Story Hour for Grownups

                                      April
2014 Story Hour for Grownups at WHPL

            The Woods
Hole Public Library announces its last Story Hour for Grownups of the season,
which will take place in the Community Room downstairs on Sunday, April 6 at 3
pm. Doors will open at 2:30 to give audience members a chance to mingle before
the readings.

            The format
of April’s Story Hour differs from past programs. Rather than asking local
actors to read previously published short stories, Story Hour’s coordinator has
invited Helen S. Goodwin and Nancy H. Porter of the Limulus Writers’ Group,
based at the Woods Hole Public Library, to share some unpublished work. Their
stories were inspired by workshop word prompts “Fire” and “Pie.” The audience
will be invited to offer constructive feedback following each reading, since the
authors are continuing to refine each piece.

Helen Goodwin began writing
adventure and travel stories after retiring to Falmouth ten years ago. A graduate
of Bennington College and Harvard Graduate School, Helen took a job teaching
mathematics at Dana Hall School once her two sons were in school. After their
graduation, she began traveling, living in Greece and Ecuador, with
shorter stays in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and Indonesia. Her story,
inspired by the word prompt “fire” and entitled “Cooking Katsika in My New
Oven,” is set in Greece.

Nancy Porter is a retired software
engineer who “always had dreams of writing fiction.” After taking several
writing courses, she recently had a short story published on-line. She now
divides her time between her family, grandchildren, and writing a
novel-in-progress. She is also working on a series of short stories set in
small town outside Boston during WWII, each story inspired by a word prompt
from the Limulus writing workshop. “Pie” is one story from this series.

The readings, which will take place
at 3 pm on Sunday, April 6, downstairs in the Woods Hole Public Library’s
Community Room, are free and open to the public. Doors will open at 2:30.