Featuring Alison Smith, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Joe Goodrich, and Hayley Stoddard. Dogs amuse us, comfort us, and work for us – herding sheep, pulling sleds, sniffing for bombs or drugs, and alerting us to visitors or deliveries. They're been our companions and co-workers for thousands of years, and dogs and humans share a unique bond of friendship and love… And science has recently established that dogs really do love us -- and not just because we feed them.

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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.