Author Reading + Talk at The Wellfleet Public Library

Book Signing

Is healing found in “letting go” as the spiritual teachings insist, or is it found by digging our heals deeper into the earth and holding on to our humanness?

Join Sherry Sidoti, yoga teacher and author of the memoir A Smoke and a Song, to explore movement, meditation, and memoir writing as muse for meaning-making and healing.

The two-hour workshop includes a thirty- minute accessible movement and contemplation practice, a writing prompt and time for free writing, group sharing (optional) and Q & A.

No writing or yoga experience necessary–just a willingness to show up authentically and an openness to discover what wants to find you in the process.

Themes we explore:

• Cellular memory and the stories homed in our bodies

• Transgenerational inheritance and dharma

• The complexity of memory/What is truth?

Movement and contemplation practices we explore:

• Gentle yoga practice

• Five Sense Awareness

• Inner and Outer Resourcing

Saturday, April 13th, 12-2pm (in-studio)

Sliding-scale workshop pricing: $40-50.*

Sanctuary150 Main StreetNorthampton, MA, 01060United States (map)

A Smoke and a Song Book Talk (In-Studio)

• Friday, April 12, 2024

• 7:00 PM  8:00 PM

• Sanctuary150 Main StreetNorthampton, MA, 01060United States (map)

Join us in this candid “behind the book” conversation of Sidoti’s A Smoke and a Song, moderated by local author and writing teacher Celia Jeffries. We’ll explore the writing process, risks and rewards of sharing our stories, and the healing potential of embodied writing. Bring your memoir writing and publishing questions!

Sherry Sidoti is a yoga teacher, writing teacher, and award-winning author. Her debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song, earned the Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir of 2023 with the Living Now Book Awards and the 2023 Reader’s Favorite Five Gold Star Memoir. Sherry lives on Martha’s Vineyard.

Celia Jeffries is a writer, editor, and memoir writing teacher. Her debut novel, Blue Desert, was a finalist for both the Sarton Historical Fiction award and the IPNE Literary Fiction award, and was the February 2023 Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society.

see retreat page for details!

Join Sherry Sidoti, Marie Howe, Mark Doty, and Veronica Redel for an evening of inspired writings to honor the late poet + painter Elise Asher. Each author will share their favoite of Asher's poems plus read some of their own writing. This is in conjunction with the exhibition: Elise Asher: The Vintage Years at Eric Firestone Gallery. 

40 GREAT JONES STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012

Art of Circling  Andrea Bendewald invites you to a Los Angeles book celebration for Sherry at Riverbank . Please stop by for a hug, pick up a book and get it signed, stay for a glass of wine by Hi-Lo Liquor, bites by Sorella Collective, and the Q + A moderated by the fabulous Sharon Leal. 

RSVP: hi@theartofcircling.com

Unlock the power of memoir writing at the Museum and dive into the role of Martha’s Vineyard as a muse for memoirists. Our stories hold immense value, and even if you think you don’t have one, you do, you may just need a little help with the first steps. Join Island authors Sherry Sidoti, Nancy Slonim Aronie, and Bill Eville as they invite you into the world of personal storytelling.

Their recent memoirs have captivated readers and won accolades. Sherry’s A Smoke and A Song has earned the esteemed Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir of 2023. Bill’s Washed Ashore explores the search for meaning in everyday existence, a journey familiar to many. Nancy Slonim Aronie, founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop, presents Memoir as Medicine, a guide to writing stories that heal and inspire. Learn why and how to craft personal narratives that heal, liberate, inspire, and entertain. Join us for an enriching evening, connect with our community, and support the Museum’s mission.

Preregistration encouraged.

The authors’ books will be available for purchase, thanks to Bunch of Grapes.

MVM Members: $15; Non-Members: $20.

A Smoke and a Song has been chosen as the Edgartown Library's Book of the month!

Contact: lsherman@clamsnet.org

Sherry will stop by 10/26/23 at 4pm for Q + A

In Person and Online Book Talk and Q + A: A Smoke and a Song with Sherry Sidoti at the Vineyard Haven Public Library. Moderated by Island author Julia Spiro.

About Julia: Julia Spiro is a writer living on Martha’s Vineyard. She has written two bestselling novels, SOMEONE ELSE’S SECRET (Lake Union, 2020) and FULL (Lake Union, 2022). Her forthcoming novel, SUCH A GOOD MOM, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2025.

zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89458949250

@Light & Space Studio - Ojai, California

2-4pm

Is healing found in “letting go” as the spiritual teachings insist, or is it found by digging our heals deeper into the earth and holding on to our humanness?

Join Sherry Sidoti, yoga teacher and author of the memoir A Smoke and a Song, to explore meditation, and memoir writing as muse for meaning making and healing.

The two-hour workshop includes contemplation practices, a writing prompt and time for free writing, group sharing (optional) and Q & A about memoir writing processes and practices.

No writing or yoga experience necessary- just a willingness to show up authentically and an openness to discover what wants to find you in the process.

5-6pm

Author Chat + Book Signing in conversation with Jen Pastiloff

free and open to the public

A Smoke and a Song is Sherry’s story of her quest to make meaning from the memories homed in her body. Told with tenacity, tenderness, and wry humor, Sherry stumbles towards self-actualization, spiritual awakening—and, despite it all, love. This is a story steeped in art and spirituality that explores the complexities of transgenerational maternal bonds, attachment, loss, and leaning into our wounds to find the wisdom.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Andrea + Sherry join forces again to bring you a soul-affirming three day retreat to Miracle Manor in Desert Hot Springs. Re-Imagining the Heroine's Journey. The Power in Our Stories. Circling, Yoga, + Writing.

for more information contact hi@theartofcircling.com

Sherry returns to Lafayette Colorado to offer a two-part event at Soul Tree Yoga

2:00-4:00pm Writing Our Way Home: a storytelling and somatic healing experience with yoga teacher + author Sherry Sidoti

4:30-6:00pm Author Chat & Book Signing/Community Event 

Open to the public. Book Sales by The Read Queen Bookstore

1280 Centaur Village Dr. #7 Lafayette, CO 303.665.8134

"Take Five: Meditation as Muse for Inspired Writing"

Oh, to be in “the zone,” filled with spontaneous inspiration, riding the sweet spot of creative flow! But equal to the elation that comes with writing come the roadblocks— overthinking, stress, dullness, mental restlessness, to name a few. Creativity is too easily hijacked by the mind-stuff.

The mystics have practiced meditation, mindfulness, and movement for centuries to harness the mind and merge with the “Divine Creator Within,” and so can we. Sometimes we just need to take five. Join yoga teacher and author Sherry Sidoti in this 90-minute workshop to learn how meditation can serve as muse for inspired writing.

Through three five-minute exercises we will explore how marrying meditation and writing can:

·  Nourish the writing experience as writers

·  Enliven the writing/storytelling itself

·  Bring focus and clarity to the editing process

Workshop includes conversation, gentle seated movement, contemplation, and writing.

Open to all—no prior meditation practice necessary. Bring something to write on/with, any writing pieces you may be working on, and an open mind

August 21, 9-10:30am

Islanders Write @ Featherstone

free and open to all

Book Sales by Edgartown Books

Sherry Sidoti will be "On the Porch" at Edgartown Books for a meet + greet and book signing for her newly released memoir: A Smoke and a Song 

Saturday August 5, 2023

11am-1pm 

This event is in conjunction with Islanders Write Event @Featherstone on 8/20-21

free and open to the public

Sherry Sidoti’s A Smoke and a Song Book Launch Blessing & Celebration!

Tuesday August 15, 4:00-6:00pm

Salte MV

6 South Water St. Edgartown

invocation + moderation w/Anita Kopacz

Lomar Farms Pop-up

Music w/DJ Dern

free and open to the public

"Behind the Book" A Smoke and a Song

Join author Sherry Sidoti in this informal chat to learn the nitty-gritty "behind the scenes” of writing and publishing her memoir, including:

what inspired her to write

fun facts about A Smoke and a Song

the publishing journey

what she has learned in the process

chat and Q + A moderated by author Paul Samuel Dolman

Edgartown Public Library

August 19 10:30am-noon

free and open to the public

Book Sales by Edgartown Books

Book Talk with Sherry Sidoti: A Smoke And A Song

Memory is not a neatly sequenced timeline of events, and neither is a memoir. Memory is complex and it is fallible. What we remember will always be deeply personal, subject to the complexities of who we are and the lens we look through. What is memory and what is “truth”? What do we chose to tell, what do we leave out, and why? How do weigh the risks with the rewards of telling our stories? These conundrums are enough to paralyze any memoirist from writing and publishing their book! Join Sherry Sidoti in this informal chat where will discuss how she approaches this inquiry. Perhaps it is in the fallibility of memory itself, that therein lies the writing craft.

September 8, 2023

5:30-6:30pm

Oak Bluffs Public Library

free and open to the public

Book sales by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore

"Artistic Motivation"

Join author Sherry Sidoti in this informal chat and Q & A about her newly released memoir A Smoke and a Song moderated by Mathea Morais, author of There Your Are and director of Literary Arts at Featherstone, including:

Contextualizing our stories

Artistic influences in our lives

Island Inspiration in our writing

The publishing journey

and more!

West Tisbury Public Library

September 21, 2023

4:30-5:30pm

free and open to all

Book sales by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore

"All Things Memoir"

Join Sherry Sidoti in this author's talk and Q & A session with author and memoir writing teacher Nancy Slonim Aronie. 

The two memoirists will chat about Sidoti's new book and all things memoir, including: 

the inspiration behind A Smoke and a Song, what motivates us to share our stories, weighing the risks and rewards of writing memoir, writing as a healing practice, Martha's Vineyard as Memoir Muse, and more. 

Come with all your memoir writing questions!

October 4, 2023

4:00-5:00pm

MV Museum

links for tickets below

Book sales by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore

“A Smoke and a Song is a winning book! Sherry Sidoti’s prose is absolutely gorgeous—lyrical and tender, moody and insightful, mystical and relatable. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. A memoir told with such nuanced self-awareness; you’ll find yourself needing to put the book down at moments just to pause, take in her reflections, and make meaning of your own story through hers.”

—Nancy Slonim Aronie, author of Writing from the Heart and Memoir as Medicine

Womencrafts, Provincetown, MA

A Smoke and a Song has been chosen for the October Book Club.

contact Rebecca.johnson@farawayhotels.com

Sherry will stop by 10/18/23 at 6:30pm for Q + A