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Upcoming Events

Tuesday May 21, 6pm

Honoring Our Own Celebration & Annual Meeting

Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472
www.arsenalarts.org

Join us for a casual gathering honoring members who have published this year or have upcoming publications. This is also the Board's final meeting before the summer hiatus and a chance for members to chime in as we conclude this year's business. No book sales; this is simply an end-of-year celebration and chance for members to talk about what they've been writing. Members may bring 1 guest/prospective member per person. Please rsvp to
FREE--includes light food and drink

Recent Events

Saturday, May 11, 2013 ‐‐ daytime

MEET THE AGENT

Coolidge Corner Library
Brookline, MA, 11 am

Information session with literary agent Lorin Rees
Free and open to the public

Downloadable flyer here

Saturday, May 11, 2013 ‐‐ evening

WNBA Book Club

Discussion of The Unfinished work of Elizabeth D by Nicole Bernier
Washington Square in Brookline, MA, 5 pm

This event is for members only.
For more information, please contact

Saturday April 13, 2013

WNBA/Boston Book Club

Discussion of the novel What Is the What, by Dave Eggers
At a member's home, 5pm
This event is for members only. For more information, please send email to this address

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Luncheon & Conversation with Nichole Bernier
At the Concord home of Co-President Dawn Rennert^*

$23 (includes lunch AND paperback edition of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.)

^*Address and directions will be sent with your confirmation. Home is approximately 1.5 miles from MBTA commuter rail station.

 

Nichole will discuss her life as a writer, her inspiration for the novel, and treat us to a brief reading.
Note: This event is open only to WNBA members and their guests.

 

Saturday, March 9, 2013

WNBA/Boston Book Club

Discussion of the novel The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy
Cambridge, MA, 5 ‐ 7 pm

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Meet & Greet at More Than Words

376 Moody Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, 1 ‐ 2:30 pm
(781) 788-0035

Save the date for a casual get-together at More Than Words in Waltham. Join other WNBA/Boston members for a cup of coffee or tea from the Café, swap book recommendations, and explore the stacks of this unique bookstore/youth program. If you've recently culled your own bookshelves and have books to donate, you're welcome to bring them with you.
The event is free and open to the public, so bring a friend along! You can RSVP via our Facebook event page or by emailing .

 

Download poster here.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

WNBA/Boston Book Club

Inaugural Meeting, to discuss Martha Southgate's novel THE TASTE OF SALT.

Brookline, 5 pm
This event is for members only. For more information, please contact

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Annual Holiday Tea

Behind the Scenes at Best American Short Stories with Heidi Pitlor, Edith Pearlman, and Jennifer Haigh

Fairmont Copley Plaza, 2 pm
138 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA 02116

Saturday, October 27, 2012

WNBA-Boston will have a booth at The Boston Book Festival!

Copley Square, Boston, 10 am – 6 pm

Thursday, October 18, 2012

National Reading Group Month

With memoirist Kate Whouley and novelists David Gillham, Martha Southgate, and Rosie Sultan

6:30 ‐ 8:30 pm
The Library, Hotel 140
140 Clarendon Street, Boston MA 02116

Friday, September 28, 2012

Yankee Book Swap

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Space is limited; please RSVP if possible:
Bring a favorite book (new or gently used; wrapped) to swap with fellow readers.

Grub Street, 162 Boylston St, 5th floor Boston, MA 02116, 6 ‐ 8pm

July 2012

Get involved! The Board will be meeting in July to plan our events for the coming year and would love to hear from you.

details TBD

May 2012

Annual Meeting: Dinner with Author Margot Livesey

Tuesday, May 22, Christina's Restaurant, Newton, 6:30 pm

Tour of Boston the Boston Public Library

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Meet the Agent: Discussion with Caroline Zimmerman

co-sponsored with National Writers Union
Saturday, May 12th, 2012, Coolidge Corner Library, Brookline, 10:30 am

March 2012

Potluck with author Randy Susan Myers

Sunday, March 25, Newton, 2 pm

December 2012

Holiday Tea

December 4, Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel - Boston, 1:30 pm

November 2011

Self Publishing: Speaking from Experience

co-sponsored with National Writers Union

November 19, Coolidge Corner Branch Library, Brookline, 11am–1pm

October 2011

National Reading Group Month Author Panel

October 20, Hotel 140, Boston, 6:30pm

September 2011

Mystery Panel featuring Hank Phillippi Ryan and Hallie Ephron

September 7, Brookline Public Library 6:30pm

June 2011

WNBA National Meeting in NYC

Meet the Agent (Joint event with National Writers Union)