Ongoing & Upcoming Events
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After Life as a Human now available for pre-order — Digital events starting soon!
We're excited to announce the launch of Laura Valeri's After Life as a Human on November 1st! Before then, you can now pre-order the book exclusively via our website. Check out the After Life as a Human page for all the details.
And Valeri will be participating in a variety of events this autumn! You can catch her on Instagram Live with the Georgia Writers Association at 2pm on Friday, October 30th. Tom DeMarchi & Lynne Barrett at the digital Sanibel Island Writers Conference
This year, the Sanibel Island Writers Conference has gone digital, October 24th & 25th. Both Tom DeMarchi & Lynne Barrett are there — you can find out more at the SIWC website.
And if you miss the panels, you can watch them online later!
Past Events
2020
Lynne Barrett at events in Florida
Lynne Barrett read, and What Editors Want was available, at several events this winter and spring.
Barrett gave a workshop on Making Good Time: Story and the Map of Opportunity at Books & Books Coral Gables on February 8th. The workshop looked at how writers use place, movement, territory, obstacles, access, boundary crossing, departures, returns, and other aspects of spatial movement to construct, shape, and give meaning to stories, whether true or invented. Barrett was also at the Coral Spring Arts Festival on Saturday, March 1st, at the Walk of Coral Springs. And Barrett was featured at a digital evening for Making Good Time, hosted by Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair, as part of Independent Bookstore Day on August 29th. The event was featured among others by Buzzfeed News. |
Photo: James Barrett-Morison
More digital events are coming soon!
In-person events may be on hold, but digital events with Rain Chain Press authors are still happening! Stay safe & be healthy from all of us at Rain Chain Press!
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2019
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Awards & events for Tom DeMarchi
The title story from Möbius Strips and Other Stories was chosen as a Best Small Fiction Anthology Selection 2019! Check out the full list of winners from the Sonder Press.
Tom DeMarchi read alongside Shannon Capone Kirk and Hank Phillippi Ryan at Allie's Beach Street Cafe in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts on Sunday, June 30th.
The Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers, Florida, hosted an evening with Tom DeMarchi on May 2nd. Find out more at their website.
Tom DeMarchi read at the Small Press Showcase hosted by Forest Avenue Press and Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, March 29th, in conjunction with the AWP 2019 conference. Check out the Facebook event for more information.
Tom DeMarchi presented at the FGCU Writing Awards presentation in Fort Myers, Florida. He was the honored guest at the Student Writing Awards ceremony on March 20th, and the featured reader at the Samuel Pepys Reading Series on March 21st. Both events took place at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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DeMarchi at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Photo by Lyn Millner |
DeMarchi and other readers at the Small Press Showcase in Portland, Oregon.
Photo by Laura Stanfill |
DeMarchi at Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon.
Photo by Laura Stanfill |
Lynne Barrett with Making Good Time and teaching craft around the country
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Lynne Barrett read and taught at a variety of events around South Florida in autumn 2019, featuring both What Editors Want and her new anthology, Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida. The Making Good Time book release was held at Books & Books in Coral Gables on September 21st.
A reading and panel took place at the Mandel Public Library in West Palm Beach, October 16th, and both Making Good Time and What Editors Want were available. Barrett also read alongside M.J. Fievre at the "Off The Island" Mini-Conference at Florida Gulf Coast University on November 13th. Making Good Time was recently featured as the November cover story in The Biscayne Times. And Barrett was interviewed about Making Good Time on WLRN. |
Lynne Barrett was a part of the To Write Miami series, presented by the Museum of Art & Design, on August 28th. The reading was at Soya & Pomodoro in Downtown Miami. To read more about the To Write Miami series, see this article from Jitney Books. Barrett also instructed the October edition of First Draft: A Literary Social on October 1st at Books & Books @ the Arsht Center, Miami.
Lynne Barrett returned to the International Women's Writing Guild conference at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA on July 12th-19th. See the card at right and the IWWG website for more information.
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Lynne Barrett was at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference in Boston from April 5th-7th. Grub Street has been named North America's #1 Writing Conference by The Writer magazine. Find out more at the Muse and the Marketplace website.
Barrett lead a workshop on the revision process at the Writers Craft Conference of the Florida Keys, held at the Marathon Community Theater in Marathon, FL on April 13th. The workshop "offered strategies for identifying revision habits that can limit you... and how to use your time well in finding your way along the path to a complete and satisfying story." Check out the Writers Craft Conference site for more.
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Lynne Barrett was at the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers' Fairhope, AL conference on March 22nd-23rd. She was on a panel on What Editors Want, the inside scoop on literary magazines, anthologies and more, and a panel on making your readings as good as your writing. Find out more at the GCACWT Fairhope conference website.
Rain Chain Press authors at Miami Book Fair 2019
Two of our authors, Lynne Barrett and Tom DeMarchi, appeared at the Miami Book Fair 2019 at Miami Dade College, both on Sunday, November 24th. Barrett emceed a panel on Making Good Time in room 8302, and DeMarchi read from Möbius Strips and Other Stories in room 8303, alongside Jim Ray Daniels.
Weslea Sidon in Northeast Harbor
Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, read alongside Christian Barter, Ralph Stephens, and Elizabeth Tibbetts at the Northeast Harbor Library in Northeast Harbor, ME on July 3rd. See the Mount Desert Islander coverage for more information.
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Weslea Sidon reads in Northeast Harbor.
Photo by Bob Morison |
2018
Lynne Barrett in Sanibel, Allentown, Boston
Lynne Barrett taught about plot and structure, and was also on the Editors and Agents panel, at the FGCU Sanibel Island Writer's Conference on Sanibel Island, Florida, November 8-11.
Lynne Barrett taught at the International Women's Writing Guild annual conference at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, July 6-13. She presented a generative fiction workshop: "Spinning Straw into Gold: Exploring Fiction’s Many Forms."
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Barrett also presented at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference in Boston from April 6th-8th, 2018, including two sessions on Productive Revision, or How to Stop Perfecting Paragraphs and Strengthen Your Story. Find out more at the Muse and the Marketplace website.
The Fool Sings for Women's History Month
Two of Weslea Sidon's poems from The Fool Sings were featured in the Women's History Month art show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. The exhibition of art inspired by the writings of Maine women authors was open to the public at the library in Southwest Harbor, Maine, from March 5th-April 27th. See this article in the Mount Desert Islander for more.
Sidon also hosted a poetry jam at Coda Restaurant in Southwest Harbor on Thursday, March 15th. And the Red Headed Book Lover recently reviewed The Fool Sings — click here to read the review. |
The Fool Sings by Weslea Sidon
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2017
Lynne Barrett at International Women's Writing Guild & Muse and the Marketplace
Lynne Barrett taught, and What Editors Want was available, at the International Women's Writing Guild summer conference in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from July 7th-14th.
Lynne Barrett taught at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference, which ran May 5th-7th, 2017, in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to her presentations, she was part of a panel on "Spitballing," using brainstorming techniques to push initial story ideas into wilder and more provocative possibilities. The event was free and open to the public.
What Editors Want Workshop in Palm Springs
Saturday, April 22nd, from 10 AM to noon, Lynne Barrett gave a free writing workshop at the Palm Springs Public Library in Palm Springs, Florida. The workshop was for anyone who wishes to see their work published in magazines, and What Editors Want was available. |
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2016
Noir at the Bar at Miami Book Fair
Lynne Barrett was a reader at the Noir at the Bar event as part of Miami Book Fair, 8 PM November 7th at the Porch. For more information, visit Lynne Barrett's website and the Miami Book Fair website. Lynne Barrett at Sanibel Island Writers Conference
Lynne Barrett appeared at the 2016 FGCU Sanibel Island Writers Conference November 3rd-6th, on Sanibel Island, Florida. She was on an Editors & Agents panel in addition to other presentations. What Editors Want will be available at the conference.
What Editors Want Out July 2016
Lynne Barrett's What Editors Want: A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines was released July 15th! See the What Editors Want page for more information. |
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2015
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Weslea Sidon Reads at Northeast Harbor Library
July 8 — Weslea Sidon read from The Fool Sings alongside fellow poets Christian Barter, Bob Quinn, and Paul Weiss at the Northeast Harbor Library at 5:30 PM. Sidon's Poem in the Portland Press Herald
Wesley Sidon's poem "Closure", from The Fool Sings, was featured April 26 in the "Take Heart" column of the Portland Press Herald. Read the poem here. |
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2014
Weslea Sidon Reads at Jesup Memorial Library
October 23 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, read at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine.
October 23 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, read at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Photo: Rain Chain Press
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Photo: Rain Chain Press
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Weslea Sidon Reads at Bass Harbor Memorial Library
July 25 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, and Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies, read from their poetry and fiction at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library in Bernard, Maine. 
Photo: James Barrett-Morison
Weslea Sidon and Lynne Barrett
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Photo: Robert Morison
Islands Writers Workshop with Weslea Sidon and Lynne Barrett
July 25 — Weslea Sidon, author of The Fool Sings, and Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies, taught a writers' workshop on Mount Desert Island at the Bass Harbor Memorial Library in Bernard, Maine. Using the overall theme of "Islands," the workshop drew upon topics including history, memory, myth, nature, community, isolation, boundaries and journeys. |
Photo: Lynne Barrett
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The Fool Sings Launch at Southwest Harbor Public Library
July 2 — Weslea Sidon launched The Fool Sings, her new book of poetry, at the Southwest Harbor Public Library in Southwest Harbor, Maine. It was a smash hit! The room was packed, and the reading excellent.
See more photos from the event below. 
Photo: James Barrett-Morison
Part of the crowd at the library
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