Sinclairville Free Library

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-04-02 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-16 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-21 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-28 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

This group is meeting virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Life Story Writing
2025-04-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is held in person and online. Register to receive online link.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-04-04 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-06-06 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

Meets Virtually December thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November.

This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-04-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry. Open to the public.

Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-04-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Free Class for National Poetry Month

Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free, month-long poetry class in the month of April. April is National Poetry Month. This class will be both in-person at the Sinclairville Free Library and online through video lectures and Zoom-based office hours.

Each day you will be given a new prompt. He will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. His students have published in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, and The Paris Review among other places. The class is completely free to you and you can join in as little or as much as you like.

There will be an opportunity to participate in a poetry reading as the Sinclairville Free Library on Monday, April 28th at 6:00 pm.

We will meet on Mondays at the library from 4-6 pm for feedback and coaching, but you do not need to attend in order to join the class.

To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-04-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-04-25 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

Meets Virtually Dec thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November.

This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Local Author Visit: Walt Pickut
2025-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Walt Pickut, author of The First Counterspy, a book with local connections.
This is a “pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy and counterspy and an American family unwittingly caught in their web.”
Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.
The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat of vengeance against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko, tormented Larry Haas, killed his wife, and subjected his daughter, Kay (the co-author of this book), to decades of nearly fatal harassment.
And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against the backdrop of the home front during World War II.

Poetry Reading
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
To help celebrate National Poetry Month join us for our Poetry Reading. Share your poems or a Poem from Your Pocket.
Participation in Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham is not required.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-04-30 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-06-04 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-06-11 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

This group meets virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Write Circle with CVCS Creative Writing Class (Hybrid)
2025-05-30 08:30 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Poetry Reading
2025-06-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
