The Berkshires have been home to some of the country’s foremost authors. Organizations like Inkberry and The Berkshire Writers Room support the continuation of this legacy with resources, events and activities for this important segment of the Berkshire Creative Economy!
Inkberry
Inkberry promotes the literary arts in the Berkshires with events and community partnerships that celebrate writing and reading. We offer writing workshops in our physical home, an office which we share with Northern Berkshire Creative Arts on the second floor of Building 1 in Heritage Park in downtown North Adams. Our Writers’ Resource Library is open at select hours and by appointment. We also offer a year-round reading series, in a variety of venues around northern Berkshire. Our virtual home offers a range of interactive features, including generative writing exercises, areas to post and critique writing, message boards, and a growing collection of reviews of MFA writing programs.
Resource: Community Critique Group
Want feedback on your stories or poems? Looking for an alternative to a class? Share your work with local writers in this welcoming community-based workshop. Members submit their writings and receive feedback on a rotating basis. Feel free to drop in and observe. Open to writers of all levels and styles.
For more information, contact Inkberry by phone at 664-0775 or by e-mail at info@inkberry.org.
Ongoing, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30p
Free
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Berkshire Writers Room Inc.
The Berkshire Writers Room Inc. has been promoting good writing in Berkshire County since 1992. Groups meet monthly in the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children in order to read original work, give and receive constructive feedback, and discuss the craft of writing.
In 2006 The Berkshire Writers Room published The Berkshire Review for the 14th consecutive year and 2007, debuted a new publication Pathways: A Journal of Literature and Art. Meetings are generally held in both Pittsfield and Great Barrington.
Resource: Genre Specific Workshops*
Fiction/ Creative Non-Fiction: First Wednesday of the Month: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Papa Joe’s Ristorante, Pittsfield
Poetry: Second Wednesday: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Wild Sage, Pittsfield
Scriptwriting et al: Second Sunday
Chapters Bookstore, Pittsfield
All-Genre Workshop: The Third Thursday: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Mason Public Library, Great Barrington
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