Event categories: Friends' Programs

Poetry Contest for All Ages

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

THEME: Listening

Submissions due: Wednesday, March 28, 2018

How to enter: Please include your name, address, phone number, age, and e-mail. Students: please include school and grade. E-mail to FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com with your work.     

For full contest guidelines, download the flier.                        

Awards Ceremony: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Award categories include grades K–8, high school, adults, and seniors.

Questions? E-mail FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com

Contest Sponsored by the Friends of the West Roxbury Branch Library

Emily Sweeney: Gangland

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: 1961 Centre St., West Roxbury
Friends' Programs

Monday, March 5 at 6;30 PM
Gangsters have played a shady role in shaping Greater Boston’s history. Authored by Boston Globe reporter Emily Sweeney and packed with photos, Gangland Boston reveals the hidden history of these places, bringing readers back in time to when the North End was wrought with gun violence, Hanover Street was known as a “shooting gallery,” and guys named King Solomon, Beano Breen, and Mickey the Wiseguy ruled the underworld. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Poetry Workshop with Mary Pinard

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

Free and open to all. Space is limited, so register today!

Discover inspiration in everyday things, memories of the past and hopes for the future. Learn and apply some important tools for poets: vivid words, rhythmic sounds, lists and traditional forms.

Register by email: Send your name, phone number and/or email address, and session number to: FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com OR register at the front desk of the library.

 

Workshops: Saturday, January 27, 2018

Session 1: 10-11:30 AM (grades 2-8)

Session  2: 1-3 PM (High School and adults)

Poetry Reading: Saturday, February 3, 2018: 1-3 PM

Workshop participants are invited to share their poems with fellow poets.

Katie Bayerl: The 2017 Lois Lowry Fellowship Winner

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

Thursday, January 18

Katie Bayerl, author of A Psalm for Lost Girls, is the second Lois Lowry Fellowship recipient. She coaches teens and nonprofits to tell stories and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently leads the VCFA Young Writers Network and teaches classes for teens at GrubStreet. A Psalm for Lost Girls (spring 2017, Putnam) is her first novel.

Teen writing workshop: 1/18/18 at 5:30 PM (pizza provided)
Author talk: 1/18/18 at 6:30 PM

The 2017 Holiday Book Stroll

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: West Roxbury Branch Library
Friends' Programs

They sign. You sip. Holiday shopping: Done.

The Friends’ annual Holiday Book Stroll features authors who will sign copies of their books (books will be available for purchase on-site!). Great for holiday shopping and a wonderful opportunity to get to know local authors, too! The 2017 event will feature these authors:

Ben Mezrich
Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman
Hallie Ephron
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Jane Healey
Jay Hajj
Peter Zheutlin
Upton Bell and Ron Borges

Children’s/YA Used Book Sale

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

October 21, from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Kids out of books? Have no fear! The book sale is here. Books for all (young) ages at great prices. Free entertainment at 11:30 from Tony Toledo!

Friends 2017 Annual Meeting

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

October 19: Reception at 5:30 PM and author presentation at 6:30 PM.

Ben Mezrich, author of Wooly. Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth—by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel. This wild and wondrous tale intertwines the looming threat of global warming, miraculous new advances in science and technology, heroic fossil hunters who battle polar bears and extreme conditions, and the brave new world that arrives with mankind’s newfound ability to control the genetic code of every living creature.

Annual Ice Cream Social

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

To Launch the Summer Reading Program
2017 Theme: Summer in the City

Thursday, June 22, at 4 pm
On the lawn next to the library

Entertainment!

Annual Used Book Sale

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

Great used books for all ages!

Members-only Reception and Sale
Mon., June 5, 6–8 pm

Sale hours open to all
Tues., June 6: 10 am–6 pm
Wed., June 7: 10 am–6 pm
Thurs., June 8: 12–8 pm
Fri., June 9: 9 am–5 pm
Sat., June 10: 9 am–1 pm

28th Annual Poetry Contest for All Ages

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Friends' Programs

2017 Theme: Alone/Together

Submissions due by Thursday, March 27

Submit poems one of three ways; click here for details

Be sure to include your:
name, address, phone, age, and e-mail;
students be sure to give your home address (not school) and grade