Featuring Deborah Batterman. This 5-minute, spoken-word story single is part of Carnegie Hall’s 2021 "Voices of Hope" festival which examines the life-affirming power of music and the arts during times of crisis.

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Writers Read™ is a literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. It’s a high-quality platform for true personal stories—two pages and 650 words long, read aloud by the writer before an audience. Read650 places a strong emphasis on the craft of writing—word choices, sentence structures, the arc of the narrative. Our submission-based events are developed around broad themes that invite a wide range of expression. An editorial committee curates and sequences the content of each show and, where necessary, our editors collaborate with writers to further refine their work.