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Welcome to OCWW CONNECT, your resource for member-led social, educational and cultural events that go beyond our weekly workshops. From remote meetups, coffee and conversations and lunch and learns to evening social gatherings, field trips and open mics, CONNECT is OCWW's link to the greater creative community.    

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    • June 05, 2025
    • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
    • HAPP INN - 305 N Happ Rd, Northfield
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    ~ Community - Creativity - Celebration  ~

    Join your colleagues as OCWW concludes another
    amazing season
     
     

    Complimentary lunch and
    soft beverages 
    served
    family-style  ~

    • June 10, 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • The Book Bin 1929 Cherry Lane NORTHBROOK
    • 8
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    The book we're pumping is
    Promising Young Man

    Join Pump Up the Volume, OCWW’s member book club, for its first June in-person book discussion featuring member Patricia Stankovic's New Adult novel, Promising Young Man.

    A modern-day Catcher in the Rye sharing all its humor and heart, this book nearly vibrates with the animated and poignant voice of protagonist Oscar Danielsson, a troubled eighteen-year-old charmer struggling to come of age despite all of the expectations of his family, friends… and himself.

    We’ll have tons to chew on in this novel that’s part inter-generational saga, part road trip, part commentary on the current climate of the nation’s mental health crisis facing our youth, and 100 percent unforgettable.

    Copies available now at The Book Bin - new location 

    Order from Amazon

    BIO:  Patricia Stankovic    wrote  Promising Young Man under the pen name Elias Axel. She was the Author/ Photographer, Boys Named Sue from JWC Media; Co-creator, The Making of a Dream, a documentary short film; and Flash Fiction Finalist, Cutting the Umbilical Heart Strings, at Women on Writing. Her work has appeared in The Evanston Round Table, The Evanston Review (The Chicago Tribune), About Write, the Daily Northwestern, and EVTV Channel 6. She serves as a volunteer for OCWW and on the Board of Directors for Evanston Writers Workshop.

    Questions, comments? Please contact Book Club Chair Liz Fox.

Past CONNECTS

May 13, 2025 PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR The Wisdom of the Willow
March 10, 2025 OCWW Literary Roundtable - The Substack Adventure: An Informative Workshop
February 25, 2025 PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR 'IF IT COMES TO THAT'
December 19, 2024 PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR A VIENNESE WALTZ
December 09, 2024 RAGDALE WRITERS' RETREAT
October 20, 2024 CELEBRATE RAGDALE NEXT
October 19, 2024 PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR DOWN THE STEEP
September 07, 2024 OCWW AUTHORS @ PRINTER'S ROW LITFEST 2024
May 30, 2024 END OF SEASON LUNCHEON
May 21, 2024 Critique CONNECTION
March 20, 2024 PUMP UP THE VOLUME FOR BERNADINE'S SHANGHAI SALON
March 18, 2024 CONNECT: Book Club Mixer - Featuring Rebecca Makkai
February 27, 2024 CONNECT @ OCWW's Micro Memoir OPEN MIC
January 30, 2024 Literary Roundtable: Share Your Favorite Writerly Resource
December 12, 2023 CONNECT at THE BOOK STALL with Kelly Farmer and Friends
November 06, 2023 PUMP UP THE VOLUME for BeatNikki's Cafe
October 02, 2023 CONNECT at Bookends & Beginnings - Meet Eula Biss
September 28, 2023 CONNECT for Coffee and Conversation
August 23, 2023 COOKIES & CONFLICT - POETRY SLAM AT BOOK STALL
August 16, 2023 RAGDALE: PICNIC on the PRAIRIE
May 25, 2023 KELLY McMASTERS AUTHOR EVENT
May 25, 2023 END OF YEAR LUNCHEON
April 30, 2023 MEANINGFUL CONFLICTS~ LAUNCH PARTY
April 18, 2023 CONNECT - Tuesday Roundtable Read at AVLI
April 16, 2023 CONNECT - READING YOUR WORK ALOUD WITHOUT FEAR
March 21, 2023 CONNECT - Rebecca Makkai at THE BOOK STALL
February 26, 2023 CONNECT - Lessons in Chemistry from THE BOOK STALL
February 21, 2023 CONNECT - Roundtable Read at AVLI
January 29, 2023 CONNECT - IMPROV THEATRE AT THE DEN
January 25, 2023 CONNECT CRAFT TALK - FIND A PLACE FOR YOUR WRITING - AND GET PAID
December 18, 2022 HOLIDAY THEATER MEET & MINGLE


 

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