BRATTLEBORO’S GREEN WRITERS PRESS
at The Brattleboro Literary Festival
COME JOIN US FOR SHORT READINGS, REFRESHMENTS, AND CELEBRATION OF VERMONT PUBLISHING! @118 ELLIOT • BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT
SATURDAY OCTOBER 19th, FROM 4:00-5:00PM • Free & Open to All
The Green Writers Press Reading will include poetry, nonfiction, and fiction from a selection of our award-winning authors. The local publishing company will present a lively and diverse reading experience for the Brattleboro Literary Festival. We will have books and refreshments!.
Green Writers Press, an independent, women-owned, Brattleboro-based publishing company, is dedicated to spreading environmental awareness and social justice by publishing authors who promulgate messages of hope and renewal through place-based writing, racial justice, and environmental activism. The press’ mission is to spread a message of hope and renewal through the words and images we publish. Throughout we adhere to our commitment to preserving and protecting the natural resources of the earth. Green Writers Press has published authors such as Julia Alvarez, Dr. M Jackson, Madeleine Kunin, Congresswoman Becca Balint, Sharyn Skeeter, Ha Kite Chau, and Clarence Major. GWP was part of the Women’s Convention in 2017, was a finalist for AWP’s Publisher of the Year Award, and received The Vermont Literary Inspiration Award in 2019. In June 2023, founder Dede Cummings appeared on “The Innovation Station,” at the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) at the U.S. Department of State. Themission of the press is to spread a message of hope and renewal through the words and images we publish. Throughout we adhere to our commitment to preserving and protecting the natural resources of the earth. To that end, a percentage of our proceeds is donated to environmental activist groups and social justice organizations. Read more at www.greenwriterspress.com.
Authors who will be reading include:
Julia C. Alter holds an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and appears widely in journals including The Southern Humanities Review, The Raleigh Review, The Santa Clara Review, Smartish Pace, Sixth Finch, Palette Poetry and Permafrost, as well as Stained: An Anthology of Writing About Menstruation, and Ecobloomspaces: Poetry at the Intersection of Social Identity and Nature/Environment/Place. Her debut poetry collection, Some Dark Familiar, won the 2023 Sundog Poetry Prize and was published by Green Writers Press in 2024 She lives in Vermont with her son.
Ray Clark has called New Hampshire and Vermont home for most of the fifty years in the subtitle to this collection of poems. For all of those years, he was at The School for International Training where he was a teacher trainer for Peace Corps Programs for Iran, India, Korea, and West Africa, the director of SIT’s intensive English program, Faculty and Chair of SIT’s MATESL Program, and Director of EFL programs in Istanbul and Islamabad. He has also been on the faculty of Marlboro College’s MATSOL Program, and on the faculty of Southern New Hampshire’s MATFL Program in Hanoi, Viet Nam. During most of those years, he was a partner in a local publishing company where he edited and wrote several textbooks on teaching languages. Most recently, in retirement, he has been teaching refugees in the SIT/ECDC New Vermonter Education Program. His poetry collection, Here and There: 50 Years of Poems is being launched at the Brattleboro Literary Festival and published by Green Writers Press.
Chard deNiord is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently One As Other (Green Writers Press, 2024) Westminster West (Tupelo Press, 2024), In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and The Double Truth(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College, and co-founder of The New England College MFA Program. From 2015 to 2019 he served as poet laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.
Jackson Ellis is a writer and editor from Vermont who has also spent time living in Nevada and Montana. His short fiction has appeared in The Vermont Literary Review, Sheepshead Review, Broken Pencil, The Birmingham Arts Journal, East Coast Literary Review, Midwest Literary Magazine, and The Journal of Microliterature. He co-published VerbicideMagazine.com, which he founded as a print periodical in 1999. His debut fiction, Lords of St. Thomas, received the 2017 Howard Frank Mosher First Novel Prize. His second novel, Black Days, is being launched October 22, 2024 with a book tour throughout Vermont.
Brad Fawley started running in 7th grade. He was a small college All-American in Cross-Country and 5000 meters. After earning a Master’s Degree in Oceanography and his law degree from the University of Virginia, Brad practices law as an intellectual property and environmental litigator and has learned the value of storytelling. He has been awarded three U.S. patents for automotive tools. His new book is The Frontrunner. Brad and his wife split their time between Vermont and California and, blessed with good genes and knees, most every morning you can find him either outside running or working on his next book.
Susan Weiss works in the visual arts in various mediums including painting and drawing, photography, graphics, and video. Her work explores the issues of identity and the social landscape of contemporary culture. Her documentary work has explored the lives of military families during a deployment, and the refugee crisis in Lesbos and Berlin. Her long-term project, “Humanity in the Modern World” documents humanitarian and NGO work in other countries. The work for these projects includes photography, written articles, speaking engagements, and interviews. Susan is currently working on several projects that are in various stages of completion: “Kilt Envy” is a personal story of finding possible relatives in a kilt shop in Scotland, “Lia Taylor Chronicles” follows a female bodybuilder to a professional tournament, and “Thimble Spell” is a photographed manga-style novella aimed at the teen readers’ market. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, an MA from Mills College, and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Visual Storytelling – ICP/International Center of Photography, New York City. Susan lives in San Francisco and Vermont. Her photography art book, The Orchard, is published by Green Writers Press in October, 2024.
The Orchard has an essay/introduction by Eve O. Schaub, an internationally published author and humorist. The author of Year of No Sugar (2014) and Year of No Clutter(2017); her third family memoir is Year of No Garbage (April 22 Earth Day, 2023). She has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, USA Today, and The Huffington Post among others. Her essay “Our Year of No Sugar: One Family’s Grand Adventure” for Everyday Healthhas been viewed over a million times. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, and Spanish, and her writing has additionally appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Bustle, The Belladonna Comedy, Vermont Magazine, and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Eve lives with her family in Vermont and enjoys performing experiments on them so she can write about it.
