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20 Years of The Gathering of Writers

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 [...]

Maine Women Writers Collection celebrates 60 years

Maine Women Writers Collection celebrates 60 years

June 14, 2019

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

MWWC Reading Room

In the same year that Mattell introduced the Barbie Doll and only 35 percent of college students were female, two Westbrook Junior College (WJC) instructors made a pioneering step in the field of women’s literary studies. Grace A. Dow, chair and professor in the Department of English at WJC, and Dorothy M. Healy, a WJC [...]