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Writers Resist Event in Boston’s South End //
// Where Things Begin to Happen
// Sunday January 15, 2017
#writeourdemocracy

Authors Laura Grattan, Julie Lekstrom Himes, and Margaret Zamos-Monteith are featured readers at the Writers Resist event being held at Boston Sculptors Gallery in Boston’s South End on Sunday January 15, 2017, starting at 2 pm.

The reading, titled WHERE THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN, has been organized in conjunction with artist Claudia Olds Goldie’s solo exhibition SKIN DEEP, and in coordination with more than 90 Writers Resist events taking place concurrently across the nation. The Gallery is located at 486 Harrison Avenue, Boston.

Community partners co-sponsoring the Writers Resist Boston South End event include Pen & Anvil, Clarion magazine, Pusteblume journal of translation, The New England Review of Books, Burn magazine, Ibbetson Street Press, The Battersea Review, spoKe magazine, the feminist literary collective Whisper and the Roar, Červená Barva Press, Oddball magazine, Dire Literary Series, and JP Lime, a hip-hop collective.

Gloria Mindock, publisher at sponsoring partner Červená Barva, is Poet Laureate of Somerville; Executive Director of the Read America Read project; and author most recently of the collection Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016). She explains her reason for supporting Writers Resist South End Boston:

I am proud to speak up in literary protest with others throughout the country in protest for our democracy and for justice. Our freedom of expression is in danger of being silenced. We must protect our rights of having a free press, free religion, and freedom of the right to assemble. The Writers Resist movement will not be quiet. I will not be quiet.

RSVP to attend on Facebook.

Across the country and internationally, nearly a hundred locally-organized Writers Resist events to “reclaim democracy” will be happening on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, 01/15/17, featuring hundreds of prominent literary voices. Sites include New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Austin, Portland, Omaha, Seattle, London, Zurich, and Hong Kong.

Click here to download a press release for this South End Boston Writers Resist event.
Contacts for the media:

Margaret Zamos-Monteith, organizer: zamosme@gmail.com, 347.515.5057
Zachary Bos, co-sponsor: press@penandanvil.com, 617.935.4951
About the featured readers:

Julie Lekstrom Himes’ short fiction has been published in Shenandoah, The Florida Review (Editor's Choice Award 2008), Fourteen Hills (nominated for Best American Mysteries 2011), and elsewhere. MIKHAIL AND MARGARITA is her debut novel. She lives with her family in Marblehead, MA.

Margaret Zamos-Monteith’s writing has appeared in BOMB, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and other places. The recipient of a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she was also a finalist for the Southwest Review’s David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize. She lives in Jamaica Plain, MA with her husband and son.

Laura Grattan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Her book POPULISM’S POWER analyzes populist rhetoric and organizing in popular culture and in historical and contemporary social movements including the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and UndocuQueer organizing.
About Writers Resist

Writers Resist is a national network of writers driven to #WriteOurDemocracy by defending the ideals of a free, just and compassionate democratic society. It was launched after the recent US election by poet Erin Belieu, an alumnus of Boston University’s graduate creative writing program and founder of VIDA: Women In Literary Arts. Belieu hopes that this day of massively coordinated readings and rallies will be “a first step in focusing public attention on the ideals of a free, just and compassionate society.”

The organizers of the South End Boston event share this goal. We believe that in order for us to move forward and heal from the recent Presidential election, we must focus as artists and writers on the ideals of democracy and social justice for all. In support of this mission, we invite you to gather with us in celebration of the importance of literature and the arts to a strong, thriving democracy.

There are several ways anyone can participate in the larger Writers Resist campaign.

  1. Show up! At our South End Boston event, at the concurrent Copley Square event, or elsewhere. Find an event near you >>
  2. Speak out! Conversations about civics and the principles of democracy are crucial. Talk to your friends and family about the future of democracy. Here are tips for having those discussions >>
  3. Sign up! The Writers Resist mailing list will tell you about events and the ways the campaign is working to strengthen democracy. Find the sign-up form on their homepage >>

Connect with Writers Resist via // Facebook or // Twitter. Or email founder Erin Belieu here.
Comnmunity Partners // Sponsoring Organizations

spoKe magazine

JP Lime Productions
Burn magazine
Oddball Magazine
Dire Reader Series
Pusteblume Journal of Translation
New England Review of Books
Cervena Barva Press
Ibbetson Street Press
The Battersea Review
Whisper and the Roar
Clarion magazine