Illuminated Words

Illuminated Words is a community of writers that meets at the historic Carson McCullers House of Nyack for regular writing circles, which include generative writing prompts and time to share with a warm and supportive community. Facilitated by Anupama Amaran, MFA, and Lily Greenberg, MFA. No experience needed, all levels welcome. Admission is $10.
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LILY GREENBERG is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Eco Theo, On the Seawall, Cortland Review, and The Shore, among others, and she is the 2023 prize winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s National Poetry Month Contest as well as the 2021 recipient of the Dick Shea Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has been funded by Bread Loaf Writers, University of New Hampshire, and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and she holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. She serves as Poetry Editor for Longleaf Review and Advisory Committee Member of Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press. She lives in Nyack, New York. More about her at lily-greenberg.com https://lily-greenberg.com/ .
A. ANUPAMA is a Tamil-American poet, visual artist and translator whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook Saffron Threaded is available from Dancing Girl Press. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and Northwestern University, her recent honors include Pushcart Prize nominations and a fellowship at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. Anupama lives with her family in Upper Nyack, New York. More about her at aanupama.com https://aanupama.com/ .
Carson McCuller House https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.085987%2C%20-73.919235
131 S Broadway · Nyack, NY