Community Corner
Story Hour for Grownups
February
2014 Story Hour for Grownups at WHPL
The Woods
Hole Public Library announces its next Story Hour for Grownups, which will take
place in the Community Room downstairs on Sunday, February 16, at 3 pm. Doors
will open at 2:30 to give audience members a chance to mingle before the
readings.
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The format
of February’s Story Hour differs from past programs. Rather than asking local
actors to read previously published short stories, often penned by well-known
authors, Story Hour’s coordinator has invited Helen S. Goodwin and Nancy H.
Porter of the Limulus Writers’ Group to share some unpublished work. Their
stories were inspired by recent 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.
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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
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, February 16, downstairs in the Woods Hole Public Library’s
Community Room, are free and open to the public. Doors will open at 2:30.
