Monthly Archives: September 2026

New six-week Writers’ Workshop begins on September 24 at Dog Ears Bookstore

A new six-week session of the Writers’ Workshop for adults is slated at Dog Ears Bookstore & Café, 688 Abbott Road, Buffalo. Classes will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. beginning Thursday, Sept. 24, and then continuing on Thursday evenings through Oct. 29.

All participants will present current writing efforts that will be gently critiqued. Light refreshments are included, and the cost is $75 for all six Thursday evening meetings.                          

To register for the Writers’ Workshop, please call the bookstore at (716) 823-2665 or email John Schreier at jmarkschrei@aol.com.

Dog Ears Bookstore to host popular Puppy Tales series beginning September 25

A new six-week Puppy Tales series at Dog Ears Bookstore & Café, located at 688 Abbott Road in South Buffalo, will kick off at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25.

Open to children ages 3 and 4 accompanied by a parent or guardian, Puppy Tales runs on six consecutive Friday mornings and each session includes three stories, a craft and healthy snacks. Sessions are skill- and book-based and the cost is $30 per child. Puppy Tales is limited to 15 children.

Puppy Tales is a great way to prepare students for Pre-K. To register for Puppy Tales, please visit the bookstore or call (716) 823-2665.

Dog Ears Bookstore to host two authors on October 10

Dog Ears Bookstore & Café will host two authors for a book-signing event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10

Chera (Apruzzese) Thompson’s award-winning novels, A Time to Wander and Dawned on the Danube, were inspired by true events. Her fiction and non-fiction works have been published in several anthologies, including the Los Angeles Review and Beach Combing Magazine. She has also contributed slice-of-life essays to The Buffalo News My View column. She held rewarding careers in travel and teaching English to refugees.

Terez Peipins, author of Budapest Clues, is a writer of Latvian descent. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in publications both in the United States and abroad. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and five novels. She is the former fiction editor of the Adirondack Review and winner of the Natasha Trethewey Poetry Prize from the Atlanta Writers Club. Budapest Clues is the third book in the Dan Kiraly detective series.

Dog Ears Bookstore is located at 688 Abbott Road, Buffalo. For more information, please visit dogearsbookstore.org.