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A born and bred New Yorker and lifelong daydreamer, Meredith Schorr fueled her passion for writing everything from restaurant reviews, original birthday cards, and even work-related emails into a career penning romantic comedies. When she’s not writing books filled with grand gestures and hard-earned happily-ever-afters or working as a trademark paralegal, she’s most often reading, running, or watching TV…for research, of course.

Lindsay Lovise writes historical and paranormal romances with brave heroines and a twist of mystery. Although she earned degrees in English and teaching, she always knew she wanted to write stories about love. Her debut historical romance, NEVER BLOW A KISS, was chosen as one of Amazon Editors’ best romances of 2024 When she’s not writing, Lindsay is reading (probably romance), drinking coffee, and avoiding laundry. She currently lives in New York, but was born and raised in Maine where the winters make for perfect reading weather.

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David Denby was born in New York City in 1943, and was educated at Columbia and Stanford.  He is the author of Great Books (1996), an acclaimed account of returning to college and reading the Western classics during the curriculum wars; American Sucker (2004), his wrenching memoir of getting caught up in the stock market at the time of the tech bubble and the breakup of his marriage; Snark (2009), a polemic against the spread of nasty low sarcasm as a journalistic style in the Internet age; Do the Movies Have a Future? (2012), a collection of his best movie criticism from The New Yorker; Lit Up (2016), a prequel to Great Books, in which he embeds in tenth-grade English classes at three public schools to see if—and how—teenagers can be turned on to serious reading; and Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer (2025), a biography of four American Jews who emerged after the Second World War and triumphed by means of their own gifts and the new media of television, the long-playing record, mass-market paperbacks, and the like. Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer were free in a way that Jews had never been free before. They led creative and tumultuous lives, made trouble for themselves and others, and changed American culture. Denby is a staff writer and former film critic for The New Yorker, and his reviews and essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and New York magazine (where he was film critic from 1978 to 1998), among other places. He lives in New York City with his wife, novelist Susan Rieger. He has two sons and two grandsons.

Ross Benjamin is a translator of German-language literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his translation of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, and he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. His other translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and The Director.

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The All Ways Writing Circle offers time, space, community, and inspiration to get some writing done. This is for anyone who wants to write—in any genre—and would benefit from dedicated time. Facilitated by Lily Greenberg, participants will be offered a prompt, approximately 45 minutes to write, then a chance to share their work in a warm and supportive group setting. No experience needed, all genres welcome. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Admission is $12.
Participants are encouraged to register on Eventbrite. Walk-ins are also welcome, and can pay at the door by cash, check, or Venmo.
Starting July 11, 2024, our venue is Creative Arts Workshop https://www.arts-workshop.com/ , 171 Main Street Nyack, NY.
For more info and FAQ, visit our website https://allwayswriting.org/writing-circles/ .
This program is offered by All Ways Writing Collective https://allwayswriting.org/ , a group which organizes writing circles, workshops, salons, and author readings in the lower Hudson Valley of New York (Rockland County). Our community members range from aspiring to established writers, and we strive to make our events accessible and engaging for all. Learn more about our community on our Instagram @allwayswriting and our website allwayswriting.org https://allwayswriting.org/ .
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LILY GREENBERG is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022). Her work has appeared in New England Review, Ecotone, On the Seawall, Cortland Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and lives in Nyack, New York. More about her at lily-greenberg.com https://lily-greenberg.com/ .

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Ruth Franklin is the author of the critically acclaimed biographies The Many Lives of Anne Frank, hailed as a “tour de force [that] sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come,” and Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (2011), was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Writing. Her writing appears in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books,  Harper’s, and more. She lives in Brooklyn.

Ross Benjamin is a translator of German-language literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his translation of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, and he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. His other translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and The Director.

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Our weekly poets circle, Circle Up, is happening every Thursday night from 6 PM to 7 PM at X House in Nyack. This week, I’m thinking on doing a performance/delivery workshop, but usually we do either writing or editing. If you want weekly emails or texts about that, let me know and I can add you to the proper list. If you can swing it, cost is $5, paid directly to the venue.

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