North Country Author Showcase – Kickass Writers Festival

The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) features a line-up of regional authors they know you’ll love in its North Country Author Showcase, as part of its two-day Kickass Writers Festival in Saranac Lake. ACW believes in highlighting the talent of authors who live, write, and work here.

ACW is holding the North Country Author Showcase at the brand new stage inside The Garagery at Grizle T’s (behind 53 Main St., Saranac Lake). Hear readings by:

• Novelist Christine Kandic-Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
• Poet Marilyn McCabe, author of Being Many Seeds and Glass Factory
• Poet Kathleen McCoy, author of Ringing the Changes
• Fiction writer Pedro Ponce, author of Stories After Goya
• Essayist Susannah Q. Pratt, author More or Less
• Writer Christopher Shaw, author of The Crazy Wisdom: Memoir of a Friendship
• Historian Fran Yardley, author of Finding True North

This event is free to attend and will be hosted by author of The Truth and Legend of Lily Martindale, Mary Sanders Shartle. Visiting fiction faculty, Gwen E. Kirby will also join the event to read from her debut collection, The Hilarious and Otherworldly Shit Cassandra Saw.

The Garagery is a newly opened performance space and comedy lounge located behind Grizle T’s bar and restaurant at 53 Main St., Saranac Lake. It can be easily accessed by the Dorsey Street parking lot.