The Writer’s Center welcomes Christian McEwen (In Praise of Listening) and Richard Smith (Not a Soul but Us) for a virtual reading and discussion of their latest books. Free and open to the public, register below to receive the Zoom login info.
Christian McEwen is a freelance writer, workshop leader, and cultural activist, originally from the UK. She is the author of a number of books including Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure; World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down, and Sparks from the Anvil: the Smith College Poetry Interviews. Her latest book is In Praise of Listening: A Gathering of Stories, which came out in October 2023. christianmcewen.com
Richard Smith’s first book, Not a Soul but Us, is a narrative in sonnets about the plague pandemic in mid-14th-century England. It won the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was published in 2022 by Bauhan Publishing. His next project is another sonnet narrative, about a group of Tudor-era Benedictine monks before, during, and after Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Richard is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Washington, D.C.
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