Coni Koepfinger, resident playwright and Creative Director of the New Play Exchange, has written a play that will premiere in NYC this coming January 13-24, 2027. Titled "Paulie & Me," Coni's new work grew out of her friendship and working relationship with Paul Eisemann. Koepfinger says that this new play is "the best thing I have ever written." Theatre friends Koepfinger and Eisemann had started working on the play together when a terrible explosion compromised Paul's life.

Susan Murphy has been a very busy artist with two prints featured in the New Woodstock Library with the Cazenovia Watercolor Society. She currently has three paintings in the Buffalo & Erie County Botanial Gardens exhibition that runs through September 2026. In addition, Susan has artwork juried into the Niagara Falls Watercolor Society Show at the Western Artist Group Gallery, the exhibition running from October 9 through November 13, 2026. This amazing artist also has three

Lisa Harris has written a new book of poetry titled Learning to Pray. Reviewed, book is a "lovely and startling collection of poetry that excavates our natural world and our frightening contrived one. How to love and connect, to find holiness amid nature and with each other." It is available in multiple formats, including Kindle. Nancy Dafoe's new novel The Woman Who Talked After Death was released from the publisher Pen Women Press on September 1, 2026. The literary novel, D