A marathon of writers from the International Women’s Writing Guild will read from the anthology Write Forward: A Constellation of Voices and their own work! IWWG published this anthology in 2025 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995. Readers include: Usha Akella, Evelyn Asher, Susan Chute, Joanne Dunham, Dorothy Randall Gray, Kellie Kirksey, Leslie Neustadt, Mary K. O’Melveny, Judith Prest, Jawahara Saidullah, Linda Leedy Schneider, Cathy Thwang, and Pramila Venkateswaran.

Open Mic! Refreshments! Conviviality! Community! Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 7:00 p.m. In person at ELTING MEMORIAL LIBRARY New Paltz, NY (Zoom: Register at https://cutt.ly/NYW-Mar-2026.)