The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) will host a virtual Poetluck on Thursday, June 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. WCDH has canceled public gatherings until further notice due to COVID-19. However, our virtual Poetluck continues to be an opportunity to hear local writers and writers from across the nation read their work. Hannah
Read MoreThe Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) has countered the coronavirus by scheduling the April Poetluck as a virtual event. On Thursday, April 16, local writers and Writers’ Colony alumni will read from a variety of verse and prose works. The event will begin at 6:30 pm. Order will be chosen by random drawing. To
Read MoreBack in December of 2019, Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow board member and author Charles Templeton launched the first Dairy Hollow podcast, “Write Now at the Writers’ Colony.” Since then, a total of seven thirty- to forty-minute podcasts on writing topics have been produced. On March 30, 2020, prompted by the new locked-down life of
Read MoreThe 2020 Authors Festival at Kimberling Area Library in Kimberling City, Missouri is scheduled for February 1, 2020. The deadline to apply for speaking slots and tables is November 1, 2019. Applicants will be notified of acceptance in December. Authors with books to sell can apply to speak at the event. A limited number of
Read MoreDelia Owens, author of the best-selling novel Where the Crawdads Sing, will visit the Fayetteville Public Library for an interview with KUAF’s Kyle Kellams on July 20, 2019 at 2:30 pm. A book signing will follow the interview. Where the Crawdads Sing is a mystery, a love story and a courtroom drama, but it is primarily
Read MoreAuthors Mel and Joan Gordon, authors of a novel about General Casimir Pulaski, will be the featured speakers at the December Legacies and Lunch lecture in the Ron Robinson Theater, Library Square in the Little Rock Market District at noon on December 5, 2018. Thirty-two-year-old Casimir Pulaski joined the American Continental Army in 1777, already
Read MoreDebby Schriver will be at Nightbird Books on October 19 at at 7 pm to present her book, Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom. Whispering in the Daylight takes readers on a vivid journey of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, beginning in 1969 with
Read MoreKyle Mooty will be the featured speaker at the Fayetteville Library Sunday, 12 August 2018 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Walker Community Room. Mooty will read from his new book, New Set of Downs: How Johnny Dyess Fought off His Greatest Would-Be Tackler and Returned to Winning Ways. Mooty’s book traces the career
Read MoreIF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE LIBRARY ON JULY 7, YOU CAN WATCH THIS EVENT VIA THE LIBRARY’S LIVE STREAM SITE The 2018 Fayetteville Public Library Summer Author Series will conclude on Saturday, July 7 at 2 pm with a presentation by author Stephen Koch. He will discuss his book, Louis Jordan: Son of Arkansas,
Read MoreMarvin Schwartz, author of We Wanna Boogie: The Rockabilly Roots of Sonny Burgess and the Pacers will be in the Walker Community Room Please join us on June 26 at 6:00. The event is part of the Fayetteville Library Summer Author Series. Schwartz’s story offers a portrait of a rock ‘n roll pioneer and his home town of
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