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Bigger Boat Visiting Writers' Series at 4Cs, Barnstable, MA (2024)

04/14/2024

Chris L. Terry was the first-ever Bigger Boat author, way back in October 2020. We're psyched to have him back to talk about his new anthology "Black Punk Now" -- but in person this time! Join us on Thursday 4/18.

03/30/2023

Don't forget: MariNaomi tonight at 6:30!

Bigger Boat is back! Join us for our fourteenth event, with MariNaomi! Thursday March 30 at 6:30 pm. Free and in-person in the LaRusso Solarium on the campus of Cape Cod Community College, and streaming using the link below:

https://capecod.zoom.us/j/7366052710

03/20/2023

Bigger Boat is back! Join us for our fourteenth event, with MariNaomi! Thursday March 30 at 6:30 pm. Free and in-person in the LaRusso Solarium on the campus of Cape Cod Community College, and streaming using the link below:

https://capecod.zoom.us/j/7366052710

11/01/2021

For our second reading of the fall semester, Bigger Boat welcomes P**c Tran, author of the memoir "Sigh, Gone." Tuesday 11/9 at 6:30 pm! Preregister for the event using the link below.

https://capecod.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BTSfTueVQcaDTfuCTDKp-A

10/05/2021

We're psyched to kick off Fall 2021's Bigger Boat Visiting Writers' Series by welcoming Katie Lattari on Thursday! Pre-register using the link below.

https://capecod.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-wo9C9U6Qb6YmXWtiZtaQA

09/21/2021

We are so excited to host Katie Lattari, author of the triller Dark Things I Adore! She will join us on Zoom Thursday, Oct. 7 at 6 p.m.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/arts/new-crime-and-mystery-novels.html

03/22/2021

No foolin': Celebrate National Poetry Month with Bigger Boat April 1 at 6:30 pm for a reading by poet Paul Guest! He's is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, Slate, New England Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous other publications. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Preregister here: https://capecod.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpdu6qqTksG9TDrcTJuEd0ONdSGb3Gqfe-

03/08/2021

We're back with our second reading of the spring semester. We welcome Susannah Felts this Thursday at 6:30 pm. Susannah is a fiction writer, teacher, editor, and co-founder/co-director of The Porch, a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been awarded the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Susannah is a contributing writer for Chapter 16, Humanities Tennessee’s site devoted to literary culture, and a columnist for BookPage. Her essays and fiction have appeared in publications such as The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018, Guernica, Catapult, Literary Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Longreads, StorySouth, The Oxford American, and others, and her first novel, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, was published by Featherproof Books. She is currently seeking representation for a second novel.

Pre-register using the link below:
https://capecod.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-qrpzwrGNdy25DWDF1lwnqhzN2Ae1w3

02/05/2021

Bigger Boat is back for 2021! We get the spring semester started with a reading by Ron Austin on Thursday 2/11at 6:30 pm . Ron's book "Avery C**t Is A Snake, A Thief, A Liar," out now on Southeast Missouri State University Press, won the Nilzen Literary Prize For A First Novel. It's a great read! Pre-register for the event below.
https://capecod.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcO2gqD8uHNb80_Lrm6FUHKUjK_CwWBJ_

12/01/2020

Amy Brady is joining us for Bigger Boat, Wednesday, Dec. 2, which is TOMORROW NIGHT! Be sure to register at the link below. This Zoom event is open to the public.

The Bigger Boat Writers' Series at 4Cs welcomes Amy Brady Dec 2, 2020 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Dr. Brady is the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review of Books, deputy publisher of Guernica, and the co-editor of House on Fire, an anthology of personal essays about climate change forthcoming from Catapult. Her writing on art, literature, and the environment has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, the Village Voice, the LA Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. She's won awards from the National Science Foundation and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and is a recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and lives in the New York City area.

Register for this event here: https://capecod.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuugqTwqGdA7xPmOzcJXHFICDJtDP_YU

11/15/2020

The Bigger Boat Writers' Series at 4Cs welcomes Amy Brady Dec 2, 2020 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Dr. Brady is the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review of Books, deputy publisher of Guernica, and the co-editor of House on Fire, an anthology of personal essays about climate change forthcoming from Catapult. Her writing on art, literature, and the environment has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, the Village Voice, the LA Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. She's won awards from the National Science Foundation and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and is a recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and lives in the New York City area.

Register for this event here: https://capecod.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuugqTwqGdA7xPmOzcJXHFICDJtDP_YU

10/21/2020

Thanks to the Main Sheet for covering our reading with Chris L. Terry. Tonight (Wednesday) at 6:30 pm!

Chris L. Terry/Photography courtesy of lithub.com By Mathew Tomlinson Cape Cod Community College recently announced the launch of the “Bigger Boat Visiting Writers Series”, a recurring online event…