The Gardiner Library is currently hosting a Writing Workshop series with author Lawrence Carr with the final two workshops on Monday April 8 and April 22 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The workshops will focus on Fact or Fiction helping those interested in writing their stories and memoirs. Each session is $15. Pre-registration for the workshops is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome.

Laurence Carr writes fiction, plays and poetry. His newest book of poetry, Threnodies: Poems of Remembrance, was published by Codhill Press. His novel, Pancake Hollow Primer, won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for first novel in 2012; and he co-edited of A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, winner of five national awards including the USA Best Book Award for anthology. Laurence is also the editor of Riverine: an Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers. He’s been widely published and over 20 of his plays have been produced throughout the U.S and Europe including The Wakeville Stories and Vaudeville. Laurence teaches dramatic and creative writing at SUNY New Paltz.

All workshops and classes are held in the library community room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike in Gardiner.