This year’s Summer Writers Workshops at the Old Forge Library workshops will feature a four-session Adult Workshop and a four-session Tweens & Teen Workshop.
The adult sessions will be held on Wednesdays from July 11 to August 1 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The young adult workshops will meet on Wednesdays from July 11 to August 1 from 3 to 5 p.m.
The director of both workshops will be Mary Sanders Shartle, poet and author, who has taught numerous writing workshops for adults, senior citizens and for children and teens.She runs a book group for Elder Hostel’s Road Scholars at Great Camp Sagamore and has also run book groups through the New York Council for the Humanities.
She recently finished her novel “The Hermit: The Truth and Legend of Lily Martindale” about a woman living alone in the Adirondacks, for which she was awarded a 2008 individual artist’s grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.
There is no fee for the workshops, but enrollment is limited.
In collaboration with Adirondack Center for Writing, a special “Open Mic” reading will take place on Wednesday, August 15, at 7 p.m.
Participants from the Writers Workshops will be encouraged to read from their work. The public is also invited to share and read from their work.
To register for the workshops, call the library at (315) 369-6008 by July 10th.
