"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

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

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

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

for more information contact sherry@flyyogamv.com

@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 yoga, meditation, and memoir writing as muse for meaning making and healing.

The two-hour workshop includes accessible movement and 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 with Sherry Sidoti

free and open to the public

Is freedom found in “letting go,” as the spiritual teachers insist—or is it found by digging our heels deeper into the earth and holding on to our humanness?

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.

Book Talk: A Smoke and a Song with Sherry Sidoti at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.

see retreat page for details!

Author Reading + Talk at The Wellfleet Public Library

Book Signing

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

"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

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