For the past three years, the Cambridge At Home Writers Group has been meeting every other week to share and discuss their pieces. Works in progress have included a young adult novel about a young girl growing up in the Dust Bowl drought in the thirties; a novel about love, dreams and baseball; poetic fragments of a childhood of living around the world with an ambassador father, with the tentative title Who Am !?; the making of a radical social anthropologist and a caretaker’s tale of a dying husband.
Participants range in experience from beginners to published authors. The group is led by Michelle Seaton, an award-winning journalist, NPR reporter, and coauthor of several fitness and health books. Seaton is also the lead instructor who created the curriculum for Grub Street's Memoir Project, a program that offers free memoir classes to senior citizens in Boston neighborhoods.
The group is open to CAH members and is currently open to new participants.