7th Annual Juniper Festival
Please join us for the seventh annual Juniper Festival, Strange Courage: First Books, a community-wide celebration of emerging authors. Over the course of two days, 23 poets and writers of first books will deliver readings and discuss the contemporary literary landscape in venues ranging from Memorial Hall to Amherst Books, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center, and the Emily Dickinson Homestead.
Friday, April 27
7:30 pm, Memorial Hall: Poetry & Fiction Reading with Timothy Donnelly, alum Paul Fattaruso, Merril Feitell, alum Elizabeth Hughey, Ander Monson, Anna Moschovakis, Rachel Sherman, Tony Tost
Saturday, April 28
12:30 pm, Amherst Cinema Arts Center: Poetry & Fiction Reading with alum Noria Jablonski, alum Christopher Janke, Tao Lin, Amanda Nadelberg, Allan Peterson, Dwight Yates
2:15 pm, Roundtables
Weird War: The Politics of Whimsy at the Dickinson Homestead
Publishing a First Book: the Basics & Beyond at Amherst Books
3:30 pm, Roundtables
The Internet & New Literary Criticism at the Dickinson Homestead
Chapbook Reading & Discussion at Amherst Books
4:30 pm Author Reception & Book-signing at Amherst Books
7:30 pm, Memorial Hall: Poetry & Fiction Reading with Lucy Corin, Alan DeNiro, Julia Johnson, Sabrina Orah Mark, Eugene Oshtashevsky, Imad Rahman, Michael Robins, alum Shauna Seliy