The Novel into Film

Tues., Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m.
$3 W&B members / $4 general public

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History Reading Group

Hosted by Steve Huff
Thurs., Jan. 26 , 7 p.m.
Free W&B members, $3 for general public

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Book Kick-off: Poems for an Empty Church by Tom Holmes

Thursday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m.
$3 members and students with ID/ $4 general public

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Beyond Reading: Dracula Event

Monday, January 30, 7 p.m.
Admission is free.

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2 Pages/2 Voices

Performance: January 31, at Writers & Books

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Open Mike Comedy Night

Hosted by Anna Hall
Wed, February. 1, 7-9 p.m.
Free to comics, $3 suggested donation

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The Book Thieves

Hosted by Writers & Books Younger Staff Members
Thurs, Feb 2, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Admission is Free, bring a snack to pass

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Book Kick-off: Poems for an Empty Church by Tom Holmes

Thursday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m.
$3 members and students with ID/ $4 general public

“Tom Holmes writes of birth and death and the life we live in between those two events in beautifully sculpted lines carved into the white space that surrounds them. ‘I dare say I can hear / muddy angels singing /the lines of God,’ he writes in ‘The Calculus of a Tod Marshall Book of Poems.’ There are plenty of angels in Tom Holmes’ poems too, but one must be still enough to hear and appreciate the whisk of wings hovering over these powerful meditations.” —Sarah Freligh

2 Pages/2 Voices

Tuesday, January 31, 8 p.m.
Writers & Books, free admission

We are pleased to announce the playwrights and plays selected for our annual Writers & Books/Geva Theatre Center collaboration, 2 Pages/2 Voices. Local writers submitted short plays, all of which contains the word "bat" in the dialogue.
Come enjoy these winning entries as they receive their first-ever dramatic reading in our performance space at W&B.

Morgan Altland, Rorschach
TD Gillett, BeAuTy
Chris Swanson, A Night Out
Kate Romansky, Made for Each Other
Shelagh Hodson, Book Group
Steven Donner, The Juror and the Foreman
Roxanne L. Baker, Tottering on Covered Ground
Evelyn "Debbie" Jansen, Don't Let Go
David J. Delaney, The Count
Karl Obine, Window Shopping

"If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..." 2012: The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean 

A Madonnas of Leningrad Readers Guide and full "If All of Rochester 2012" Calendar of Events is available now. Click here to view online or here to view as a pdf.

A wonderfully spare and elegant novel in which the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and memory of an elderly Russian woman suffering from Alzheimer's. The novel shifts between two settings: 1941 Leningrad, when the city was surrounded by German troops, and the present-day, as Marina, who had been a docent at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum during WWII, prepares for the wedding of her granddaughter off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. The Madonnas Of Leningrad is first and foremost an eloquent tribute to the beauty and resilience of memory, especially as contrasted to the incomparable devastation that comes with its loss to Alzheimer's.

Regional Playwrights Showcase

Submission Window: January 23 – Feb 7

Writers of all levels of writing experience are invited to submit plays for this event, featuring script-in-hand readings with professional actors and directors at Geva Theatre Center’s Nextstage. Click here for more information and submission guidelines.

Submit scripts to:
Regional Writers Showcase
Writers & Books
740 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1259