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Reading From New Work


Tuesday January 3, 2012, 7:30 PM at Founders Hall, Pine Manor College: Reading from her forthcoming book "Lies About My Family"

Thursday March 8, 2012 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Lunchtime Seminar, Wellesley Center's For Women, Wellesley College. Reading from new work.

Reading at the University of Rhode Island

Where I've Been.


The Ex-Lovers Northeast Tour


Babson College, Wellesley, MA March 25, 2009

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN November 2008
Seminar for graduate students in Creative Writing in the Vanderbilt Master of Fine Arts Program on careers after an MFA. Reading in the afternoon from "An Army Of Ex-Lovers".

See, hear or download Amy reading from the love letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association 2008 National Convention & 5th Annual LGBT Media Summit August 2008 at the Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C

May 07, 2008, Amy Hoffman and Anais Mitchell visited Woman Stirred Radio. Interview by Merry Gangemi

July 6-11, 2008
New Hampshire World Fellowship Center
Mt. Chocorua Writing Retreat.
Finding The Writer Inside You.
Workshop in Poetry, Fiction (short story/​novel) and Creative Non-Fiction for beginning, continuing, and returning writers.

April 16, 2008
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
42 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
Panel discussion "Writer's Life" Series

March 13, 2008
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York City

Feb 14, 2008
Central Square Library, Cambridge
Center For New Words
Women Who Love Reading What They Love
Share Valentine's with Local Sheroes

January 30-February 2, 2008
Association of Writer's and Writing Programs Conference in New York City
We Will Be Citizens: The Insistent Voice of Lesbian Nonfiction.

January 22, 2008
Brookline Booksmith
reading from An Army of Ex-Lovers

December 4, 2007, Brown University, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Women's Center
and the LGBT Center

November 15, 2007, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA
sponsored by the Center for New Words

November 14, 2007, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
sponsored by the Read Write series

November 8, 2007, South Hadley, MA
sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Center and Odyssey Books

October 30, 2007, Wheelock College, Brookline, MA
sponsored by Stonwall Communities

October 25, 2007, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley, MA
sponsored by the WCW Brown Bag Lunch series


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Events



Amy Hoffman, MFA, editor-in-chief of Women's Review of Books, in this video series shares background history of the publication and explains why WRB remains a popular and needed publication. Hoffman discusses how works are selected for Women's Review of Books, the success of their blog, and some of her favorite books and authors.
Part 1
In Part 1 of this video series, Hoffman talks about why Women's Review of Books is an important publication.

Copyright 2011, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College. This video cannot be posted elsewhere without the explicit written permission of the Wellesley Centers for Women. Contact: News-WCW@​wellesley.edu

Amy reading from her new book at Pine Manor College

Amy Hoffman moderating a panel discussion about books, history, and the creative process.with Anita Diamant and Geraldine Brooks at the Jewish Book Fair: Distinguished Author Series. December 6, 2009.

Read about "40 Years Of Gay Pride In Boston", Boston Globe April 13, 2010 by Sam Alliss. A look back on the Gay movement in Boston from Gay Liberation to Gay Marriage.

Click Here for a great slide show of Boston Gay History.

LISTEN to Amy Hoffman reading from a work in progress: Lies About My Family: A Memoir. (October 29, 2009) 26:29 min. NOTE: EARPHONES NEEDED. RECORDING VERY LOW.
See Amy's reading in March 2008 at New York's LGBT Community Center featured on The Center's 25th anniversary film on BLIP TV.
You can download the entire reading at www.gaycenter.org/out

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Selected Works

Memoir
An Army of Ex-Lovers
A vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press
Hospital Time
Hoffman’s memoir expresses the psychological and emotional havoc AIDS creates for those in the difficult role of caring for the terminally ill.

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Pine Manor College MFA Program
The Center For New Words
New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
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Web Site of the Late Gay Activist Eric Rofes
Duke University Press
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