Writers Night Out

The Basement (21 Center St, Northampton, MA 01060)

Photo By Lynne Graves
Entertainment + Nightlife

If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. Susanne Dunlap is the author of nine historical novels for adults and teens. Her young adult historical novel, *The Musician’s Daughter,* was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year. It was also nominated for the Missouri Gateway Readers Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her YA novel In the *Shadow of the Lamp* was an Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award nominee, and her adult historical novel, *Listen to the Wind* was a quarterfinalist for the BookLife prize and a Distinguished Favorite in the NY Big Book Awards.