Host and Toast Your Own Merry Company

Please follow our invitation to organize local meetings of the Association in your own towns and schools. The ALSC will provide up to $75 for refreshments for such occasions. Perhaps the word "meetings" sounds too drab. Have little literary festivals. They’re not hard to organize. Our staff can provide you with an email list of ALSC members in your area. All you have to do is dream up an occasion—a reading of new (or old) fiction or poetry, a talk on work in progress or splendidly completed, a play-reading, a communal discussion of a hot new book. Then set a date; send out invitations; offer wine, Ginger Ale, eau de vie, cheese, olives, anchovies, pickled eels, chocolate chip cookies, opium… If you hold several such parties each year, you’ll build a lively community and establish tradition and momentum (that pair that presides at the heart of the life of letters). You will also build important links between young scholars, writers and readers, and their elders. One of the most successful features of the Boston meetings, which take place twice a semester, has been the alternation of presentations by senior and emerging writers.

In this way, the ALSC will become a vital force extending beyond the covers of Literary Imagination and the hotel walls of the annual conference. Such local occasions will exhibit our flair, our idealism, our delight. They are a perfect instrument for attracting new members, so please include people who are not yet members.

—Rosanna Warren
Past President (2005)

Apply to host a local meeting using this form

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or contact us at:

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
650 Beacon Street, Suite 510
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-358-1990 | Fax: 617-358-1995
Email: alsc@bu.edu

A full list of past local meetings is coming soon.