Virtual Reading | 2025 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence

October 12 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Please join us for a virtual reading featuring the 2025 Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence! Featured writers will share short excerpts from their work developed while in residence at the Mount this past spring. Following the reading will be a short Q & A with the writers.

Featuring: Lizzy Beck, Darlene Elias, Zite Ezeh, Melenie Freedom Flynn, Thaddeus Haas, Irene Jiang, Michael Jerome Plunkett, Mason Wray, and Brenton Zola.

This event is FREE and open to the public!
To receive the Zoom link, registration is required:

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Questions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org

The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writing Residency offers one-week residencies during the month of March to nine emerging poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Additional information and application instructions can be found here.

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