachel Barenblat)

A Certain Slant of Light

The Letter as Literature (Alice DeBerry Kane)

Playing in Poetry (Rachel Barenblat)

Creating a Process, Trusting the Creator (Sandra Kohler)

A Poem a Day (Michelle Gillett)

Writing Mysteries & Thrillers (Carla Coupe)

Pulling it all Together: Preparing Your Poetry Manuscript for Publication (Susan Kan & Gail Thomas)

Soundwork and Form (C.J. Sage)

Introduction to Fantasy & Horror (Nick Mamatas)

The Art of the Short Screenplay (Jennifer Peepas)

Confessional Poetry and the Path Through the Dark (Laura Finnell)

Introduction to Food Writing

Thursday Night Critique

Revising Your Fiction (taught by Teri Mathes)

Careers for Writers (taught by Linda McCauley Freeman)

Wide Awake Writing (taught by Anne Waldman)

Writing the Novel (taught by Susan Stinson)

Writing the Body (taught by Josie Milliken)

Awakening New Poems (taught by Carol Edelstein)

Ekphrastic Poetry Writing

Writing Linked Fiction (taught by Joanna Luloff)

Writing the Sacred: The Art of Writing Psalms (led by Ray McGinnis)

The Artist Statement (taught by Lauren O’Neal)

Plumping our Poems, Flashing Our Fiction (taught by Derek Mong)

Scriv (facilitated by Sondra Murphy)

Stomp, Swing, Swoon, & Croon: Writing Our Poems with the Radio On (taught by Derek Mong)

Lighten Up: An Introduction to Light Verse (taught by Seth Brown)

Standing Tall (led by Rachel Barenblat)

Book discussion groups

Classic Science Fiction (led by Sandy Ryan)

New England Voices (led by Rachel Barenblat)

Books Make the Best Eating (led by Daniel Wallace)

American Literature (led by Cass Cleghorn)