January 2007
Thursday, January 11-- Knox County Public
Library is pleased to offer a workshop series on “The Art of the Short Story,” starting
January 11 at 6 p.m. at Lawson McGhee Library. Brian Griffin,
the writer-in-residence for Knox County Public Library, will
lead a workshop, open to both beginning and experienced writers,
to explore the origins of literary creativity as well as
the process of writing. Additional sessions will be held
on January 18 and January 26 at 6:00 p.m.
For more information, please contact Nelda Hill at 215-8729
Friday, January 12 -- In conjunction with the Bookends and Books Exhibit, the Berea Arts Council will host a reading and book signing by Kentucky authors Jim Tomlinson, who wrote Things Kept, Things Left Behind, and Richard Taylor, author of Sue Mundy. The Exhibit reception is at 5:30pm. Reading and signing begins at 6:30pm. The reading will be held at Berea Arts Space, at College Square near the Boone Tavern.
Friday, January 12- Sunday, January 14—The Tennessee Mountain Writers and Tennessee Writers Alliance will hold the seventh annual January Jumpstart at the Best Western Hotel in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Jane Hicks will be heading the Poetry Workshop and this issue of Appalachian Heritage’s featured author Darnell Arnoult will be heading the Fiction Workshop.
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Wednesday, January 17 -- Sam Bevard, Maysville Ledger-Independent columnist and author of Beginning Again: Opening Day and Other Tales, will do a book signing and reading at the meeting of the Book Club at the Robertson County Public Library in Mt. Olivet from 4:00 to 6:00p.m.
Saturday, January 27 -- Peggy Ann Shifflett, Marion Higgins, April Miller, Ibby Greer, and T. Keister Greer will be featured authors at book signings at the Blue Lady Bookshop and The Grove in Rocky Mount, VA on Saturday, January 27th, 2007, from 2:00 to 5:00. For more information call 540-483-3692 or email .