Name: Water Street Writers Reading Series
Start: 2025-09-21T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Water Street Studios

Join us Sunday, September 21st, for our first Water Street Writers event of the season!
Featuring the talents of Heather Lynn, Donna Latham, Cathy Borders, and Sandra Marchetti!
Open Mic after the program too!
Doors open at 5pm, show starts at 5:30pm at the gorgeous Water Street Studios in Batavia.
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Heather Lynn
Heather Lynn is an interdisciplinary artist who combines writing, dance, visual art, myth, and ritual. She has written and directed the musical Templehead and the play Genesis & Nemesis. She has been self publishing her writing for over 30 years, most recently “Divine Hustle” in 2023 and “Love Letters for Nesting Dolls” in 2024.

Donna Latham
Playwright, author, and history geek Donna Latham’s over the moon to be back at Water Street Writers. Her plays have been produced coast to coast and around the world. AND WE WILL SHARE THE SKY received the Kennedy Center Mark David Cohen Playwriting Award, and ALL THE WAY BACK received the Prize for Climate Justice. Donna grew up in a haunted house in the wilds of Chicagoland and has been obsessed with spooky stuff forever. She’s a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Cathy Borders
Cathy Borders is the author of The Tarot for Writing Project and A Suburb of Monogamy. Her latest, Robin Williams Is My Uncle: And Other Stories We Possess, is a work of autotheory about alienation, the uncanny, and epigenetics told through the lens of Robin Williams’s children’s movies, fairy tales, feminism, and the death of her beloved cat. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School in New York and a Bachelor’s degree in English literature and critical theory from the University of Iowa. Cathy is a book midwife, story therapist, and also the founder of The Republic of Letters and Water Street Writers. You can find out more at CathyBorders.com.

Sandra Marchetti
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, DIORAMA, from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2025), Aisle 228 (SFA Press, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry and essays appear widely in Mid-American Review, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland. You can find out more at: https://sandramarchetti.net/
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Everyone is welcome! Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds pay our authors, so let’s give them a good night! So please like and share and all that jazz.
In addition to fine literary entertainment, you may purchase signed copies of our authors’ books. Refreshments will be available from Water Street Studios’s bar.
Water Street Studios has graciously donated their gallery to us, all that they ask is that we respect the art and their space. In return, as they are a nonprofit, we ask you to consider becoming members to support their unique programming. (Which includes some writing classes this go round!)
This event is emceed by Eric Bodwell. Susan Ward Trestrail Photography will document the evening, while Kevin Moriarity will record the show for our archives and your enjoyment.
Experience Water Street Writers four precious Sundays a year in the fully accessible main art gallery at Water Street Studios. For more information, contact Cathy Borders here or at [email protected].
To learn more, including submission guidelines, please visit our website: https://waterstreetwriters.com
Submit to become a featured reader at [email protected].
Submissions are always open. We pick from the slush pile each and every event. Multiple submissions are okay. Our next upcoming events will be on November 2nd, February 1st, and then April 19th. When you submit, if you can't make one of those dates, please let us know.