05/26/2026
So EXCITED, we can't wait! 🤩
Meet the first readers for The Carriage Barn Reading Series at Park-McCullough! On June 29 (a Monday), we welcome V. Hansmann, writer and innkeeper at Prospect Street Writers House, and June Gervais, author of the novel Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair.
Join us for this free event on June 29, 5-6:30pm, at 1 Park Street, North Bennington, VT.
June Gervais’s debut novel Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair (Viking/Penguin) is the coming-of-age story of a young q***r woman chasing her dream of becoming a tattoo artist in the 1980s, when the industry was a gritty, predominantly male subculture. Called “original, immersive, and wholly alive” (Kirkus Reviews), it has been praised in The New York Times, Newsday, Ploughshares, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, Shondaland’s Pride Month Reading List, Lambda Literary's “Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature,” and more.
V was raised by wealthy people in suburban New Jersey; growing up to be neurotic, alcoholic, homosexual, and old. In June 2011, he completed an MFA in creative writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars, concentrating in nonfiction and poetry. He has submitted poems and essays sporadically ever since. Beginning August 2011, he hosted a monthly reading series, first in Greenwich Village that went dark in March ’20, only to reappear six months later on Zoom and finally die in 2022. Most significantly, V’s now a Vermonter, having converted a derelict nursing home into a twelve-bedroom writers residency, Prospect Street Writers House, in North Bennington.
