Writers in grades K–6 are invited to work with high school students from the Skyline Writing Center to create writing gifts for the special people in their lives. We will have several fun writing activities to spark your creativity!

Join David Roth and Rinee Shah for a joke writing workshop in support of their new book LOL 101: A Kid's Guide to Writing Jokes!

Want to write your own jokes? This book shows you how!

Join us for an evening with local authors doing short readings from their four published works.  Have a chat with an author or buy a copy of their book during the event!

Join us for an evening with five local authors doing short readings from their published works.  Have a chat with an author or buy a copy of their book during the event!

We'll kick off the evening with authors from two books published by the library's Fifth Avenue Press publishing imprint: Bring Your Words: A Writers' Community Anthology by Kathryn Orwig and Dali, Dalai by Rick Solomon.

Meet the authors:

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

In this workshop, authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be joined by poet Jeff Kass, who will discuss writing poetry with language, themes, and content that resonate in the modern world.

A novel is a huge project with a lot of components that have to work together. So, the task of revising it can seem overwhelming. In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will take the stress out of revision by breaking the process down into manageable steps.

Novels and memoirs can’t be separated from their setting. Description makes readers feel fully immersed in a story, but it can also slow a story to a standstill. In this workshop, Alex Kourvo and Bethany Neal will show you how to use appropriate settings and vivid descriptions to heighten character, action, and theme.