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  • Speaker Jess Elliott: Maximizing Goodreads

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Jess Elliott will talk at the monthly meeting of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville about the website Goodreads, how and why you should use it and how to get the most out of it.

  • Speaker Dillon Knight Kalkhurst: Getting off the Corporate Ladder and Digging in the Trenches

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Dillon Knight Kalkhurst, a successful entrepreneur with over twenty years in a corporate setting, will speak about the experiences and skills he would like to pass on to current and future authors. 1. Why he wrote A Guide to Generational Harmony. 2. Why he choose self-publishing over a traditional publisher. … Read More

  • Local Author Series – Gail Rose Thompson

    Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A Rm. B, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL, United States

    Note: Held in Meeting Room B of the Alachua Library Headquarters Branch Gail Rose Thompson will present her nonfiction Iran from Crown to Turban, relating tales of life in Iran during the time of the Pahlavi Crown, the revolution and post-revolutionary times. Her images of the country are far different … Read More

  • Lola Haskins to Read from New Book

    Alachua County Library Headquarters Downtown 401 E. University Ave., 4th Floor, Gainesville, FL, United States

    On Wednesday evening, October 2, Author Lola Haskins will read from her new book, Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019). Come enjoy the program, which is free. A book signing will follow. Haskins’ other works include How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar, 2016), The … Read More

  • Bacopa Readings

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Come hear readings from Bacopa Literary Review 2019, the print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Local authors who contributed to Bacopa Literary Review will be present to read from their 2019 contributions, including Robbie Curry, James Thompson, Jennifer Grant, Dror Abend-David, Zachary West, Grayson May, Marie Q … Read More

  • Thornebrook Art Festival

    Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville

    Books by WAG members will be sold at the 35th Annual Art Festival at Thornebrook, 2441 NW 43rd Street, October 12-13. The festival features music, food, and the works of about 130 artists, including writers. Mark your calendar now so you won't miss this fun event! WAG members interested in … Read More

  • Local Author Series – James Williams

    Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A 4th Floor, Rm. A, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL

    Author James F. Williams will discuss and read from his first novel, The Pedestrians, a wry, social science-fiction thriller. Set in 2097's Manhattan Island City, a gated community, data hunter Dale Evans tracks evidence to solve a brutal murder on Wall Street, the city’s red-light district. A terrifying plunge from … Read More