http://www.inkberry.org Combined Inkberry.org feed: InkBlog, writing exercises, news, and upcoming events en-us http://www.inkberry.org/events/index.html#link850 http://www.inkberry.org/events/index.html#link850 Papyri Books, 45 Eagle St., North Adams MA<br />Saturday, August 9, from 7pm-9pm<br /> <b>Free</b> <br/> <p>North Adams native Michelle Laflamme-Childs is a poet, essayist, and arts administrator currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts and St. John’s College, and having fled the corporate world in 2006, is now the Administrative Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute.</p> <p>Laflamme-Childs has just completed a stint at the prestigious Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and has recently published a chapbook entitled “Love and Lovers.” Having written poems secretly for over 25 years, she has only opted to share them with the world at large within the last year, and has had poems optioned by a variety of regional arts &amp; culture magazines. Laflamme-Childs has been reading publicly around Northern and Central New Mexico and is currently working on a book length manuscript entitled “Chiaroscuro.”</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/events/index.html#link850">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/events/index.html#link849 http://www.inkberry.org/events/index.html#link849 Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams MA<br />Saturday, July 12, from 7pm-9pm<br /> <b>Free</b> <br/> <p>Derek Gentile is an award-winning journalist for The Berkshire Eagle and the baseball historian for Berkshire County. He is the author of eight nonfiction books, including <i>The Complete Boston Red Sox, The Complete New York Yankees, The Complete Chicago Cubs, Baseball’s Best 1,000,</i> and <i>Smooth Moves,</i> a history of professional basketball. The <i>Vanilla Envelope</i> is his first book of fiction. Set in Berkshire County, this mystery novel follows the adventures of an unusual private eye, Tony Rizzuto, and his loyal sidekick Cuba as they investigate the heist of $250,000 from a prominent Berkshire institution. 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Also, looking ahead to light verse, and more news about The Write Stuff.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/843.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/842.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/842.html <br/><br/><p>Introductions from new board member Amy Stevens, the Cleaner Plate Club, and local literary goings-on</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/842.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/841.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/841.html <br/><br/><p>NaNoWriMo at Inkberry and local literary goings-on.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/841.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/840.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/840.html MCLA Beacon, November 15 2007: Carri Winters, Contributing Editor <br/><br/> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/840.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/blog/828.html http://www.inkberry.org/blog/828.html Rachel Barenblat:<p>Inkblog has a new home on wordpress, <a href=http://inkberry.wordpress.com/>here</a>!</p> <p>Inkberry&#8217;s blog has picked up shop &amp; moved to a new home on wordpress. That new home is <a href=http://inkberry.wordpress.com/>here</a>, and we hope you&#8217;ll update your blogrolls, your bookmarks, and your aggregators / feed readers. </p> <p>In the new year we&#8217;ll be making use of inkblog in a bunch of new ways. Soon this old blog will quietly disappear, and the new one will take its place. We hope you&#8217;ll join us there, and be a part of inkberry&#8217;s continuing adventures.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/inkblog/828.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/827.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/827.html <br/><br/><p>What a difference a year makes: Jill looks back on 2007.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/827.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/826.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/826.html <br/><br/><p>Linda White and Bill Belcher introduce themselves and explain how they became involved with Inkberry.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/826.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/825.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/825.html <br/><br/><p>Interviewing writer-in-residence candidates, a look at fall, plus glimpses of local people and happenings.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/825.html">[read more]</a> http://www.inkberry.org/news/824.html http://www.inkberry.org/news/824.html <br/><br/><p>A tiny taste of summer; stepping up for the Write Stuff; local literary happenings.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.inkberry.org/news/824.html">[read more]</a>