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Open Mic First Fridays at WSPL

Posted 10/29/24

SULLIVAN COUNTY – Open Mic First Fridays will conclude for the year this month at the Western Sullivan Public Library. Join us Friday, November 1st, from 6:15pm to 8:30pm at the Delaware Free …

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SULLIVAN COUNTY – Open Mic First Fridays will conclude for the year this month at the Western Sullivan Public Library. Join us Friday, November 1st, from 6:15pm to 8:30pm at the Delaware Free Branch on 45 Lower Main St. in Callicoon to see an accomplished featured poet and participate in open mic. All performers and poets are welcome! Share a poem, song, story, or other inspiration. Register on the library’s calendar at www.WSPLonline.org.  For additional information, email wsplprograms@rcls.org.  

The evening starts at 6:15pm with open mic sign-up and continues at 7:30 with Jai Chakrabarti, the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf), which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, was the Association of Jewish Libraries Honor Book, was short-listed for the Rabindranath Tagore Prize, and was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (Knopf, Feb 2023). His short fiction has appeared in One Story, Electric Literature, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and awarded a Pushcart Prize and also performed on Selected Shorts by Symphony Space. His nonfiction has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Writer’s Digest, Berfrois, and LitHub. He was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College and is a trained computer scientist. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.

This event is funded with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

To view all of our programs, visit our calendar at www.wsplonline.org, and register if necessary. Email wsplprograms@rcls.org with any questions.

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