November 2003
Thursday, November 6—Leatha Kendrick, Steve Rhodes, and Libby Jones will read from their works at the Artspace, 116 Main Street (near Boone Tavern) in Berea, Kentucky, at 7pm.
Thursday, November 6 – Sunday, November 9—Green River Writer's Poetry Retreat will take place at the University of Louisville's Shelby Campus. The retreat will focus on the reading, writing, and critiquing of poetry. Contact Mary O'Dell at 502-245-4902 for more details.
Friday, November 7—Kentucky Conversation Committee will host a fundraiser, "Kentucky Voices," at the Coffee Tree Cafe & Poor Richards Bookstore in Frankfort at 7 pm. Billy C. Clark, Sena Jeter Naslund, Steven Cope, and Bill Kennon will appear at the event.
Friday, November 7—George Ella Lyon and twenty other contributors to the anthology A Kentucky Christmas will host a book signing at Lebanon Public Library in Lebanon, Kentucky, n November 16, in Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Kentucky, and also at Bohannon's Books With a Past in Georgetown on November 21 from 3:30-5pm.
Saturday, November 8—Kentucky Book Fair at Frankfort Civic Center. The Book Fair will feature over 150 authors from Kentucky and beyond. Visit http://www.kdla.net/kybookfair.htm for details.
Friday, November 14 – Sunday, November 16—The South Atlantic Modern Languages Association (SAMLA) convention will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Also, There will be a SAMLA Appalachian Literature session with the topic "New Voices in Appalachian Literature", which will forcus on Appalachian writers who have emerged over the past 10-15 years. Please see their website at www.samla.org.
Saturday, November 15—The Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky, will host a reading featuring Susan Christerson Brown, Deborah Reed, Pam Sexton, and Crystal Wilkinson. The event is to honor Lexington area's first MFA graduates in Creative Writing of Spalding University.
Thursday, November 20—Good Foods Cafe will feature Leatha Kendrick in "Karma in the Cafe," a monthly series devoted to Kentucky's most respected authors. It will take place from 6-9 pm at the Good Foods Market and Cafe on Southland Drive in Lexington. For more information, [ Read More ]