Tue, Nov 08
|Pete's Cayuga Bar
Veteran Writers Meet-Up
Award-winning author Brian O'Hare invites area veterans to an informal conversation about writing and the military experience.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2022, 8:00 PM
Pete's Cayuga Bar, 116 S Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
About this event
Award-winning author Brian O'Hare invites area veterans to an informal conversation about writing and the military experience.
O’Hare is a graduate of the US Naval Academy who served for six years as a US Marine Corps officer, including in the 1991 Gulf War. He will be at The Rest Gallery at 113 W. State Street in Ithaca from 3 to 8 p.m. on November 8 to promote his new collection of stories, Surrender. At 8 p.m. he will head over to Pete's.
You can order your copy of Surrender here. Follow O'Hare on Instagram or Twitter or visit his website for more information.
Brian O'Hare is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts; Santa Fe Writers Project; Hobart; and other journals, and he has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. He was named a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and recently served as Visiting Writer at CUNY/Kingsborough (Brooklyn). He’s currently at work on his debut novel.
This event is co-presented by Story House Ithaca and Warrior Writers–Tompkins, a group that gives veterans a chance to come together as a community to reflect on their collective experiences and express them through writing. Warrior Writers–Tompkins meets twice a month at the Tompkins County Department of Veterans Services. To take part in person or online, e-mail veteran@tompkins-co.org.