THOMASTON — Place-based short-story cycles play a historic role in American fiction, and two Maine authors, Laura Bonazzoli and Jodi Paloni, will discuss this genre and read from two of their collections Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m., at the Thomaston Public Library.

The presentation, co-sponsored by the Cushing Public Library, is free and open to the public. 

Both authors create fictional studies of New England communities and the lives of their inhabitants. Jodi Paloni’s linked short stories in They Could Live with Themselves take place in the fictional town of Stark Run, Vermont. A similarly fictional locale in rural Maine is the setting for Laura Bonazzoli’s Consecration Pond.

After an introduction to the larger topic, each author will read from her work. 

Bonazzoli has earned an M.F.A. in theatre and is a free-lance editor and writer, publishing poetry, fiction and essays. She lives in a renovated schoolhouse in Midcoast Maine, a short walk from a small but majestic pond.

Paloni lives in Pemaquid and is the founder of Maine Coast Writers Retreats. Her stories and essays have been published widely and she is a certified Gestalt Creativity Coach, a Gateless Writing Method Teacher, and a Sequencing: Making is Knowing Facilitator.
 

For further information call Wendy Roberts at 207-691-0833 or email wrobertsmaine63@gmail.com.