615 W Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington
IN 7404
Join the Writers Guild for an early Halloween celebration!
First Sunday Prose Reading Series
Sunday, October 6, 2024
4pm to 5:30pm
Juniper Art Gallery and Cafe
Featured Readers will be Rebekah Spivey and James Dorr, with an open mic to follow.
Please no outside food or drink!
Please note the new start time of 4pm!
Rebekah Spivey studied creative writing and sociology at Indiana University. She has lived and worked on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. She is a lifelong writer and lover of words who has co-created and led a group called Poetry Detectives, an informal group that discusses poetry in a non-academic way in order to make the genre more approachable. She has a seventeen-year association with Women Writing for (a) Change, Bloomington, a group that supports giving every person a voice through writing. Rebekah has been a certified facilitator with Women Writing since 2013 and currently facilitates a semester-long virtual class. She has coordinated a Women Writing for (a) Change retreat on the Isle of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. And facilitates winter writing retreats for Women Writing.
Rebekah retired in 2012 from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper at IU after seventeen years as part of the professional staff.
She has been a part-time senior editor for a self-publishing company since 2019. And is an editor for private clients.
Rebekah retired in 2012 from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper at IU after seventeen years as part of the professional staff.
Rebekah’s first novel, Marigolds in Boxes, was released in September 2024.
A short fiction writer and sometime poet, James Dorr currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht. An Indiana resident, Dorr invites readers to visit his blog at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com