Our annual meeting will be held on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 2:00pm at Hawthorne Hotel.

Invite others! Our Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to invite friends and colleagues to join us and see what we are all about.  It helps recruit new members, volunteers, and donors, and let's the community learn more about our mission.  Invite a friend to share in a nosh and the meeting!

Our meeting includes a wonderful luncheon with vegetarian options. Please RSVP for you and your guests, pay online now or send in your check.

Our Guest Speaker - Maureen Stanton

Maureen Stanton is the author of Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019), winner of the Maine Literary Award for memoir, and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin 2012), winner of a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, New England Review, Florida Review, River Teeth, Sport Literate, Crab Orchard Review, The Sun and many others. She’s received an Iowa Review prize, Pushcart Prizes, the American Literary Review nonfiction award, the Thomas J. Hruska award in nonfiction from Passages North, the Penelope Niven Nonfiction Award from Salem College Center for Women Writers, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.