The Monadnock Writers Group will hold its annual meeting with MacDowell resident writers Saturday, Sept. 20, at 9:45 a.m. at the James Baldwin Library at MacDowell.
Two current MacDowell Fellows, Lydia Martín and Tamar Raphael, will share their work and answer questions.
Martín is an award-winning fiction writer and journalist who spent 25 years covering Miami’s growth and cultural evolution for the Miami Herald. Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals, magazines and other publications. A GLAAD Media Award winner, she also was part of the Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning team for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. At MacDowell, she is working on a draft of her first novel.
Raphael, an Israeli writer based in Berlin, is the author of the debut novel, “There Were Two with Nothing to Do,” which received an honorable mention from the Brener Award for debut fiction. Her poetry collection, “Receding Songs,” received the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets. Her poems and short stories have appeared in a range of literary magazines and journals. At MacDowell, she is writing her second novel, exploring themes of immigration, memory and the politics of trauma.
The Monadnock Writers Group meets the third Saturday of every month, September through June. All meetings are free. For information, visit monadnockwriters.org.