The annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers is a collaborative, multi-venue event sponsored by Bard College at Simon’s Rock with many local partners, celebrated county-wide in the month of March, Women’s History Month.
In 2014, the Fourth Annual Festival will feature more than 150 women of all ages and from many backgrounds, sharing their talents through readings, lectures, workshops, performances and screenings held at 36 Berkshire County venues from Sheffield to Williamstown.
Here now to tell us more are Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, the Executive Director of Multicultural Bridge; Carmen Maria Mandley, Actor and Educator at Shakespeare & Company; and Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez is an associate professor of comparative literature and media studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Jennifer is the Founding Director of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers.