Name: Writers Night Out in January with Corinne Demas
Start: 2026-01-06T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Forbes Library

Writers Night Out in January with Corinne Demas

oin Straw Dog Writers Guild on Tuesday January 6th, 6:00-8:00pm for Writers Night Out with featured writer Corinne Demas, at Forbes Library. No registration required. If you want to participate in Open Mic and read, please sign up by 5:50pm. Ten names will be randomly selected. Each reader will have five minutes. The second half of the evening showcases our Featured Reader.
Hosted by Jacqueline Sheehan, Rick Paar and Beth Filson.
Corinne Demas is the author of 39 books including two collections of short stories, seven novels, a memoir, a collection of poetry, two plays, and numerous books for children. She is a professor emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College and a fiction editor of the Massachusetts Review.
She grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her memoir, Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968. She attended Hunter College High School, graduated from Tufts University, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She lived in Pittsburgh for a number of years, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham College.
She divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
https://www.corinnedemas.com/bio.html