Participants are asked to attend all 5 sessions. There is also an Open Mic Night in August for writers to share their work!
Star Livingstone will lead the Old Forge Library’s 2024 Summer Writers Workshop. The 5-session workshop will take place on Wednesdays, July 3 through July 31 at 5:45 pm. Enrollment is limited to 15 participants.
This 42 year tradition is a summer favorite. The workshop welcomes all levels of writing experience and all genres. The workshop title is "Playing with Words", in keeping with the Old Forge Library's summer themes of lightness and fun. Registrants are requested to come to the first meeting bringing a brief sample of a favorite piece of writing by any author.
Star Livingstone, writer, naturalist, and educator has enjoyed an eclectic career sharing the challenge and mystery of language through teaching, tutoring, editing, leading writing groups, and creating poetry workshops for both adults and children. She has directed the West Falmouth library summer science school, the Easton Day Camp in Massachusetts, and shared her tree stories with the combined Falmouth schools' Arbor Day assembly. Star has long been involved with the Old Forge Library Poetry Contest both as a poetry judge and as the leader, for several years, of the pre-contest adult workshop.
Star finds inspiration from both the natural world and human nature and, personally, finds poetry the most useful way to express the experience of being.
She is the author of Harley, an early reader book and true story. She practices the principles of permaculture and poetry on a two-acre homestead in Woodgate, New York.
Weekly workshops will culminate in a public open mic where participants and others can share polished work. The Open Mic Night is scheduled for Wednesday August 7 at 6 pm. The public is invited to come and listen to our local writers. Registrants are asked to attend all sessions. Please call the library at 315 369-6008 or e-mail oldforge@midyork.org to register.
To locate the Library proceed north on Route 28 until you reach the five-way intersection in the center of the village. Then turn left onto Crosby Blvd. and travel one-half block. The Library, a Tudor-style building, is located on the right. Parking is in the rear.
