Boston Writer's Salon At The Sea Hag
The Boston Writer's Salon is a Literary Event held at The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar in Harvard Square, MA. We meet once a month to celebrate our local vibrant literary community. Come for the epic lineup, stay for the open mic. Hosted by local memoirist Marianna Pease. www.bostonwriterssalon.com and on Instagram livestream the show @mariannapease
June Lineup:
Milo Todd is a bestselling author and an amateur stop-motion animator. He's also co-editor-in-chief for the award-winning LGBTQ+ literary journal, Foglifter Journal, and runs The Queer Writer newsletter. His debut novel, The Lilac People, is a national bestseller, a Lambda Literary Finalist, a Stonewall Honor Book, runner-up the James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, a New England Book Award Finalist, a Libro.fm Bookseller Choice Award Winner, an Amazon Best Book of 2025, and more.
HENRIETTE LAZARIDIS is the author of Last Days in Plaka (a Good Morning America Buzz pick), Terra Nova (which the New York Times called “ingenious”), and The Clover House (a Boston Globe bestseller). A first-generation Greek/American, she earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, she went on to teach English literature at Harvard for ten years. Her essays and articles have been published in Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is co-founder of Galiot Press, an innovative new publishing venture, and runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. An avid athlete, Henriette writes about athletic and creative challenges at The Entropy Hotel on Substack.
Emily Ross is the author of Swallowtail, a mystery thriller set in Quincy, MA, that blends a gripping murder mystery with themes of art, trauma, and mythology. It was praised by Publishers Weekly for its “nerve-shredding tension” and featured in The Patriot Ledger and The Boston Globe. Her young adult thriller, Half in Love with Death, was an International Thriller Writers Awards finalist. Her award-winning short story “Let the Chips Fall” appears in Devil’s Snare: Best New England Crime Stories 2024. She lives in Quincy, MA, with her husband and Obi-Wan Kenobi, their very playful cat.
Virginia Pye is the author of five award-winning works of fiction, including two post-colonial historical novels set in China, River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix, and the short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness. Her last novel, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, is a love story to writers and readers set in Gilded Age Boston. Virginia’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Publisher’s Weekly, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her most recent novel, Marriage and Other Monuments, was published in February and she’ll be reading from it tonight.
Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novel Westerly, which came out on June 1, and Winter Loon, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate, and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling, she lives and writes in Massachusetts.
Crystal King is the author of four novels spanning historical fiction and contemporary fantasy. Her latest, The Happiness Collector, is a contemporary fantasy that Booklist calls "a must for V.E. Schwab and Katee Robert fans" and was named an Amazon Editor's Pick. Her historical novels include In the Garden of Monsters (longlisted for a MassBook Award and selected as an Amazon Editor's Pick), The Chef's Secret, and Feast of Sorrow (longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize). Crystal's writing is fueled by a love of history and a passion for the food, language, and culture of Italy. You can find her at crystalking.com.
Jenn Bouchard is the award-winning author of PALMS ON THE CAPE, CONSIDERING US, and FIRST COURSE, as well as several published short stories. She has been teaching high school social studies for twenty-six years and also teaches short story classes to adults in her community. She is an avid cook, volunteer for good causes, and devoted Red Sox fan. A graduate of Bates College and Tufts University, she lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband and two teenage children.
Walter Williams W.B.J. Williams is an author and poet who happens to be an internationally respected expert in information security and unicorns. With an advanced degree in Anthropology and an amateur historian, he serves his local community as part of the Historical Commission. He writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His bad puns are endured by his beloved wife and daughters. When not writing, he can often be found haunting the bookstores of the Boston area to the dismay of his budget. He has not given up looking for unicorns, as he knows that you always find things in the last place you look.
Julia Djeke is a lifelong spiritual seeker. Since the day she learned the word why, she's never stopped asking it. Her (irritating) inquisitions spill into every topic, making her life’s investigative journalist.This perspective governs her career, alchemized into an assortment of job titles. Julia is the content strategist for Primacy, a New England-based marketing agency. She also teaches critical thinking and writing at UMass Boston as well as yoga for residential wellness programs. She is founder of Spiritual Sampler, a virtual tasting menu for the spiritually curious.
Judi Harrington is a Boston-born writer, lifelong Masshole, and the author of Fuckery: The Life and Times of A Legend (In Her Own Mind)—a humorous memoir in essays that doubles as a middle finger to perfection and a love letter to family. She’s a Top 3 finalist in the global humor category of the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition and has been nominated in the Best Copywriter Category by Boston Business Women. When she’s not mining her own life for material, she writes compliance-ready copy for financial institutions, lawyers, and other assorted rule-followers. Someone has to pay the bills. Judi is also a regular contributor on Substack, where she breaks down the intricacies of grammar, punctuation, and everything you never wanted to know about writing. As an editor and book coach, her work includes See Dick Throw a Hissy Fit: The Rise and Predictable Fall of U.S. Culture by Dr. Lauran Star and Mastering Your Sleep Puzzle by Kali Patrick, an Amazon bestseller because it managed to both be a book about sleep that didn’t actually put you to sleep.
Allison ZiggyAllison Ziegler (also know as Allison Ziggy) is a writer, and business owner with her own line of manifestation planners, journals and online programs. She has also created in person journaling communities in NYC and Philly, under the name "The Calendar Club.”Her Substack (and upcoming first book) is appropriately titled Princess Uninterrupted, and she writes about love, heartbreak and what it really takes to push past doubt to create the life of your dreams.You can find her on Instagram @allisonziggy and on Substack https://substack.com/@allisonziggy