Elizabeth Gaffney/A Public Space Mentoring is the title of the next event in the Writing Now, Reading Now Series at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Ulrich Museum of Art. A reception at 5:30 p.m. will precede the reading. Gaffney has written two novels, "Metropolis" and "When the World Was Young," which will be published in July. Her short stories have been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Epiphany and other journals. She is the editor at large of the quarterly magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for 16 years.