The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Aine Greaney
June 12, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Áine’s presentation will focus on writing personal essays–such as those published in
The Boston Globe Magazine, Brevity, The New York Times Modern Love series and other publications.
She will discuss the risks and rewards of writing about our personal experiences, including why and how she wrote and published her just released essay collection (about immigration) 30+ years after her immigration to the USA.
Other topics include how to choose and edit our individual shorter pieces to create a book-length manuscript and how our own or our family immigrant histories inform our identities and attitudes in 21st-century America.
The evening will conclude with a brief reading from Greaney’s fifth book, Green Card & Other Essays.
Aine Greaney is an Irish-born writer who lives on Boston’s North Shore. A former Gloucester resident, she has written five books and published and broadcast many essays, short stories and features in publications such as Creative Nonfiction, The Boston Globe Magazine, Salon and WBUR Cognoscenti.
Her personal essay collection, “Green Card & Other Essays,” has just been released (Wishing Up Press, 2019).