Literary Happy Hour with Cats (Ages 21+)

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Literary Happy Hour with Cats and Janis Hubschman! Join us on Thursday, November 19th at 6:30PM for fourth Literary Happy Hour with Cats! We are so excited to feature award-winning fiction writer, Janis Hubschman, who will read one of her short stories to her cat and human audience. After the reading, Janis will talk with fellow fiction writer and host of the Literary Happy Hour, Jill Rosenberg, about writing, cute animals, and creativity. Your admission includes a glass of wine and plenty of time with our adorable, adoptable cats. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Catfé cats. Come meet Janis, enjoy great conversation, and support rescue cats while celebrating a local author. 💕🐾📚🍷 More about Janis: Janis Hubschman is the author of the story collection, Take Me With You Next Time (Betty Books). She has published dozens of stories in literary magazines that include Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Saturday Evening Post, Southern Humanities Review, and West Branch. Her stories have won Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award and a first-place award from Glimmer Train. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train Bulletin, and New York Runner. She was the recipient of a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Fiction Scholarship and two fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband in New Jersey and currently teaches fiction writing at Montclair State University. And more about Jill: Jill Rosenberg is a graduate of Vassar College and the MFA Program at the University of Montana. Her fiction has been published by the Kenyon Review, swamp pink, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. Her collection of stories, Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself, won the St. Lawrence Book Prize. Her individual stories have won prizes as well. She currently writes and teaches in Montclair, New Jersey. She is a Catfe Montclair volunteer and the host of Literary Happy Hour with Cats.