Writers Read: Ellen Meeropol, Carolyn A. Cushing, Elizabeth MacDuffie

Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work, followed by a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, most recently Sometimes an Island and The Lost Women of Azalea Court, and the guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and member of the WriteAngles Conference planning committee.

Carolyn A. Cushing (she/her) is a Tarot practitioner, seeker of justice, and poet inspired by nature and focused on the places where life and death meet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts 2023 – 2025. Find her on-line at soulpathsanctuary.com/poetry

Elizabeth MacDuffie Elizabeth MacDuffie is founding editor Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, producer of the Meat for Teacast, and co-runner, with her husband, Mark Alan Miller, of Meat for Tea Press. She’s had work published in Silkworm, Thimble, The Hooghly Review, and in the 2025 and 2026 New Generation Beats Anthologies, among other places. She lives and works in Holyoke, MA.

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