Sinclairville Free Library

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-11-12 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-03 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to aspiring and accomplished writers.
Group meets virtually. Meeting link will be provided after registration.
Registration is Open.

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Poetry Class & Workshop
Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free poetry class and workshop.
Brantingham will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. 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.

Poetry reading following the class: Poetry Reading with Poets, T Anders Carson and Kendall Johnson

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

Poetry Reading with Poets, T. Anders Carson & Kendall Johnson
2025-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
Featured Poets: T Anders Carson & Kendall Johnson
T. Anders Carson has had poems published in 37 countries including translations into French, Greek, Japanese and Swedish. Carson has written 4 books of poetry and is a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow. Carson is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has read his work from Los Angeles to London including stops in Cairo, Paris, Stockholm and Swansea. Carson currently resides on the outskirts of a rural village in Ontario, Canada.

Kendall Johnson, former firefighter with military experience, served as traumatic stress consultant specializing in Incident Command System Class I & II commands. Dr. Johnson has lectured in fire houses, hospitals, emergency service institutes, conferences, government training facilities, universities, here and abroad. Dr. Johnson was Adjunct Faculty member at the California State Training Institute (Governor’s Office of Emergency Services), served on the Faculty of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and was Associate Professor in the Master’s Degree program in Emergency Services Management at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Johnson has authored a number of professional papers, seven books in the treatment of traumatic stress, school crisis management, and recovery. Recently Dr. Johnson retired from teaching to pursue painting, photography, and writing. In that capacity he has written five literary books of artwork and poetry, and one in art history.

Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
Featured poets will be joining via Zoom.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-11-14 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-11-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provided 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 (Hybrid)
2025-12-04 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.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-12-05 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-06 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.
Open to the public.

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-12-11 16:00 - 18:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Poetry Class & Workshop
Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free poetry class and workshop.
Brantingham will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. 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.

Poetry reading following the class: Poetry Reading with Poet John Wheway

To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

Poetry Reading with Poet John Wheway
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
Featured Poet: John Wheway

Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
Featured poets will be joining via Zoom.
To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

Write Circle (Virtual)
2026-01-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-30 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-02-06 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-02-13 09:00 - 10:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Write Spirit
2026-01-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-21 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-28 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-02-04 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-02-11 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
