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May 22, 2025, 7:00 pm - Open Mic, a Free Zoom Event - ALL are welcome to read or listen
- We encourage all members to attend. Bring your friends! Listen to and support these brave presenters. If you are curious about what our open mic nights look like, just join the Zoom and sit back. You can leave your video blank and just be a "fly on the wall." I think I can assure you that you will find it a comfortable, sharing space.
- We welcome authors in all genres to share their published and/or unpublished work. This is also a safe space to try out something new on a supportive crowd.
- Each reader will have five minutes to introduce themselves and read their work. Featured presenters will have 10-12 minutes.
- We encourage you to invite friends and family to attend the event and listen to you read! What is open mic without an appreciative Audience?
- KEEP IN MIND: Performing at an Open Mic event is part of your Writer / Author CV. It is important for agents to know that if you get published, you are also willing to present your work in person to the public. So keep track of when you perform and what you read.
- If you are interested in reading at this event, please reach out to gailinvermont@outlook.com
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Recap of past events:
May 8, 2025 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. (Zoom) LVW Town Meeting
(Free Event) Please join us. This wasa time for Members and friends interested in LVW to discuss the future of the League of Vermont Writers. There were a lot of great ideas proposed for Book Fair attendance, membership recruitment, future LVW events and more.
April 10, 2025 - Book Group
Thursday, April 10, 2025 7:00 p.m. (Zoom Free Event)
Shawn Anderson is currently the host of the LVW BOOK GROUP. It meets in even months of the year. The book for April was Worlds Within Words by Sharon Darrow. If you would like to be added to the coming email list, please send an email the League at lvw@leagueofvermontwriters.org and put “BOOK GROUP” in the subject line. Shawn will get in touch with you!
April 12, 2025 - LVW SPRING EVENT: “The Job of the Author to Help a Book Succeed.”
Bradley Ferland was our panel moderator. He is a radio talk-show host at WDEV-AM-FM in Waterbury. Joining him on the panel will be Stephen Russell Payne, Elizabeth Bluemle, Bill Schubart, and Gerette Buglion.
March 20, 2025 - Open Mic, a Free Zoom Event
It was a lovely evening. Melissa Mears read a wonderful piece about her dogs (a tearjerker we all related to.) Mark Edwin Jenkins was Googling for a Vermont writers' group. He found our website and the notice for open mic and asked to read! He read a non-fiction story about some of his more ‘colorful’ relatives and had us in stitches. Liz Gauffreau read two great pieces of Micro Fiction! Gail Wind read the beginning of a young readers book she is writing called Sheetrock Sherlocks.
February 13, 2025 (Free Zoom Event) Shawn Anderson hosted LVW Book Group, discussing THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEING by Rick Rubin.
January 30, 2025, 7:00 p.m. (Free Zoom Event) LVW sponsored the first Open Mic night of 2025.
We had eight attending, six were presenters including a featured reader.
January 25, 2025 was Our Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker was held on Zoom.
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We discussed electing a New Slate of Officers. A new date for this will be decided by the board.
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We had a guest speaker, Nadia Colburn, author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf
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Title of Session: I Say the Sky: Poetry, Mindfulness, and the Power of Deep Listening
Description of Session: Poetry can be a means of waking up, of insight and orientation. In this workshop, teacher, yogi, meditator, and award-winning poet Nadia Colburn, PhD, RYT 200, led participants in an interactive experience exploring what happens when we bring silence and voice, meditation and poetry together. Sharing from her own experience and poetry, Nadia will read her poems and offer short meditations and writing prompts that will lead participants to access deeper levels of creativity and insight for the new year, times of transition--or any time.
Bio: Nadia Colburn is the author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf, and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publications, including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Spirituality & Health, Lion's Roar, and The Yale Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, is a certified yoga teacher and serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh, and is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for writers.
November 2, 2024 was the LVW Virtual Fall Event - (on Zoom)
Ann Dávila Cardinal presented "The Socially Acceptable Stereotype: Writing the New Seniors"
Ann wrote: "A white-haired couple walks on the beach in pale blue linen. A group of older women sit around a table playing canasta and talking oh so earnestly about life insurance. We’ve all seen these depictions of older generations in the media, but the people in these ads do not look or act anything like me or my friends: we are children of the 60s after all! After having a mind-blowing experience of ageism from an editor in a top five publisher, I have made it my quest to modernize the way older people are depicted. In this presentation we’ll talk about our responsibility as writers to break the “age-old” stereotypes and more accurately reflect the new senior citizens, whether we are of that age ourselves or not."
Ann Dávila Cardinal is a Vermont author with an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her young adult novels include Five Midnights, Category Five, Breakup from Hell, and the upcoming You’ve Awoken Her. She co-wrote a middle grade biography of Latin trap artist Bad Bunny, and her adult novels include The Storyteller’s Death, which won gold in the International Latino Book Awards, and We Need No Wings. Ann is a part-time bookseller in Stowe, lives in Morrisville, and is currently working on a punk rock Miss Marple series. https://anndavilacardinal.com/
The League of Vermont Writers presented TWO EVENTS the last Weekend of July, 2024:
1st: There was a special two hour Masterclass, "Getting Ready, Getting Read, Getting Readers" by NY literary agent Katharine Sands on Thursday night at the Delta Hotel on July 25th.
This class led to the League of Vermont Writers main summer event, Writers Meet Agents, which also happened at the Delta Hotel. This conference was on Saturday, July 27. Six active, well known literary agents mett one-on-one with writers and heared pitches from attendees for books they are hoping to have published.
"Writers Meet Agents" was held at the Delta Hotel
This event was open to all, LVW members and non-members alike. The program included information for those who have book manuscripts ready to be seen, as well as for writers whose books are still in progress.
Agents who were on hand to hear one-on-one pitches :
- Katherine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary
- Sorche Fairbank. Fairbank Literary
- Sheree Bykofsky, Sheree Bykofsky Associates
- Rita Rosenkranz, Rita Rosenkranz Literary
- Amy Thrall Flynn, Aevitas Creative Management
- Also presenting: Writing-and-publishing consultant, Jennifer S. Wilkov, Your Book Is Your Hook!
Writers Meet Agents Page Click Here to Open
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Welcome to the League of Vermont Writers
The League is a friendly and down-to-earth community of writers—both emerging and seasoned—from all around the state and beyond.
Founded in 1929, it is the oldest writing organization in Vermont; membership offers an exciting opportunity to meet and collaborate with others who delight in the written word.
LVW is open to all who make writing a part of their lives. We offer support and encouragement, networking opportunities, craft, and professional development. We cover the nuts and bolts without being genre-specific. You don’t need to be published to join. LVW is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are fully tax-deductible.
LVW's Mission is to: 
- Help writers develop their skills through workshops;
- Increase communication between writers, agents, and publishers;
- Promote an enduring appreciation for the power of the word; and
- Provide venues for writers to gather, network and share their writing.
For Membership Details, Including Discounted Event Rates
- Click Here to go directly to our Membership Page
Our History
For a wonderful slide show of the history of LVW, CLICK HERE (temporarily under repair)
LVW Leadership
LVW is member-driven and guided by a 10-member, all volunteer board of directors which is voted on by the general membership at the annual January meeting.
Five directors serve as officers: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Immediate Past President. The other five serve as at-large directors. View descriptions of these these positions.
The League Board of Directors facilitates decision-making, initiatives, and forward movement that benefit the growth and sustainability of the organization as whole. It holds quarterly meetings, either in-person or via digital means. It conducts business via mail, phone and email correspondence. The board governs the organization’s general activities based on the 2020-01-20 LVW Bylaws Amended and Approved at the Annual Meeting.
At the annual January business meeting, members hear reports from the board of directors and various other committees regarding LVW’s progress towards achieving its mission, the status of the organization's financial situation, and goals for the coming year. The members elect officers and directors; and vote on other business items concerning the general membership.
2024 Annual Meeting Minutes can be found HERE
2024 Annual Meeting Minutes coming soon
