• LGBTQ+ Fiction Writing Workshop with Elisabeth Nonas

    Join Buffalo Street Books for a writing workshop series with incredible local author, Elisabeth Nonas! This practical workshop will help you develop a work-in-progress or begin a new project in a safe, encouraging environment! Through discussion of writing exercises and prompts we will cover elements of craft—structure, character development, dialogue—as well as process, deadlines, critique guidelines, even writer’s block. Three ... Read More

    $40 – $60
  • LGBTQ+ OPEN MIC – LOVE POEMS

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    Join us at Buffalo Street Books for an open mic night and share queer love poems of any kind (including self-love!) With a reading of “Winter Becomes Us” by Laura Ward, from Love is For All of Us.

    Free
  • A READING AND CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN STONE AND JESSICA FEMIANI

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    About the Books: Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go— of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood—as well as how loss filters down through ... Read More

    Free
  • NORTH ROSE 1940 – ALEXANDER SKUTT

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    If Wayne County seceded from New York to became our 51st state, only three entire states would surpass it in apple production. In the early part of the 20th century, North Rose claimed the title of the busiest railroad shipping station for fruit in the country. Hundreds of farmers planted millions of apple trees just inland from Lake Ontario, one ... Read More

    Free
  • FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY CRAFT FAIR

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    Join us at Buffalo Street Books for the Future Archaeology Craft Fair July 27th: 11AM - 5PM Presented by Buffalo Street Books, Show Pony Studios, & The Paleontological Research Institution - and featuring special guest Museum of the Earth

    Free
  • THE PARTS OF HIM I KEPT: THE GIFTS OF MY FATHERS MADNESS

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    Join Natasha Williams with Sandra Sorensen (Executive Director of NAMI Finger Lakes) for a conversation on the power of storytelling to help make sense of caring for those with mental illness THE PARTS OF HIM I KEPT: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness, is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic ... Read More

    Free
  • ERICA ROSE EBERHART – DIMINISHED

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    Join local author Erica Rose Eberhart in conversation with Wren Cotrone for the release of her novel Diminished Author bio: Erica Rose Eberhart is a neurodivergent, disabled writer of queer characters, dragons, girls who grow feathers, and boys who become trees. She resides in the Finger Lakes of New York with her partner and child, and has sampled landscape inspiration ... Read More

    Free
  • CHILD OF LIGHT – JESI BENDER

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    esi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. She is the author of two novels, Child of Light and The Book of the Last Word, the play Kinderkrankenhaus, and a poetry collection Dangerous Women. In her free time, she runs KERNPUNKT Press, a home for experimental writing. www.jesibender.com Synopsis - Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged ... Read More

    Free
  • Book Club – Neither Wolf Nor Dog

    Buffalo Street Books 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca

    Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Kent Nerburn for a book club discussion of Neither Wolf Nor Dog! Book club titles are 10% off at BSB!

    Free