Chapter News
Past Events
2011/12 |
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| September | Mystery Panel featuring Hank Phillippi Ryan and Hallie Ephron – see photos |
2010/11 |
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| June | WNBA National Meeting in New York – see photos |
| May | Boston Chapter Annual Meeting – see photos |
| April | Different Cultures, Different Lands Author Panel – see photos |
| March | Private Lunch with an Author – see photos from the lunch with Roberta Gately |
| December | Holiday Tea at Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston – see photos from the 2010 Holiday Tea |
| October | National Reading Group Month Author Panel. See photos. |
| September | Guilty Pleasures: Books we love, but are slightly ashamed to admit. See photos. |
2009/10 |
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| May | Poets and Authors at Mount Auburn Cemetery: A Literary Tour. See photos. |
| March | The Electronic World: Reading, Publishing, Distributing. See photos. |
| January | Dinner with Elinor Lippman – click here to see photos and read more about this event. |
| December | Holiday Tea, with Massachusetts Book Award winners: Oni Buchanan, Nancy Werlin, and Katie Smith Milway – see photos from the 2009 Holiday Tea |
| October | National Reading Group Month, with Lisa Genova, Katherine Howe, and Margot Livesey |
2008/09 |
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| June | Annual dinner with Hank Phillippi Ryan |
| May | Tour and Tea at the Boston Athenaeum |
| April | Should I Be on the Web??? |
| March | Is That Your Child? Mothers talk about rearing biracial children |
| December | Holiday Tea with Massachusetts Book Award Winners: Eric Jay Dolin, Moira Linehan, Kathleen Benner Duble |
| October | National Reading Group Month, seven authors: Joan Anderson, Judy Gelman and Vicki Krupp, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Harleman, Judith Nies, Deborah Noyes, Gina Ogden |
| September | Making Our Membership Directory Come Alive |
2007/08 |
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| June | Annual dinner with Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: the story and science of the reading brain |
| May | Tour and Tea at the Boston Athenaeum |
| April | The art of the memoir, featuring Richard Hoffman, Sophie Freud, Judith Nies and John Sedgwick |
| December | Holiday Tea |
| October | National Reading Group Month with Jennifer Haigh |
| September | First and Last Book, discussion by members of the first book each remembered from childhood and the current book each is reading |
2006/07 |
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| June | National WNBA meeting in Boston, June 2–4 |
| June | Annual dinner; Amy Caldwell, senior editor at Beacon Press |
| April | Magazine Writing 101 |
| February | Pictures, words, and worlds of graphic novels |
| December | Holiday Tea, with Massachusetts Book Award recipients: Lisa Ketchum, Gary Braver, Gail Mazur |
| October | Collaboration with Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, tours and reception to launch new edition of the BWHT guidebook |
2005/06 |
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| June | Annual dinner, speaker: Gail Caldwell, chief book critic for the Boston Globe |
| May | Tour of the Boston Athenaeum |
| April | Sunday salon with Robin Abrahams, author of the “Miss Conduct” column for the Boston Globe Magazine |
| March | WNBA Writers Read, with Jonatha Ceely, Amy Butler Greenfield, Edith Pearlman, and Clea Simon |
| February | The Making of An Anthology, contributors to Why I’m Still Married |
| December | Holiday Tea, featuring Maureen Corrigan, NPR book critic |
| November | Sunday salon with Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters |
| October | Tour of the Words of Thunder exhibit at the Boston Public Library with Marion Kilson |
| September | B.Y.O.B. Bring your outstanding book - discussion of members’ favorite books |
2004/05 |
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| June | Annual dinner with Jeanne Ray, author |
| April | Tour of the Boston Ink exhibit at the Boston Public Library |
| April | Sisters in crime with Hallie Ephron, Lynn Heitman, and Nancy Means Wright |
| January | Writing about ancestors famous and infamous |
| December | Holiday Tea with Sean Halpert from the Museum of Fine Arts bookstore |
| November | Research tips for writers and other information hounds |
| September | Celebration of Boston Chapter’s 50th anniversary |
Newsletter Archive
To read more about past events and other chapter news, click on these issues of the Boston Chapter Newsletter.