Category: Events | Maine Women Writers Collection

20 Years of The Gathering of Writers

September 4, 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Portland Campus

The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Gathering of Writers, a weekly creative writing workshop series, on September 4 at 6 p.m. in the Abplanalp Library on the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. The event is free and open to the public. Since [...]

Archives Month!

Archives Month Fun

October 31, 2024

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Ketchum Library

Did you know that October is American Archives Month? Stop by Ketchum Library for snacks and fun archives-themed activities! Thursday, October 31, 202411 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come meet your friendly UNE archivists!

Donna M. Loring Lecture

A Salute to Cpt. Joanne Murphy and the Women Who Served in Vietnam

October 1, 2024

12:00 pm

Bush Center Boardroom, UNE Biddeford Campus

A Salute to Cpt. Joanne Murphy and the Women Who Served in Vietnam Tuesday, October 1 at 12 p.m. In person and online:Bush Center Boardroom, UNE Biddeford CampusDirections and Campus MapLivestreamed on une.edu/live Captain Joanne P. Murphy was Donna Loring’s Commanding Officer while they served together in the combat zone at Long Binh during the Vietnam War, and Murphy’s bequest has [...]

Inspiration in the Archives

Inspiration in the Archives: A Conversation about Poetry

May 8, 2024

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Maine Women Writers Collection

With poet and teacher Beth Alison Jones, & poet and archivist Jefferson Navicky Facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Tuttle, Director of the Maine Women Writers CollectionFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FMI, please contact MWWC Curator Sarah Baker Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC). Beth [...]

Archival Portraits 2023

Archival Portraits

October 31, 2023

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Ketchum Library, Biddeford

October is Archives Month! To celebrate and raise awareness about UNE's Special Collections and archives, come join us for this year's Archival Portraits event! Just like last year, UNE Special Collections wants to take your picture! But we want to capture the contents of your bag or pockets. Just like every face is different, every pocket [...]

Back Then and Now: Pettengill Farm in History and Art

November 5, 2023

3:00 pm

Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport, ME

Please join us for a community discussion with artists Rebecca Goodale and Carrie Scanga as they talk about their collaborative artists’ book, “Back Then And Now,” which imagines Freeport’s Pettengill Farm. A representative of the Freeport Historical Society will also be on hand to speak about the 19th century salt-water farm. Audience participation encouraged. Sponsored by the Maine Women [...]

Archival Portraits 2023

Archival Portraits

October 18, 2023

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Abplanalp Library, Portland

The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems: A Reading by Beatrix Gates

October 18, 2023

6:00 pm

Longfellow Books, Portland, ME

Free and open to the public. Join us for a reading from The Burning Key, New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) (Thera Books 2023) by Beatrix Gates, award-winning poet, book artist, and lesbian feminist publisher. Gates, founder of Granite Press (Penobscot, Maine, 1975-1989) and hopalong press (Monterey, Massachusetts, 1973-1975) will be in conversation with Jennifer Tuttle, director of the Maine [...]

Donna Loring Lecture

Reading by Morgan Talty

October 5, 2023

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford

This year's Donna Loring Lecture will be a reading by Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez October 5, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford CampusFree and open to the public; refreshments providedFree books available for UNE students with student ID (while supplies last)Event will be recorded as [...]

At Home: A Reading by Rose Marasco

September 14, 2023

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Join artist Rose Marasco for a reading and celebration of her new book At Home (OSMOS Books 2023), a memoir and meditation on the history of photography. Marasco is a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography and a widely exhibited photographer with works in many museum collections, who has also spent decades as a beloved and highly regarded teacher of photography. [...]