By R.D. Pohl

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesdays at Cabernet, monthly open mic poetry and prose reading series hosted by Sinead Tyrone. Cabernet’s Wine Café , 9 N. Ellicott St., Williamsville.

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 7:30 p.m.: The Screening Room Reading Series hosted by poet Sandy Geary, with a featured reader. The Screening Room Cinema Café, 880 Alberta  Drive, Amherst. $3. 

Thursday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Buffalo Corner Reading Series featuring Edgar Award-winning playwright Gary Earl Ross reading passages from his plays, and novelist and short-story writer Stephen Eoannou reading from his latest book and talking about what inspires him.

This will be a hybrid event: in person, and simulcast via Zoom. Congregation Shir Shalom, 4660 Sheridan Drive in Amherst. Visit shirshalombuffalo.org for more information and the Zoom link to this free event.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Playwright, novelist, short story writer, and essayist Gary Earl Ross is a retired University at Buffalo professor. His other produced plays include Shadows and Mirrors, Sleepwalker, Picture Perfect, The Best Woman, Murder Squared, and The Guns of Christmas. His books include The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, Blackbird Rising, Beneath the Ice, and the Gideon Rimes mysteries Nickel City Blues, Nickel City Crossfire, and Nickel City Storm Warning. Among his honors are the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America, three Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Awards, public radio commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters Association, and assorted fellowships, grants, and residencies for fiction and drama. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Dramatists Guild of America, International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers of Color, and the Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Stephen G. Eoannou is the author of the award-winning short story collection Muscle Cars and the novels After Pearl, Yesteryear, and Rook. He holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and an MA from Miami University. He has been awarded an Honor Certificate from The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Best Short Screenplay Award at the 36th Denver Film Festival. His novel, Yesteryear, was awarded the 2021 International Eyelands Award for Best Historical Novel, The Firebird Book Award for Biographical Fiction, and Shelf Unbound’s Notable Indy Books of 2023. He lives and writes in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, the setting and inspiration for much of his work.