Osher Literary Night

You are cordially invited to join Osher at Dartmouth members and study leaders as they share their passion for the written word. Their writing encompasses both the personal and the professional: lifetimes of rich and diverse experience. We hope you can join us in this, our eighth Literary Evening. - Pam Ahlen, event organizer Presenters: Susan Apel - creative non-fiction, vignette Toby Speed - poetry Elayne Clift - short stories Joan Jaffe - travel Suzanne Nothnagle - poetry Bonnie Fladung - nature travel, adventure Susan Apel - creative non-fiction, vignette On Not Teaching in the Fall, Metamorphosis (a work in progress) Susan B. Apel?s personal essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Best of Vine Leaves 2015, the cultural journal, Rhizomes, Siren Literary Magazine, The Woven Tale Press, Image Magazine, Dartmouth Medicine, InTravel and ShriverReport.org. Her latest work, On Not teaching in the Fall, recently appeared in the autumn issue of The Vignette Review. She is a professor of law at Vermont Law School and has served on the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. She is a regular contributor to the dailyUV.com, where she writes for her blog, ArtfulEdge. Toby Speed - poetry Toby Speed is the author of seven picture books for children, including Two Cool Cows and Brave Potatoes. She has also written a murder mystery for adults, and her poems appear in Light, Lighten Up Online, The Rotary Dial, Boulevard, the 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly, and Highlights for Children. Elayne Clift - short stories Children of the Chalet Elayne Clift, a Vermont Humanities Council Scholar, is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications internationally. She is a columnist for the Keene Sentinel and the Brattleboro Commons, a book reviewer for The New York Journal of Books, and a contributor to Womens Media Center and Vermont Woman. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her novel, Hester?s Daughters appeared in 2012 and her 3rd book of short stories, Children of the Chalet, First Place for Fiction winner in 2014 from Greyden Press, was published in 2015. Joan Jaffe - travel Mull, an Island in the Hebrides in Scotland Joan Jaffe lives in Norwich and writes now and then about this and that. She has been published here and there and for years had her own column in the Valley News. Suzanne Nothnagle - poetry Suzanne Nothnagle has taught writing and literature for Granite State College and local high schools. In addition to literary works, Susan ran a small precision tool company for 27 years. She has written an oral history of the machine tool industries in Windsor and Springfield, VT. She holds a BA from Marlboro College and a MALS from Dartmouth College. Her latest book is Ruins: Poems and Paintings of Vanishing America. Bonnie Fladung - nature travel, adventure When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer Bonnie J. Fladung specializes in nonfiction and adventure travel writing. When Eagles Roar is a 2016 National Geographic Book Recommendation, named one of ?The Best Nature Books of 2014? by The Guardian, and ?Book of the Year? by The Birder?s Library. Bonnie recently spent time in Morocco studying the art of storytelling with the master storytellers. Bonnie is a former high tech marketing executive.