Virtual It's About Time Writers' Reading Series, Meeting 387

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

This month’s online presentation welcomes Ann Batchelor Hursey, G.G. Silverman, and Judith van Praag.Ann Batchelor Hursey's poems have appeared on Seattle buses, in the Seattle Review, Raven Chronicles, and Crab Creek Review, among others. Besides collaborating with a variety of artists, she has written poems to compost, community gardens and fair trade. Her chapbook, A Certain Hold, was published by Finishing Line Press, 2014. Soon to be released is her hybrid collection "FIELD NOTES" to Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Landscapes, Salmonberry Press, 2021. Hursey holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing WorkshopG.G. Silverman is an author of speculative and literary short fiction and poetry who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology Not All Monsters from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors. Her work has also appeared in Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. Her short story, “I’m sorry, I tried, I love you,” was optioned by writer/director Goldie Jones for short film adaptation, which completed production in November of 2021 and is now under consideration at several film festivals.Writer/artist/performer Judith van Praag is a Second Generation Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands. She enjoys painting pictures with words and colors. Before her immigration to the US in 1994, Judith worked as a theater designer for primarily immigrant theater. As Arts and Lit writer to The International Examiner she covered the Asian American community in Seattle. Judith is the author of Creative Acts of Healing: After a Baby Dies (Paseo Press 1999). After a hiatus she has returned to her works-in-process and hopes to finish another book before too long.