Upcoming Events

Summary: For many, the overwhelming process of buying a house is the single most important financial decision they will make in their lifetimes. Akram Kamrani will provide attendees with the fundamentals of buying a home.

Summary: Lisa Alzo, MFA, author, lecturer and Eastern European genealogy specialist, will discuss methods for solving family research mysteries. Registration: $15 members/ $20 non-members. Lunch on your own.

Summary: Yona Harvey is a literary artist and university professor in creative writing who lives and works in Pittsburgh. She appears at Writers LIVE with her extraordinary debut poetry collection, Hemming the Water.

Summary: Jim O’Brien, Pittsburgh’s famous sports author, will discuss significant sports venues and events in the Oakland area, which was once the "playground" of Pittsburgh. Book signing to follow.

Summary: Rosaly DeMaios Roffman taught creative writing and founded a folklore/mythology center at Indian University of Pennsylvania.

Summary: Rina Ferrarelli will read from The Bread We Ate, published by Guernica in 2012, a collection of tales of the tribe, four generations of Italian immigrants, herself included, “scattered/ across states and provinces, /three countries.”