BIG SUCCESS FOR OUR MOTHERS AND STRANGERS PREVIEW READING

Big success for our Mothers and Strangers Preview Reading October 24 at Block Gallery, Raleigh.
Eight writers, including me and co-editor Lee Smith, read to a standing room only audience. Also reading: Novelist Jill McCorkle, NC Poet Laureate '18 Jaki Shelton Green, Lynden Harris, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Belle Boggs, Margaret Rich.

Preview Reading for Mothers & Strangers October 24th!

Exciting Day, Wednesday October 24: Our Preview Reading for Mothers & Strangers!
Raleigh Television News will be filming the entire event, Noon to 1 pm.
At Block Gallery, 222 Hargett St, Raleigh downtown.
Reading with me is a high-powered roster in the ranks of Southern literature: best-selling novelists Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton Greene, Lynden Harris, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Belle Boggs, Margaret Rich. Barbara Tyroler photographed me, see below, for the concurrent exhibition along with five other authors, and Elizabeth Matheson photographed three others.

Mothers, Daughters and the Writing Life Artists Reception at Block Gallery, Raleigh

The opening night of the photography exhibition on October 6 was a notable success, with the photographers Barbara Tyroler and Elizabeth Matheson; Raleigh Arts Curator Stacy Bloom-Rexrode, and several of the writers featured in the photos, including Jill McCorkle, Margaret Rich, Lynden Harris, and myself; as well as several writers from our anthology, Mothers and Strangers, who were not featured in the exhibition. So gratifying to see the success of an idea that Barbara Tyroler and I conceived months ago!