Word Up: Long Island LitFest

Alan Zweibel image: jeff wilson
eatured reader and emcee Barry Dougherty image: jeff wilson
Featured authors, left to right: Iyna Bort Caruso, LitFest producer Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and Paula Ganzi Licata. image: jeff wilson
. LitFest essay contest winner Debra Cohen Beckerman image: jeff wilson

Best-selling and award-winning writers, novelists and columnists gathered at the Madison Theater at Molloy College in Rockville Centre for a day of lectures, meet and greets, book signings and reading sessions. Among the invited talent were authors Amy Ferris, Adam Resnick and Susan Shapiro. Sponsors included Cohen’s Fashion Optical, NYU Langone Medical Centers and Turn of the Corkscrew, Books & Wine.