Waterline Writers to feature Chicago author David Berner

On Sunday, Feb. 21, join Waterline Writers' monthly reading event and experience writers reading their own work - poetry, spoken word, fiction, nonfiction, scenes and more - at 7 p.m. at Water Street Studios, 160 S. Water St. in downtown Batavia. There is a $5 donation.

Find out what can happen behind the scenes when Hemingway Writer-in-Residence and Chicago radio personality David W. Berner reads "Bare Naked Radio," then visit the home of "Bird Woman," a memorable character from a new novel by five-star Kirkus Review-acclaimed author Bruce Steinberg (B.R. Robb). A sci-fi short story from Raymond Ziemer takes you into one world and out another.

New this month: the artists featured at Water Street Studios have influenced the selection of poets! There are interesting parallels between Laura Henrikson's poetry and Todd Reed's geometric paintings, and Hakeem Jones's poems give a much-needed voice to Jesse Howard's portraits of racial, economic and social injustice.

Everyone is welcome; you don't have to be a writer. If you are a writer, join the 5-minute-limit open mic at 8:30 p.m., or find submission info at WaterlineWriters.org. Follow www.facebook.com/waterlinewriters/.