Brenda Connor-Bey has been teaching a very successful HVWC class for students ages 11 - 14 for over a year. At this reading, both Connor-Bey and some of her students will share their work in poetry and prose.
Connor-Bey, the 2002 recipient of the Outstanding Arts Educator award from the Westchester Fund for Women and Girls, has long been active in writer-residency programs throughout the region. She is the recipient of many grants and awards (including four PEN awards) and has had her work published and performed widely. A collection of poetry and fiction, Thoughts of an Everyday Woman: An Unfinished Urban Folktale, was published in 1995 by Blind Beggar Press, and she has recently completed a chapbook, Spirit Seeker. She has almost completed a young adult novel, Adventures in the Land of Purple, and she is working on a novel, The House on Blackwell Lane.
Middle
schoolers: the summer class
is
on Wednesday afternoons, July 7, 14, and 21.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.