Hobart Festival of Women Writers preview event at Bushel

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Bushel will host a flash reading event Friday, Aug. 12, 4–6 p.m., in anticipation of the 10th annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers, which will be Sept. 9–11 in Hobart. 

Doors open at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12 for this advance event at Bushel; readings will begin at 4:30 featuring eight writers associated with the Festival - Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, Esther Cohen, Ginnah Howard, Anna Moschovakis, Bertha Rogers, Leslie T. Sharpe, and Lisa Wujnovich. Each will read for five minutes; a reception will follow the flash readings. This event is free and open to the public at Bushel, 106 Main Street, ground floor, in Delhi. 

Hobart Festival of Women Writers is an annual weekend event of writers’ workshops and public readings that take place in Hobart, New York, dubbed “The Book Village of the Catskills.” Novelists, short-story and young-adult fiction writers, memoirists, poets, and bloggers come from all over to share their work. All writers and lovers of books and women’s writing are welcome to participate in the Festival of Women Writers. For more information visit www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com.