Classes & Workshops

Maybe you fell in love with your first Phalaenopsis a while back and, like some of us, have encountered via YouTube growers of more “exotic” orchids: cattleyas, oncidiums, cycnodes, and others. Challenge your grower’s hand with something new!

Join us for 60 to 90 minutes discussing and potting a selection of lovely exotics. We’ll talk about origins, care needs, and how we might accommodate them in our homes.

Orchids, pots, and medium will be provided. Depending on enrollment, attendees will go home with 2-3 plants. Varieties may include cycnodes, oncicium, cattleya, and phalaenopsis, but specifics will depend on nursery stock.

There will also be books, of course!

$50
You'll be asked to register with our website, which will allow us to record your enrollment.

Please register by Friday, October 24. Minimum enrollment for this event is 10.

Let Martin Cahill read to you from his fantasy debut. Nesi, a would-be acolyte, auditions to serve the Fox, the trickster deity in a pantheon of spirit animals. But the Fox's idea of an appropriate trial uproots Nesi from her own peaceful place and time, and asks her to risk life and limb for justice.

“If you love my worlds, you’re going to love Cahill’s: stunning imagination, daring premises, and deep character dives. A new author to watch.”
—N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth series

$15 includes purchase of the book at a special price.
You'll be asked to register with our website, which will allow us to record your enrollment.

If you've already bought the book in store or via our portal at Bookshop.org, your proof of purchase will be your ticket.

Martin Cahill has published short fiction in venues including Fireside, Reactor, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, and Nightmare. Cahill’s stories “The Fifth Horseman” and “Godmeat” were respectively nominated for the Ignyte Award and included in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. He was also one of the writers on Batman: The Blind Cut and a contributor to Critical Role: Vox Machina – Stories Untold. Cahill lives in New York. Visit him on the web at https://martintcahill.wordpress.com/.

FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC VOICE: Writing from the Emotional World of the Protagonist

In this one hour workshop, for writers of all genres and styles, we'll explore how to locate and write from our work's authentic, compelling voice. Voice arises naturally from the emotional world of our protagonist. We don't need to force it or even think it up.

We'll look at examples of voice from novels, short stories and a screenplay, then we'll practice the technique with our own work in progress or from a prompt, taking away a felt, intuitive approach to language, cadence, rhythm and structure that tells our stories, imagined or real, with earned momentum and genuine depth.

Thursday October 2 at 6pm
$10
You'll be asked to register with our website, which will allow us to record your enrollment.

Jeff W. Bens is author of the novels The Mighty Oak and Albert, Himself. Jeff's short fiction and essays are published widely. He teaches at Manhatanville University.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.