Updated Photo Gallery!

Good news - The Women Writers photo gallery is updated!

Pics from the April Survivin' & Thrivin' open mike and our spring 2007 featured performances (HerStories of Pleasure and Pain, Take Back the Night) are now avaialble.

Enjoy! (Just follow the links in the upper righthand corner of the WW blog.)

++Do you have a picture from one of our events? Please contact Melissa if so. MelissaHasbrookATgmail.com

On the Horizon

Deena hits the East Side Poetry open mike Tuesday, July 31,@Magdalena's Tea House, Lansing. Reading starts @ 8pm (sign-up @ 7:30pm) with a $5 cover (includes tea and coffee). She hopes to see you there! This month's host is Franny Howes.

Melissa's visit to the ABC Treehouse in Am'dam was postponed. Putting together her chapbook Blame It on Eve! is keeping her busy in Leuven, Belgium. Stay tuned for its release in September upon her return to the States!

Kudos to the NuPoets Collective for coverage in this week's City Pulse! Check out the article.

We're Back

Yes! The Women Writers blog is back to posting. After recuperating from a slew of performances, here we go again!

#1: In downtown Lansing, Deena Tyler performs at Poetry in the City, which starts at 7pm on Thursday, July 26, from the Michigan Capitol steps.

++The event features The NuPoet Collective, Ed Mabrey (2007 International Slam Poet Champion), Lisa bond Brewer, and Kai Brewer. Plus there's an open mike! Donations are accepted (and encouraged!). Read about last year's kick-off.

#2: On the other side of the pond, Melissa Dey Hasbrook performs at the ABC Treehouse open mike in Amsterdam on Friday, July 27. It's her first reading on the continent!

++While in England, Melissa performed her recently published The Red, White, and Blue at Open Mic Surgery in Hebden Bridge and with Write Out Loud in Wigan.

#3: Lansing's East Side Poetry open mike meets on Tuesday, July 31, at Magdalena's Tea House , where we hope Women Writers will surface! Sign-up 7:30pm; reading 8:00pm; cover $5 includes tea or coffee.

++This month's host Franny Howes visited the Survivin' & Thrivin' open mike more than once, and her poetry is well worth the hearing. Franny also is the current editor of the Allen Neighborhood Center newsletter - check it out!