Calendar of local literary events
Scroll down to check out out all the incredible activities that are happening soon! If you are hosting a literary event for our area, please contact us to be added to the calendar for free.
March 2024
Friday, March 15, 6pm: Open Mic with guest host Jay Klugh. Bring your work to share before an open and enthusiastic audience!
Sunday, March 17, 1-4 pm: Publishing Workshop featuring Lawrence Knorr, author and owner of Sunbury Press, Katie Ziegler, owner of Meraki Press and Michael Dittman, author and English professor at Slippery Rock University. Join us for a couple of sessions on publishing through a company or for yourself and we’ll end with a chance to share your work during a guided peer review.
Monday, March 18 through Monday, April 1: Spring 2024 Submissions! Check out our guidelines for more information. Hope to hear from you!
Sunday, March 24, 2pm: Writer’s Block Party meeting
Latest Blog Posts
- Coming of age while facing the Apocalypse: Writing Avoiding the RaptureBy Karen Weyant It was 1983, and the talk in my fifth-grade classroom focused on the new movie, The Day After that was going to be televised. Everyone seemed to be getting ready to… Read more: Coming of age while facing the Apocalypse: Writing Avoiding the Rapture
- Empowering Literary Voices: Join Our 2024 Membership Program and Shape the Future of Our Nonprofit Literary CenterIn the heart of the Pennsylvania Wilds, The Watershed Journal nonprofit literary center is not just a hub for writers and readers; it’s a thriving community that champions inclusive publishing and supports the literary… Read more: Empowering Literary Voices: Join Our 2024 Membership Program and Shape the Future of Our Nonprofit Literary Center
- In Praise of the Short Poemby Wayne H. Swanger In Praise of the Short Poem I find myself writing more and more short poems, that is, poems of fewer than ten lines. My first thought was that the muse… Read more: In Praise of the Short Poem
- “Exposed” by Byron HootExposed Byron Hoot I cannot read certain authors without feeling ashamed. As if all my flaws are exposed. The gift of writing is the double-entendre: what is said, what is meant, the layered lexicography… Read more: “Exposed” by Byron Hoot
- New (Still Free) Submissions ProcessSpring Submissions Starts March 6 Submissions for the Spring 2023 Edition goes from March 6-20 and we hope you’ll join in and help us make our 20th issue a special one! We are looking… Read more: New (Still Free) Submissions Process