First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

The featured readers are: Carol Edge and  Hiromi Yoshida

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

Hiromi Yoshida is an independent editing and writing professional, who has contributed to Bloom Magazine, Limestone Post, The Bloomingtonian, Ryder Magazine, and Video Librarian. She teaches for the Indiana Writers Center, while serving on the editorial boards for Flying Island Journal, Plath Profiles, and Gidra Magazine. She is the Literary Arts Representative for the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, and Coordinator of the Last Sunday Poetry & Open Mic program for the Writers Guild at Bloomington. She is the author of Joyce & Jung: The “Four Stages of Eroticism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and her prose poems have been published in Work Literary Magazine, Indiana Voice Journal, and Beorh Weekly.

Carol Edge, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, made her way to Bloomington via Illinois, Germany, and Tennessee. Along the way, she earned a certificate in graphic arts at Nashville State Technical Institute and degrees in English and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. The constants in her life are Ron, their son Tim, and a long line of cat companions.

For more than 14 years she worked in publications at the IU Alumni Association and another few years doing publications and PR for the IU Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.

After retiring from the work world, Carol finally had time to focus on writing. Her first mystery novel — Blood Terminal — is on the local authors shelf at Morgenstern’s and at the public library. She is now editing her second mystery, which she expects to publish later this year.

On Feb 5, she’ll read a couple of pieces from a “flash memoir” she began during the pandemic and, if there’s time, a short bit from Blood Terminal.

Book Launch

Terry Sloan and  Jon Vickers 

QUESTIONABLE POEMS from Beyond the Event Horizon

A book of poems and collages.

For more info, contact Terry Sloan wasloan@indiana.edu

Charlotte Zietlow: Author Talk and book signing

A talk with the grande dame of Bloomington politics, the legendary Charlotte T. Zietlow.

In her new book, 1971: How We Won.

Charlotte Zietlow recounts the history of her first run for office. The memoir is a 220-page look back at the momentous election that permanently changed the politics and governance of our city.

“I’ve been eager to tell this story for quite some time,” Charlotte states. “Although the times have changed, many of the concerns of the city really haven’t.”

Zietlow, who served as a Monroe County commissioner for two terms in the eighties and ran for Congress and mayor of Bloomington,

is still active in local politics as an octogenarian. This isn’t even her first book; her autobiography, “Minister’s Daughter,” co-authored with Michael Glab, was published in 2019.

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Poetry Matters at Morgenstern’s

will feature Alex Chambers

 Alex is a Bloomington writer and poet, as well as host and producer of Inner States, a weekly arts and culture series on WFIU.

Come hear him read from his book BINDING: A PREPARATION, published by Ledge Mule Press,

followed by a conversation about his book, poetry, writing, and anything else that catches his fancy.

The event will take place at Morgenstern Books in the back at the conference table.

The store will have copies of his book for sale prior to and during the event.

Hope to see you there!

Writers Guild at Bloomington

Monthly Business Meeting

Coffee with Friends

with author Susan Neville

Join us in a conversation with Susan Neville, the author of essays and stories inspired by the history, culture, and people of Indiana.

She has won numerous literary awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Richard Sullivan Prize from the Notre Dame Review,

and her newest book, The Town of Whispering Dolls, won the Catherine Doctorow Award for Short Fiction.

She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the winner of two Pushcart Prize awards.

Neville graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis, DePauw University, Bowling Green State University,

and in 2021, she retired from teaching at Butler University after 38 years.

A Historical Fiction Sampler 

with Carol Edge, Wendy Teller and Karen Wyle

What do a Western romance, a Southern murder mystery, and a Hungarian social upheaval have in common?

Whatever the story, the historical fiction genre offers intriguing settings — and makes similar demands on the author.

These three authors will speak about their writing processes, present readings, and welcome questions from the audience.