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A day of community, inspiration, and motivation took place at this year’s Islanders Write festival at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Founded in 2014 and sponsored by The Martha’s Vineyard Times and their M.V. Arts & Ideas magazine, the festival features authors, speakers, industry professionals, and workshop facilitators, all of whom have a personal connection […]
Opening night of Islanders Write, held at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs, delved into issues that have been top of mind for writers nationwide: fair compensation, the complications of artificial intelligence, and how to cover the Trump presidency and campaign. Started in 2014, The Times and the MV Arts & Ideas Magazine […]
This two-day event, August 20, at 6:30 pm, and Monday, August 21, from 8:15 am to 4 pm, takes place at Featherstone Center for the Arts, and is free and open to the public. Panel discussions and writing workshops are led by writers with ties to the Vineyard. Highlights of the event include hearing from […]
Bookshelf bulge and inspiration. These are both things that I suspect are happening to many of us on the Vineyard this summer. This past weekend alone, large crowds turned out to hear almost 30 authors talk about their new books at the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival. There were additional author talks at the Oak Bluffs […]
Publisher’s Weekly, the trade magazine about the publishing industry, has a weekly column called “Book Deals.” Six books that had recently been acquired for publication were mentioned in this week’s column. Each of the books had a short — one or maybe two sentences — synopsis, an author’s bio that was culled down to bullet […]